RCMP Watch

Ottawa (RCMP Press Release) - Today, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will be honouring eight police officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for acts of bravery. These eight RCMP officers along with several other members of Canadian police forces, emergency personnel and civilians are being invested [...]

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Michael Staples, Fredericton, N.B. (Daily Gleaner) - The delivery of RCMP services in New Brunswick is in the final stages of an extensive review, The Daily Gleaner has learned.
The review, which is being conducted internally by RCMP J Division, is examining ways the force can improve its frontline services.
Preliminary results are expected to be [...]

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Moncton, N.B. (Canadian Press) - A New Brunswick man has been sent for a five day psychiatric assessment after being charged in connection with an incident at the RCMP detachment in Moncton, N.B.
Police say they used a Taser to subdue a man armed with a knife after he lunged at an employee and then refused [...]

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Kirk Makin (Globe and Mail) - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a mandatory four-year sentence for an Alberta police officer found guilty in the fatal shooting of a suspect.
The important test case of mandatory minimum sentences involved an Alberta RCMP officer, Constable Michael Esty Ferguson, who inadvertently killed a drunken, unruly prisoner during [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - The B.C. Court of Appeal has thrown out drug charges against an accused drug runner, saying Mounties violated his Charter rights with their extensive search of his car.The court ruling says Mark Dreyer was making a drug delivery in a car driven by his sister when the police stopped them [...]

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(novanewsnow.com) Former Queens RCMP officer, Const. Addie MacCallum is going to trial Nov. 25-27 in Liverpool Provincial Court for alleged assaults against two Queens county men.
The Bible Hill detachment member has been charged with assaulting Terry Russell of Caledonia and Cory Peach of Port Mouton.
Const. MacCallum arrested Russell June 16, 2005 at his home. He [...]

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Whistler (CKNW AM980) - Whistler RCMP are apologizing to a man they say was wrongly identified in a series of suspect photographs.
Last Thursday, Mounties released photos of four people wanted on warrants for offenses in Whistler.
But, one of the photos of a Michael Wilson was a picture of another, innocent person of the same name.

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Victoria, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. Mountie who had sex on the job and used his uniform to draw dates will have to resign, an RCMP adjudication board decided Wednesday.
Const. Trent Richards admitted to having sex with women on at least 15 occasions while on duty at the rural detachment in Shawnigan Lake, B.C., [...]

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Linda Nguyen (Regina Leader-Post) - RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., are calling their decision to use a Taser on a man brandishing a butcher knife earlier this week as an example of a “positive way” to use the weapon.
Mounties arrived at a massage parlour Monday night after receiving a frantic 9-1-1 cellphone call from a female [...]

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Victoria, B.C. (Canadian Press) - An inquest has been set for this fall into the fatal police shooting of a 24-year-old man in Vernon last December.
Christopher Paul Klim was shot by Mounties when he refused to drop a knife and began to walk toward RCMP officers in his apartment.
The police had gone to his home [...]

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