RCMP Watch

Canadian Press
The RCMP will not meet its recruiting goal this year and is launching a new national campaign Monday to attract more young people to the force, The Canadian Press has learned.
The $800,000 advertising blitz is aimed at the 18-to-34 age group - potential recruits young enough to be the children of veteran officers who [...]

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Canadian Press
Parliament has legislative work to do to ensure that Canada’s police officers are not frustrated on the job and can get home safely, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Sunday.
Day spoke to thousands of police, their families and members of the public who gathered Sunday on Parliament Hill for the 30th annual memorial service [...]

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The Canadian Press
The RCMP will not meet its recruiting goal this year and is launching a national campaign today to attract more young people to the force.
The $800,000 advertising blitz is aimed at the 18-to-34 age group — potential recruits young enough to be the children of veteran officers who will be retiring in droves [...]

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Julie Horbal, Sun Media
A judge has reserved decision until Thursday in a he-said, she-said sexual assault trial involving two Mounties.
The two sides presented closing arguments yesterday, but Justice Glenn Joyal said he needs to re-examine the evidence and decide whether an “honest but mistaken belief” defence should come into play.
The accused, a 34-year-old officer stationed [...]

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RCMPWatch.com
On Sunday, September 30, 2007, thousands of police and peace officers from across the country will gather on Parliament Hill to honour colleagues who have died in the line of duty. Minister of Public Safety, the Honourable Stockwell Day will participate in the service. In the past year, 4 police and peace officers have made [...]

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Melissa Leong, National Post
A Navy Lieutenant, who has been honoured for his work with youth, is accused of paying for sea cadets to receive the services of prostitutes during a trip to Amsterdam.
Lieutenant Ralph Edwards, a cadet instructor and a veteran RCMP officer in Burlington was assigned to escort a group of Canadian Sea Cadets [...]

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Times & Transcript (Moncton, NB)
The most pertinent comment this newspaper has received related to the four arsons in the Salisbury region is that if the RCMP don’t take effective action soon, “another Grand Manan could develop,” a reference to citizens on that Island taking the law into their own hands to rid their community of [...]

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Julie Horbal, Winnipeg Sun
A night of alleged drunken sexual activity between two off-duty RCMP officers was consensual and not pre-meditated, the accused told court yesterday.
The 34-year-old male constable based out of Morris testified the complainant, a 24-year-old woman, did not object to repeated sexual contact, and eventually presented her naked body to him at a [...]

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Colleen Kimmett,  TheTyee.ca
Linda Bush said she learned a disturbing lesson in the weeks and months following her son Ian’s death at the barrel of an RCMP officer’s gun in 2005: justice is not always served when the police investigate their own.
The message was echoed by lawyers, civil rights advocates and even the former chair of [...]

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250 News
A Ft St James RCMP Constable, Curtis Barrett has been remanded until the first week of November 2007 charged with dangerous driving under the criminal code.
Barrett was charged after it is alleged a 23 year old Tachie Reserve woman was run over by a police vehicle driven by the constable.

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