RCMP Watch

CBC - July 28, 2006
Police did not respond immediately to a report of an explosive device in P.E.I. National Park last weekend because of a heavy volume of calls, the RCMP said Friday.
A hiker found a homemade bomb on Sunday in dense woods near Dalvay, but the RCMP did not go to the scene until [...]

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CBC - July 28, 2006
As RCMP investigate a bomb found in P.E.I. National Park, they will also address why 24 hours passed before they responded to the first call.
The peaceful tranquillity of the national park was broken Monday just before midnight when an RCMP bomb squad from Halifax blew up what they described as a [...]

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The Guardian - July 26, 2006
Homemade bomb disposed of Monday night, over 24 hours after the device was originally spotted.
DALVAY — A day after safely disposing of a homemade bomb found laying near a North Shore hiking trail Sunday, Island RCMP are trying to explain why it took them a full day to respond to [...]

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Robson Valley Times - July 26, 2006
When Sergeant Georgie Kenzie received a tip about a suspected crystal meth lab on 6th Avenue, she and her team put together an operation to end it.
According to Kenzie, it would have been the first meth lab bust for the North District RCMP. As it turns out, the tip [...]

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Eva Salinas, Globe and Mail, July 7, 2006
VANCOUVER — The robbery took place on a rural road, about three kilometres outside of Chemainus, a town of 3,900 tucked in along the Trans-Canada Highway between Victoria and Nanaimo.
The home is nestled along a residential stretch in the quiet, forested area, near a plant nursery and camping [...]

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July 6, 2006 - CBC Manitoba
It was standing-room only last night at the first East St. Paul council meeting since a series of CBC News stories uncovered problems with the Rural Municipality’s police force and the sudden, controversial firing of the municipality’s chief administrative officer.
The firing and reports of police misconduct brought dozens of residents [...]

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Tim Cook, Canadian Press via Canada.com, July 05, 2006
REGINA — The Attorney General of Canada has filed an application seeking a court order that could limit how closely the actions of federal justice officials can be examined by the public inquiry looking into David Milgaard’s wrongful murder conviction.
Federal lawyers say the issue is simply a [...]

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July 4, 2006 - CBC Manitoba
Pornographic material, some of it “very disgusting,” has been found on roughly half of the East St. Paul police department’s computers, according to a confidential report, CBC News has learned.
The report comes from a consultant who examined the contents of the police computers in February.
The Rural Municipality of East St. [...]

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The Daily Record (UK)
Justin Tree and David Connors are two Mounties who got their man - by marrying each other.
The pair became the first gay men in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to marry when they wed in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
They wore their dress uniforms to make their vows in front of a magistrate and [...]

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Waterloo, Ontario – A Waterloo regional police officer charged with a variety of sex-related offences is out on bail for a second time.
Robert Richards was released Friday under a 24-hour curfew with his brother and sister-in-law acting as sureties, meaning they will ensure he complies with his bail conditions, Crown prosecutor David Foulds said.
Richards was [...]

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