RCMP Watch

More than 100 RCMP officers across Canada were found guilty of misconduct during the last two years for offences ranging from having sex in a cop car and surfing Internet porn on the job to drunk driving, sexual assault and abusing prisoners.
Records obtained by Sun Media under Access to Information reveal 106 cases where Mounties [...]

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CBC.ca
To save money, the Atlantic provinces should set up their own regional police force, says a critic of the RCMP.
Paul Palango, a Nova Scotia investigative reporter and author of The Last Guardians, a book on the problems within the RCMP, told CBC News a regional force would not only be cheaper, but just as efficient.
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Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press
The RCMP paid a communications consultant almost $25,000 in taxpayers’ money to help Giuliano Zaccardelli prepare for parliamentary hearings that ultimately led to the commissioner’s resignation.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the Mounties hired Ottawa firm McLoughlin Media at a cost of more than $400 an hour in advance of Zaccardelli’s [...]

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CBC.ca
The RCMP says it will consider recommendations made by a coroner’s inquest into the death of Kevin Geldart as soon as possible.
Geldart died after police used a Taser to subdue him in a downtown Moncton bar on May 5, 2005.
Several of the inquest’s 25 recommendations are aimed at police. RCMP Chief Superintendent Jim Payne says [...]

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Jim Brown, Canadian Press
Legal reforms may be needed to promote co-operation between CSIS and the RCMP and make sure terrorist suspects can be successfully prosecuted, says the head of the Air India inquiry.
Justice John Major suggested yesterday federal law could be rewritten to make it easier for intelligence officers to pass along evidence of criminal [...]

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Betty Ann Adam,The StarPhoenix
Four days before Christmas, a Black Lake man found himself stranded in La Ronge, 516 kilometres from home, with no money and no place to stay, after RCMP refused to return him to his community, where they had arrested him two days earlier.
James Cook, 38, said he didn’t have $110 for a [...]

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