RCMP Watch

Kim Bolan (CanWest News Service) - The body that investigates complaints against the RCMP has no power to prevent someone from being kicked out of the witness protection program or to review whether they were unfairly denied entry into it, the Air India inquiry heard Wednesday.
Paul Kennedy, chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints [...]

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Burnaby, BC (Mike Lloyd, NEWS1130) - A police cruiser has been involved in a deadly crash in Burnaby at the intersection of Kingsway and Royal Oak. It happened just before two this morning. A police cruiser was responding to what the RCMP is calling, a “priority call”, with lights and siren on.
The police car was [...]

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Newmarket, Ontario (Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press) - A former Toronto police officer who carried on a nine-year affair with his mistress before she ended up dead and concealed in the wall of his basement was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the February 2002 death of Linda Mariani.
It took a jury little more [...]

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(Canadian Press) - Police in Surrey are investigating the death of a man who was being held in the cell block at the local RCMP detachment.
Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesman Cpl. Dale Carr said 50-year-old Cecil Edward McKenna was found unconscious in the detention cell at 6 a.m. on Sunday.
McKenna was intoxicated when he was [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) — A former RCMP officer says life in the federal witness protection program can be so difficult he wouldn’t wish it on his worst enemy.
Geoff Frisby told the Air India inquiry the psychological strain of assuming a new identity and a new lifestyle can be even greater for members of ethnic or [...]

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(CBC News) - A Victoria man who recorded video of a Polish man being jolted with a Taser and dying at Vancouver International Airport has gone to court to get the recording back from police so he can release it to the public.
But Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation team told CBC News [...]

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Dean Pritchard (Sun Media) - A former Winnipeg cop who killed a mother in a car crash after a night spent partying with fellow officers was spared a jail sentence yesterday.
Judge Ray Wyant granted Derek Harvey-Zenk a two-year conditional sentence for dangerous driving causing death, upholding a controversial joint recommendation that outraged Crystal Taman’s family.
Wyant [...]

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(CBC News) - Nunavut legislators are pushing the RCMP to keep Inuktitut-speaking police officers in their communities, as one MLA says there aren’t enough officers able to speak with unilingual Inuit residents.
Tunnuniq MLA James Arvaluk said some Inuktitut-speaking RCMP officers have been transferred out of Nunavut.
Speaking in the legislative assembly Monday, Arvaluk said there is [...]

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(CBC News) - Police will conduct an internal review into the case of a 14-year-old boy who was held for 10 days in a central Labrador lockup while waiting for a court appearance.
The 14-year-old, who was convicted last week in Happy Valley-Goose Bay for breach of probation and possession of marijuana, was arrested earlier this [...]

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(Vancouver Province) - A man who recorded the Tasering of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski by RCMP at Vancouver International Airport, and his subsequent death, is suing the police to get his footage back.
Paul Pritchard agreed to lend his video camera and footage to the RCMP when they promised to make a copy and return it [...]

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