RCMP Watch

Winnipeg Free Press
A former RCMP clerk has been charged with criminal breach of trust and other charges in connection to the alleged theft of $173,000 from the Headingley Traffic Service Detachment, RCMP said today.
Kristina Marie Ostapowich, 31, is also charged with theft and fraud over $5,000.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between August 2004 [...]

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The Vancouver Sun
RCMP in British Columbia have launched a new feature entitled ‘Setting the Record Straight’ on their media relations website.
In a media release issued by RCMP ‘E’ Division spokesman Staff Sgt. John Ward, police said they intend to use the for-the-record feature to elaborate on or clarify information published in the media.

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An RCMP inspector in charge of the Prince Rupert detachment has been fined and disciplined by the force for failing to follow regulations while hunting moose in the Yukon.
Insp. Ray Noble improperly tagged a moose he had shot with a friend’s tag. He was fined $1,600 and barred from hunting in the area for an [...]

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Jeff Sallot, Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Members of the Commons public accounts committee say they fear senior Mounties covered up a nepotism scandal and the misappropriation of $3.1-million from the RCMP pension fund.
The evidence “looks bad” and the MPs are now wondering “was there a cover-up?” New Democrat David Christopherson said yesterday.

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CARY CASTAGNA, SUN MEDIA
SHERWOOD PARK — A senior citizen who suffered deep wounds in his lower leg when an RCMP dog mistakenly sunk its teeth into him at his home yesterday says he’s not angry at Mounties.
But Eddie Jober, 69, has plenty of scorn for the drunk-driving suspect police were chasing through his backyard at [...]

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Carly Weeks, CanWest News Service
Friday, February 23, 2007
OTTAWA - The federal privacy commissioner is squaring off against the RCMP for urging the government to adopt changes that would legally compel companies to give police personal information of employees and customers without their knowledge or consent - changes the office says would invade the privacy of [...]

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Village Voice
We knew damn well if Maher Arar went to Syria, he’d be tortured. It’s beneath the dignity of this country, a country that has always been a beacon of human rights, to send somebody to another country to be tortured . . . Let us not create more terrorism around the world by telling [...]

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Chronicle Herald
A rural municipality in Cape Breton is withholding its payment for RCMP service, saying it’s frustrated by delays in filling vacant positions.
Victoria County council wants the province to pressure the RCMP into providing a full complement of officers to cover the Baddeck detachment.

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