RCMP Watch

Brennan Clarke, Victoria News
Officer allegedly handled known drug user roughly
Allegations that a Victoria police officer roughed up a drug addict inside a McDonald’s restaurant earlier this month have sparked a criminal investigation.
Chief Paul Battershill said Wednesday his detachment received a complaint alleging that excessive force was used by an officer who was called to the [...]

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Cairns, The Globe and Mail
The biggest probe of police corruption allegations in Canadian history charged only half of the officers who were suspected of breaking the law, The Globe and Mail has learned.
Six Toronto police officers faced 22 criminal charges when the probe - headed by then-staff-superintendent John Neily of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [...]

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Neal Hall, CanWest News Service
The RCMP “tailored and targeted” their efforts in a bid to nail two former British Columbia government aides accused of accepting bribes involved the sale of B.C. Rail, and failed to properly probe a close relationship between a lobbyist and a former deputy finance minister, a defence lawyer alleged yesterday.
Kevin [...]

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Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
A senior Mountie contradicted the testimony of suspended Deputy Commissioner Barbara George yesterday when he told MPs she asked him to remove a key investigator from the Ottawa police probe into the misuse of the RCMP’s pension and insurance funds.
The testimony of Assistant Commissioner Darrell LaFosse is contrary to what Deputy [...]

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250 News
The  family of Kevin St. Arnaud, the young man shot to death by  an RCMP officer in Vanderhoof in December of 2004,  has mixed feelings on the news the Public Complaints Commissioner is expanding his investigation.   (See Chair of Complaints Commission Revises St. Arnaud Probe)
(at left,  Kevin’s mother, Delores Young, and step father, Brian [...]

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250 News
The Chair of the  RCMP Public Complaints Commission, Paul E. Kennedy, has added another  element to his investigation related to the shooting death of Kevin St. Arnaud in Vanderhoof in December of 2004.  He  now wants to look at the way police investigated the shooting
Kennedy issued this ammendment this morning:
“On March 15, 2006, I [...]

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CTV.ca News Staff
One of the first RCMP officers to blow the whistle on the force’s pension fund scandal says he was punished for speaking out, while crucial documents relating to the fund are missing, a Commons committee has heard.
Former assistant commissioner Bruce Rogerson broke down in tears Monday as he recounted his treatment after raising [...]

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Kathryn May, CanWest News Service
Suspended RCMP Deputy Commissioner Barbara George can’t be investigated by the Mounties for perjury because her testimony to MPs is protected by parliamentary immunity, her lawyers told the Federal Court on Thursday.
Lawyer David Scott asked Federal Court Judge Daniele Tremblay-Lamer to halt both the internal and criminal investigations the RCMP recently [...]

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Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star
Accusations of cover-up and wild contradictions between high-level RCMP officers over mismanaged pension funds are hurting the Mounties’ image, admits the acting RCMP Commissioner Bev Busson.
But Busson told a parliamentary committee yesterday a lot of the bitterness playing out in public is the result of conflicts that could have been avoided had [...]

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Kathryn May, CanWest News Service
A senior Mountie told MPs yesterday that suspended deputy commissioner Barbara George asked him to remove a key investigator from the Ottawa police probe into the misuse of the force’s pension and insurance funds.
The testimony yesterday of assistant commissioner Darrell LaFosse contradicted Deputy Commissioner George, who is at the centre of [...]

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