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.
He [...]
Entries from April 2006
Mountie Under Cloud
April 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: RCMP
Yellowknife RCMP officer won’t be prosecuted
April 19th, 2006 · No Comments
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, [...]
Tags: Abuse By Mounties
RCMP Officer Charged
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Mounties Charged · RCMP
Ex-RCMP cadet wins hearing on rejection
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Abuse Of Mounties · Human Rights · RCMP
RCMP Officer Charged
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: RCMP
The Fraser Institute: Media Release; RCMP’s Effectiveness Damaged by Politicization, According to New Study
April 12th, 2006 · No Comments
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, [...]
Tags: Lack of Resources · Law Enforcement · Political/Government Interference or Involvement · RCMP
N.W.T. gets second opinion not to charge Mountie
April 12th, 2006 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Abuse By Mounties · RCMP