RCMP Watch

Nadia Moharib, Sun Media
Mounties are trying to find out how an Emergency Response Team member ended up shooting and wounding a fellow-officer as they raided a home near Sundre on a search warrant for illegal firearms.The Mountie, from Calgary, is expected to make a full recovery after being shot in the lower leg from a [...]

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Elisabeth Johns , Standard-Freeholder (Cornwall, Ontario)
An RCMP inspector has filed a libel lawsuit against a couples’ therapist who sent a letter to his bosses claiming he is a “dangerous man” and a “narcissistic psychopath.”
Insp. Jean-Yves Lemoine, who is facing allegations he manipulated a junior officer’s wife into having an affair with him at disciplinary hearing, [...]

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Canadian Press
Labour leaders renewed their calls for an independent inquiry into police procedure during the North American Leaders’ Summit in Montebello, Que.
Unsatisfied with Public Security Minister Stockwell Day’s repeated rejections to call a public inquiry, the Quebec Federation of Labour joined the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada in demanding the inquiry.
The unions sent [...]

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RCMP officers failed to follow their own policies and were guilty of a “critical delay” in getting medical help for a northern Manitoba man who died in their care, an inquest has found.
Provincial court Judge Brian Colli released a 22-page report Wednesday on the October 2003 death of Sherrill Forbister in Norway House.
Colli said police [...]

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Dan Singleton, Calgary Herald
A male RCMP officer was rushed to hospital in Calgary on Thursday morning after being shot in the lower leg by a fellow officer during a raid on a rural home.
He is expected to make a full recovery, police said.
The officer, who has not been named, was wounded when officers stormed [...]

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Beverley Ware, Nova Scotia News
Clifford Gregory Lantz scrunched up his eyes, looked at his lawyer and mouthed the word “What!” — clearly surprised to have been convicted Tuesday of assaulting a Lunenburg County Mountie.
Cpl. Darren Galley had punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed the Mahone Bay man, who is in his mid-50s, and hit him in the [...]

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Jonathan Wooward, Vancouver sun
A man who was screaming and smashing windows on the main street of Fort St. John died while struggling with police early Monday.
The RCMP issued a statement about the death Tuesday, but did not identify the man except to say he was in his 30s.

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CBC News
A town councillor in Shediac says there aren’t enough RCMP officers on the street in the community.
But police say they are doing what they can and the town could review its contract with the Mounties or consider hiring private security.
Councillor Leo Doiron said he hears complaints about the local RCMP every day.

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Jonathan Woodward, Vancouver Sun
A man who was screaming and smashing windows on the main street of Fort St. John was killed by police as they tried to restrain him early Monday morning.
The Fort St. John RCMP did not release the identity or the age of the man in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon.
The RCMP were [...]

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August 27, 2007
Mr. Paul E. Kennedy
Chair, Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Mr Chair:
On Thursday, August 25, 2007, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) acknowledged in a statement that their agents had infiltrated protesters demonstrating during the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit on August 20, 2007 at Montebello, Quebec. This admission was [...]

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