RCMP Watch

Canadian Press, June 27, 2006
MONTREAL (CP) - A city police officer who worked at the airport was charged Monday with drug trafficking, money laundering and breach of trust.
Pierre Goulet, an officer who has been on the force for about 14 years and worked at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, was arrested earlier Monday after a [...]

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The Ottawa Citizen - June 24, 2006
An Ottawa police officer accused of hitting a motorist with his flashlight and swearing at him appeared at a disciplinary hearing yesterday.
Const. Jacky Lord, 28, is charged with two counts of discreditable conduct and one count of unlawful exercise of authority, following an incident in October 2004.
Maxwell Mcatshelwa, 68, [...]

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Jun. 24, 2006 - CANADIAN PRESS
CALEDON, Ont. — A veteran provincial police officer is facing two charges after allegedly pointing his firearm at a colleague.
Thirty-seven-year-old Const. Sanjiv Parashar of Brampton, Ont., was arrested today and appeared in court to face charges of pointing a firearm and assault with a weapon.
The alleged incident occurred yesterday; no [...]

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Lloydminster Meridian Booster - John B. Spigott - June 23, 2006
Highway deaths are up in Saskatchewan almost 70 per cent from last year, and the Lloydminster Rural RCMP say the Midwest is fortunate numbers aren’t higher than they are.
“For this period of time last year we had four and this year we’ve only had one,” [...]

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Canadian Press - June 20, 2006
VANCOUVER (CP) - A former police officer who once ran the department’s school-liaison program faces child pornography charges.
John Dragani has been charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of accessing child pornography. Dragani, who was a sergeant, was suspended without pay last year until he [...]

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Jun 16 2006 - CBC
A plan to move the RCMP into bigger and more modern headquarters in Ottawa has been shelved following accusations that the real-estate deal had been sealed with the help of a key Conservative lobbyist.
Last March, the Conservative government signed a letter of intent with Minto Developments in Ottawa to rent [...]

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Globe and Mail - Karen Howlett - June 16, 2006
Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara scored another legal victory yesterday after federal prosecutors decided not to appeal a court ruling that vindicated him in connection with a probe into Royal Group Technologies Inc.
Sean Hamilton, a spokesman for Mr. Sorbara, said his office was told yesterday that [...]

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Jun 15 2006 - CBC News
A judge has harshly criticized a Labrador RCMP officer who waited six hours to investigate a sexual assault complaint.
A Nain man was charged with the crime last fall. He was acquitted in May after Supreme Court Judge Robert Fowler ruled there was reasonable doubt of his guilt.
The source of that [...]

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Globe and Mail - Bill Curry - 13 June 2006
The RCMP demanded $1.6-million in fees from a journalist who had filed an access to information request even though the question could have been answered with a common computer program.
The finding by Access to Information Commissioner John Reid is contained in his annual report to Parliament, [...]

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Canadian Press - 13 June 2006
Victoria — Solicitor-General John Les yesterday played down a report that B.C. does not have enough RCMP officers, saying a confidential 2005 government briefing note outlined a situation that has since changed.
Mr. Les said that since then, the government has managed to balance the budget and find extra resources. He [...]

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