Some information from internal police reports about investigations that are under review by the Special Investigations Unit will be made public, the Toronto Police Services Board announced Thursday.

But Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said he couldn’t promise that actual parts of that report would be released, just that the information contained within it would be available publicly.

He said information would be released by June 17, as requested by the TPSB.

Board Chair Andy Pringle explained in a letter sent to media that the reports “are used to review policy, procedures, service, officer conduct and training” and “to identify any gaps and recommend changes where necessary.”

Pringle said he backs the motion because he thinks it could help “strike the appropriate balance between the need for confidentiality and the importance of public disclosure, accountability and transparency.”

Saunders said officers’ names investigated by the SIU will be excluded and police lawyers will review the reports to find out what can be released without violations to existing laws.

After the shooting death of Andrew Loku, a husband and father who had just graduated from George Brown College’s construction program, there were protests from people who accused police of being quick-handed with their actions.

Police said they were called to Loku’s apartment building on July 5, 2015, after receiving reports of a man threatening to kill a woman with a hammer. Police arrived on the scene in the Caledonia-Fairbank neighbourhood, at Caledonia and Rogers Roads, just after midnight.

Loku approached the officers in a tight corner with a hammer in hand. Police shot him dead.

The SIU, an arms-length provincial agency that investigates cases where police are involved in a citizen’s death or injury, found that the officers did not commit any wrongdoing.

Activists with Black Lives Matter slammed the SIU’s findings and demanded the release of the names of the officers who were being investigated and the release of the full SIU report.

. In response, the province made part of the SIU report on Loku’s death public on April 29, although much of the information was redacted. They also promised to review how information from SIU reports is given to the public.

Toronto Mayor John Tory was also supportive of more transparency between police and the public.

“We’re in the midst right now of looking at a fundamental transformation of policing in this city,” he told reporters Thursday.