RCMP Watch

Louise Dickson, Victoria, B.C. (Times Colonist) - He called himself “goodguy4444,” but the RCMP doesn’t see it that way.
The head of the Mounties in B.C., Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, is trying to dismiss Const. Trent Richards of the Shawnigan Lake detachment for having sex while on duty and using RCMP equipment — police cruisers and [...]

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Toronto, ON (National Post) - The former commissioner of the RCMP has lashed out at his old bosses, blaming a lack of government leadership for what he says is a growing gap between the demands on police and the resources allotted to them.
Giuliano Zaccardelli, who resigned as top Mountie a year ago, told the Senate [...]

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George MacVicar (Southern Gazette) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has a long history in Canada, nearing 100 years, following the merger of two older policing forces. The RCMP spawned from the merger, in 1920, of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (founded 1873) with the Dominion Police (founded 1868).
If you think of Canada, what often [...]

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Liverpool, N.S. (Canadian Press) - A Nova Scotia RCMP officer will go to trial in the fall on two counts of assault.
Const. Addie MacCallum is accused of assaulting Terry Russell and his friend Cory Peach at their home in Port Mouton, N.S., in June 2005. MacCallum’s lawyer enter pleas of not guilty to the charges [...]

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(CBC News) - RCMP in the Northwest Territories are investigating their use of a stun gun on a teenage girl at a youth detention centre in Inuvik last year.
The internal investigation into the March 27, 2007, incident at the Arctic Tern Young Offender Facility should be complete within a few weeks, RCMP spokesman Sgt. Larry [...]

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Ottawa (United Press International) - A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police informant has likened his contact with the police to an abusive marriage, saying they treated him worse than a criminal.
Paul Derry claims to have infiltrated the Hells Angels only to be lied to by the Mounties, Canwest News Service reported Sunday.
Derry, whose testimony helped [...]

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(CBC) - The RCMP’s provincial sexual predator team is deeply underfunded and is being shut down, according to an internal police memo, but B.C.’s solicitor general denies that will happen.
The RCMP memo, dated Jan. 31 and released Thursday by Mike Farnworth, public safety critic with the B.C. New Democratic Party, says the Integrated Sexual Predator [...]

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Danel McHardie, Fredericton, N.B. (Telegraph-Journal) - Almost 33 years after being convicted of murder, Erin Michael Walsh will finally get a chance to clear his name after the federal and provincial ministers of justice agreed Friday that he is likely a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
This is the first time in New Brunswick’s history [...]

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(Montreal Gazette) - A former Sûreté du Québec detective is to appear in court April 22 to face drunk driving and hit and run charges, Montreal police Constable Lynn Labelle said last night. The man, 56, was spotted late Thursday driving a civilian car erratically in the city’s east end, she said. He failed [...]

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New Glasgow, N.S. (Halifax Chronicle Herald) - A Pictou County Mountie charged with stealing gasoline last year has been accused of shoplifting from a New Glasgow department store.
New Glasgow police charged RCMP Const. Blair Francis Gorman, 42, with theft under $5,000 this week after investigating a weekend complaint from the town’s Wal-Mart store.
The suspended officer [...]

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