RCMP Watch

22 April 2006 - Winnipeg Sun 
WINNIPEG, CANADA – A veteran Mountie who’s been on the job 19 years has been suspended from the Selkirk RCMP amid allegations of theft and breach of trust.
Const. Nuno Alvares Camara has been charged with three counts of theft of property under $5,000 and two counts of breach of trust.
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19 Apr 2006 - CBC News
Justice Canada has decided not to prosecute an RCMP officer in Yellowknife, even though a judge ruled he attacked a man and used excessive force.
In an e-mail statement issued Tuesday, Justice Canada provided little explanation for its decision to not charge Const. Scot Newberry.
In a court ruling in April 2005, [...]

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Vanese M. Ferguson- Saskatoon Home Page - 2006-04-18
An RCMP officer is one of two people charged after a fatal accident in Lloydminster.
In fact, the drivers of both vehicles face charges; the 37 year old officer is in court today (Tues) charged with unreasonable speed while the 74 year old driver of the other vehicle will [...]

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Hamilton Spectator - April 18, 2006
A former RCMP cadet from Toronto, who still dreams of being a Mountie, has won a human rights tribunal hearing on his claim that he was rejected from the force because of discrimination.
Ali Tahmourpour’s complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission that he was racially harassed as a cadet at [...]

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2006-04-18 - SaskatoonHomepage.ca
Vanese M. Ferguson
An RCMP officer is one of two people charged after a fatal accident in Lloydminster.
In fact, the drivers of both vehicles face charges; the 37 year old officer is in court today (Tues) charged with unreasonable speed while the 74 year old driver of the other vehicle will go to court [...]

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The RCMP should refocus on its role as a law enforcement agency, rather than acting as a government department, according to Bureaucrats in Uniform: The Politicization and Decline of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, released today by The Fraser Institute.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police advertises itself as Canada’s national police service, an organization of excellence, [...]

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Apr 12 2006 - CBC News
Justice Canada is being advised not to charge a Yellowknife police officer that a judge ruled attacked a man outside a bar in the city.
The Alberta Justice Department concludes it’s unlikely that Cst. Scot Newberry would be convicted if charged, and that a trial would be very expensive and not [...]

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