RCMP Watch

Kevin Bissett, Canadian Press
New Brunswick Attorney General T.J. Burke declined comment Wednesday on allegations of wrongdoing within the provincial RCMP.
At least two current and former Mounties in the province are among more than a dozen officers across the country who have alleged wrongdoing within the force, including abuse of power, harassment and the coverup of [...]

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Waterloo Record, Editorial
They serve on the streets in the small communities across the country. They enforce the law when in a cruiser or on foot. In Ontario and Quebec, they focus on special areas of policing such as drug cases. On Parliament Hill, as every tourist in Ottawa knows, they stand in [...]

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Kathryn May and Tim Naumetz, The Ottawa Citizen
A Mountie sergeant who wanted to widen an investigation into the misuse of money from the RCMP pension and insurance plans says one of the force’s senior officers muzzled the probe.
Staff Sgt. Mike Frizzell told a Commons committee yesterday that Assistant Commissioner David Gork told him the investigation [...]

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Tonda Maccharles, Toronto Star
Conservative government is dismissing calls for a public inquiry into the RCMP, saying the pending appointment of a new RCMP commissioner will fix what ails the force.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day yesterday said a broader public inquiry would be too costly and take too long.

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Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail
The Federal Court of Canada yesterday upheld a nascent criminal investigation into whether one of the force’s most senior officers perjured herself before a parliamentary committee while testifying about the force’s pension-fund scandal.
Last February, Deputy Commissioner Barbara George told MPs that she had nothing to do with the removal of a [...]

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Jim Brown, Canadian Press
The RCMP largely ignored the expertise of local police in dealing with the Vancouver Sikh community in the aftermath of the 1985 Air India bombing, a public inquiry has been told.
Don McLean, a former municipal constable who spent two years as a liaison officer with the community, testified yesterday that he wasn’t [...]

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CBC
Tales of harassment, spying and investigative coverups within the RCMP do not need to be heard before a public inquiry, the Conservative government said Tuesday, reasoning such an inquiry would be too costly and take too long when problems should be fixed now.
The government is standing firm on its decision after lawyer Bill Gilmour came [...]

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Canadian Press
The RCMP, already reeling from a series of headaches, has received a failing grade for “floundering badly” at answering information requests from Canadians.
In his first annual report as information commissioner, Robert Marleau gave the Mounties an “F” Tuesday on their efforts to comply with the Access to Information Act.

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Janis Warren, The Tri-City News
The case against a Coquitlam Mountie charged five years ago with assault with a Taser gun will be back in Port Coquitlam provincial court this fall.Monday, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a B.C. Supreme Court judge’s ruling ordering a new trial for Cpl. Russell Hannibal.

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John DeMings, NovNewsNow.com
An RCMP investigation supports complaints by two Digby women that they were sexually harassed by Wylie Grimm, former commander of the police force’s Digby detachment.
Both women were outside employees who worked from the RCMP detachment offices.

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