RCMP Watch

Canadian Press
The prime suspect in the 1985 Air India bombing admitted to a role in the attack years later under questioning by Indian police, a public inquiry has been told.
But Talwinder Singh Parmar, head of the militant Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa, reportedly insisted, during his 1992 interrogation, that he was a minor player and [...]

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Canadian Press
Families of young men killed in police custody say they want a civilian agency investigating such deaths, not other cops.
Linda Bush, whose son Ian Bush was shot by a Mountie in October 2005, is among those participating Monday in a public forum hosted by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

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Chad Skelton, CanWest News Service
An RCMP disciplinary board has fined a Kamloops officer two days’ pay after he punched a diabetic man in the head because he thought, incorrectly, that the man was driving drunk.
In a recent decision, the board found Const. Burke Huschi used “excessive force” without first investigating the circumstances of the situation.

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Jim Brown, Canadian Press
More than two decades after Air India Flight 182 was blown from the sky, a public inquiry is set to hear about a purported confession by the prime suspect in the 1985 bombing.
Talwinder Singh Parmar, head of the militant Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa, was arrested shortly after the attack, but the [...]

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Stephanie Waddell, Whitehorse Star
A former Yukon RCMP officer has been sentenced to 28 days in jail after being convicted of uttering a threat to a current member of the Whitehorse detachment.
Visiting territorial court judge Donald Luther handed down the sentence Thursday afternoon after finding Marcell Blackwell guilty of the charge.

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Kim Bolan, The Vancouver Sun
The watchdog monitoring Canada’s spy service wanted to hold an inquiry in 1989 into the agency’s conduct in the Air India bombing, but was shut down by the federal government.
Ron Atkey, a prominent lawyer who chaired the Security Intelligence Review Committee, revealed at the Air India inquiry yesterday he wanted major [...]

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Kim Bolan, National Post
Canada’s former top spy bluntly told the Air India inquiry Friday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service did nothing wrong when agents erased hundreds of recorded wiretaps of key bombing suspects in 1985.
“Who cares quite frankly if we destroyed the tapes? I know the B.C. Crown cares. I know the RCMP cares [...]

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CBC News
The RCMP has not been keeping track of all its national security criminal investigations, a recent internal audit says, as the NDP accused the force of “incompetence.”
The report, which was published in July, found that RCMP headquarters was in the dark about several national security investigations opened by its own divisions, and also suffered [...]

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Bill Curry, Globe and Mail
The federal government delayed an investigation into how CSIS handled the Air India file partly out of fear that new revelations would drive up the cost of settling related lawsuits, an inquiry heard Thursday.
Ron Atkey, who chaired the Security Intelligence Review Committee overseeing the spy agency from 1984 to 1989, told [...]

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(Digital Journal) When Canada’s national police threw around the statistic of $30 billion as the annual losses from counterfeiting, no one debunked the claim. Until now. A law professor has discovered that Canadian cops are relying on shady sources to support this data.
Fear mongering is alive and well in Canadian counterfeiting claims. Although authorities like [...]

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