Ontario's ombudsman wants the power to look into all three of the province's police oversight bodies, not just the Special Investigations Unit.

It's part of ombudsman Paul Dube's submission to Ontario's independent police oversight review, which has a broad mandate to recommend ways to enhance accountability and transparency.

The only police oversight agency currently within the ombudsman's jurisdiction is the SIU, which investigates when police are involved in incidents of serious injury or death.

But Dube says his office should also have the power to probe the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission (OCPC), as well as municipal police services boards.

The ombudsman's office has received 184 complaints about the OIPRD and the OCPC in the past four years.

Dube says, "the time has come to jettison the historic anomaly" that sets those two bodies apart from the SIU.