RCMP Watch

(RCMP Press Release) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“the RCMP”) hereby announces the reinstatement of D/Commr. Barbara George who will be returning to active duty on November 28, 2007. D/Commr. George will undertake a number of assignments until the commencement of a period of education leave as had been previously agreed.
The RCMP wishes to [...]

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Kyle Harland, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - Linda Bush has had more than two years to think about how the police failed her after an RCMP officer shot and killed her 22-year-old son on Oct. 29, 2005.
That night, her son Ian Bush stood outside the local hockey arena in Houston, holding a beer. When [...]

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Amanda Vaughan, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Northern News Services) - Despite the controversy brewing over the use of Tasers by police elsewhere in the country, they’re seldom used here in Yellowknife, according to the RCMP.
According to Sgt. Victor Steinhammer, in the last three-and-a-half months there has only been one reported discharge of a Taser in the [...]

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Kathryn May (Ottawa Citizen) - Barbara George, the deputy commissioner suspended from the RCMP in the fallout over the force’s pension scandal, gets her badge back and goes back to work today.
The 30-year veteran, who has been suspended for eight months, is expected to return to work where she will find out what her new [...]

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Kathleen Harris (Sun Media) - The RCMP is grappling with exploding costs associated with injured, sick and stressed-out members.
An internal report on the future of disability programs and services for RCMP and their families, dated June 1, 2006 and obtained by Sun Media, reveals disability pension and treatment costs have risen “dramatically” in the past [...]

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(Vancouver Province) - A B.C. RCMP constable once investigated in a notorious sex scandal is suing top-ranking members of his own police force, prosecutors and several cabinet ministers for more than $1 million.
Const. Joseph Dale Kohut demanded at least $1.05 million in damages in recompense for a “particularly aggressive” and “malicious” investigation by the RCMP [...]

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Halifax, N.S. (Canadian Press) - A mentally ill man who died 30 hours after he was shocked with a stun gun at police headquarters in Halifax had to be subdued twice by correctional officers just before he died at a nearby jail, a senior corrections official confirmed Monday.
Howard Hyde, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in his [...]

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Vancouver (Global News) - The Canadian Border Services Agency promised sweeping changes to its treatment of international arrivals Monday as it released its internal report into the Taser incident that ended with the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
The CBSA promised more cameras, improved interpreter services and the option of more patrols and security checks [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - Former RCMP commissioner Norm Inkster acknowledged the force put a positive spin on its relations with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, soft-pedalling conflicts with the spy agency during a 1992 review of the Air India bombing.
“It didn’t serve any organization well, whether the RCMP or CSIS, to be criticizing one another,” [...]

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Rod Mickleburgh, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - Canada Border Services officials are to break their long silence today and finally disclose what happened to Robert Dziekanski during the 10 hours he spent in the immigration area of Vancouver airport, before the agitated Polish immigrant was tasered by police, dying moments later.
The information seems [...]

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