RCMP Watch

Sun Media
Vancouver police arrested a Richmond RCMP officer outside a Vancouver nightclub after a call for help involving a domestic assault yesterday morning about 2 a.m.
Const. Jason Ing, 36, was charged with assault after the early morning altercation.
Richmond RCMP will conduct an internal investigation of its officer, who they say is a Vancouver resident.

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Kathryn May, CanWest News Service
A senior Mountie dropped another bombshell at a parliamentary inquiry when he told MPs suspended deputy commissioner Barbara George asked him to pull off a key investigator from the Ottawa police probe into the misuse of the force’s pension and insurance funds.
The testimony Wednesday of assistant commissioner Darrell LaFosse contradicted George, [...]

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Josh Pringle,CFRA
The RCMP pension and insurance fund scandal reportedly dates back to 1995.
Sources tell CTV News that the insurance plan problems go back 12 years
CTV News reports that the alleged misspending was several million dollars higher than originally thought.
Sources say the House of Commons public accounts committee will be told the misuse began a full [...]

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Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service
Two former Liberal cabinet ministers distanced themselves from the RCMP pension scandal when they appeared before a Commons committee Monday.
Anne McLellan, a former public safety minister, and Reg Alcock, a former Treasury Board President, were called before the public accounts committee to explain when they knew about the alleged misuse of [...]

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Carly Weeks, CanWest News ServiceThe RCMP deputy commissioner recently suspended from the force as a result of her alleged role in the ongoing scandal involving the Mounties’ pension fund insisted on her innocence and said she believes the truth will eventually exonerate her from wrongdoing in a nationally televised interview aired Sunday.
“I don’t feel I’m [...]

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Carly Weeks, CanWest News ServiceOnly two-thirds of Canadians say they have confidence in the upper ranks of the RCMP to provide ethical, sound leadership, according to a survey released today as the former public safety minister prepares to be grilled at a Parliamentary committee over an ongoing scandal involving the Mounties’ pension fund.
Although the majority [...]

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CTV.ca News
CTV News has learned that new allegations are about to be made in the RCMP pension and insurance scandal.
Sources tell CTV News that the problems with the insurance plan go back more than 12 years and that the misspending was higher by several million dollars.
The House of Commons public accounts committee will be told [...]

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Camille Bains, Canadian Press
The RCMP deceived the public by connecting the evils of organized crime and drugs in British Columbia to a raid on the provincial legislature even though two former government aides whose offices were searched had nothing to do with such crimes, a lawyer says.
Kevin McCullough told B.C. Supreme Court yesterday that the [...]

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AM770CHQR
The interim commissioner of the RCMP says her replacement must come from within the force.
In her first interview on calls for an outsider to take the helm of the RCMP, Commissioner Bev Busson says there’s no one better qualified than a mountie. Busson, speaking exclusively to QR77 News, says a civilian cannot understand the dangers [...]

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Canadian Press
A former RCMP officer working in Langley, B.C., has received a one-day jail sentence and probation after pleading guilty to trying to lure underage girls on the Internet.
Adam Jonathan Clarke, 24, was scheduled to go on trial in June but elected to plead guilty.
Besides the one-day jail term, Clarke was put on probation for [...]

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