RCMP Watch

Brodie Fenlon and Omar El Akkad (Globe and Mail) - Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli approved the release of information about a criminal probe into the income trust leak in the middle of the 2006 federal election campaign and directed that a press release name Ralph Goodale, then Liberal finance minister, an RCMP watchdog report [...]

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(Toronto Star Editorial) - Public outrage over the death last year of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver International Airport after RCMP officers jolted him with a Taser should have prompted Canada’s national police force to become more open about its use of the high-voltage stun guns.
Instead, a joint investigation by The Canadian Press and the [...]

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New Glasgow, N.S. (Canadian Press) - A Mountie from Pictou County has pleaded not guilty to a charge of shoplifting.
Const. Blair Francis Gorman was charged last month with theft under $5,000 week after New Glasgow police investigated a complaint from a Wal-Mart store.
The 42-year-old was not in court today, but was represented by his lawyer.

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Theophilos Argitis and Greg Quinn (Bloomberg) - Canada’s federal police may have contributed to the former Liberal Party government’s defeat in the 2006 election by disclosing its plans for a criminal probe during the campaign, a complaints body said.
“I don’t know personally if this action was the one that impacted directly upon the change of [...]

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Omar El Akkad, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - Months before Giuliano Zaccardelli resigned as RCMP commissioner in the wake of the force’s involvement in the Maher Arar case, the RCMP was closely monitoring calls in the media for the commissioner to quit.
Mr. Zaccardelli’s resignation from the force on Dec. 6, 2006, has been closely linked [...]

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Meagan Fitzpatrick, Ottawa (Canwest News Service) - Battered and bruised from a series of scandals, the RCMP could take another embarrassing hit to its reputation today when the force’s public complaints commissioner releases his report on the Mounties’ controversial launch of a criminal investigation into the federal Finance Department in the middle of the [...]

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Robert Koopmans, Kamloops, B.C. (Kamloops Daily News) - The security of RCMP computers used to process evidence for a looming multimillion-dollar trial was breached from outside the agency, exposing sensitive files to the possibility of theft and tampering, Crown documents reveal.
The police computers were also used to view pornography and download music and illegal software, [...]

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(Vancouver Sun) - To say that Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers have been involved in a number of controversial incidents is to put it mildly.
From several questionable shooting deaths in British Columbia to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski after being Tasered at Vancouver International Airport, these incidents have led many organizations, including The [...]

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Ottawa (GOC / RCMP Press Release) - On March 20, 2008, the RCMP released 10,807 pages in response to several Access to Information requests on the use of Conducted Energy Weapons (CEW’s). The release contained information from CEW Usage Reports (RCMP Form 3996) completed in the period November 2004 to December 2007.
As has been noted [...]

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(North Bay Nugget) - The RCMP fended off increasing attacks Wednesday, blaming federal information and privacy laws for its move to strip public Taser reports of crucial details.
Sgt. Sylvie Tremblay says the Mounties released “all the information that could be provided” under the Access to Information Act when it disclosed newly reclassified and heavily censored [...]

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