RCMP Watch

Josh Pringle (CFRA) ) - The Canada Border Services Agency is being ordered to implement quick changes at border points.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has directed the agency to increase surveillance cameras and translation services for travellers and those waiting to meet them.
The agency issued an internal report on Monday with a series of recommendations.

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Kim Bolan (Vancouver Sun) - Urgent legislative changes are needed to improve the information flow between CSIS and the RCMP to keep Canadians safe from an increasing terrorist threat, former RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told the Air India inquiry Friday.
Zaccardelli said many of the same problems between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - Canadian law restricts the flow of information between the Mounties and Canada’s spy agency, putting Canadians at greater risk of another terrorist attack, says former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli.
And with the threat “at Canada’s doorstep,” the risk of an attack is greater today than it was more than two decades ago when [...]

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Bill Curry, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - The relationship between the RCMP and Canada’s spy agency is ”almost unworkable” and must be dramatically changed, former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told the Air India inquiry Friday.
Speaking freely nearly one year after leaving the force, Mr. Zaccardelli said many of the problems that plagued the investigation into [...]

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Andy Ivens (Vancouver Province) - An RCMP watchdog has launched a Canada-wide review of all cases in which Mounties investigated themselves in cases of serious injury or death since 2002.
Paul Kennedy, the chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, made the announcement yesterday while finding no fault with the RCMP in the [...]

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Jessica Leeder and Caroline Alphonso, Toronto, Ontario ( Globe and Mail) - A federal Commons committee set to explore a string of deaths after taser use will expand its probe to include relationships the stun gun manufacturer has with Canadian officials, members said yesterday.
That will include a look at the relationship between Taser International and [...]

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(CBC News) -Rankin Inlet North MLA Tagak Curley is demanding the Nunavut government look into what he called the excessive use of a Taser by RCMP, alleging that police used the stun gun on one of his constituents 13 times during an arrest.
As a result of being shocked by the Taser that many times, Curley [...]

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Vancouver (Canadian Press) - Four police officers monitored Robert Dziekanski’s breathing and pulse after he was shot with a Taser and fell to the floor at Vancouver International Airport, an RCMP spokesman said Friday.
“Breathing and pulse and consciousness were present at that time,” said Cpl. Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which is [...]

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(CBC News) - The Nova Scotia Liberals want every police officer and jail guard in the province to receive training in how to deal with people suffering from a mental illness.
The idea comes from the Canadian Mental Health Association, but Liberal MLA Michel Samson is pleased to champion the cause.
“We’re seeing too many examples of [...]

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(Vancouver Sun) - Good afternoon everyone. Thanks for taking the time to see us today.
My name is Alistair Macintyre and I am an Assistant Commissioner with the RCMP. My normal job is the Officer in Charge of Criminal Operations for British Columbia, but this week I am also the Acting Deputy Commissioner for the Pacific [...]

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