RCMP Watch

(CBC) - Vital communication centres that take calls from distressed people and dispatch police officers might be crippled by an earthquake or other disaster because there are no solid backup plans to keep them running, according to an internal RCMP audit.
The audit, completed last month, says the centres are also hampered by staff shortages, inconsistent [...]

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Summerland, B.C. (Canadian Press) - RCMP have charged one of their own, folllowing an investigation into an arrest in Summerland, B.C., last summer.
Police say an officer responded to a complaint at a local pub last Aug. 17 and arrested one man for being drunk in a public place.
They say later the same evening, it’s alleged [...]

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Paul Rutherford (Winnipeg Sun) - Nothing irritates me more than the immediate calls for cops’ heads as soon someone dies by their hands.
The second guessing of police officers’ actions is usually immediate and without foundation.
It’s often fuelled by the lack of or the carefully censored information released by the police themselves.
Case in point: Tuesday’s death [...]

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Winnipeg, MB (Canadian Press) - A 17-year-old youth who died after being hit by a Taser was a suspect in a theft, police said Wednesday.
An officer deployed an “electronic control device” when the teenager refused to comply with repeated directions to put down a knife, said Const. Jacqueline Chaput.
“That poses a threat to the officers, [...]

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Moncton, N.B. (Canadian Press) - A New Brunswick RCMP officer has been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
Cpl. Alain Bouliane, who headed Codiac detachment’s traffic division, has been suspended with pay since the allegations surfaced last fall.
The charges stem from alleged incidents four years ago.
A preliminary hearing date [...]

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James Foster, Moncton, N.B. (Times & Transcript) - A former Codiac Regional RCMP officer who molested his own young relatives over decades was handed a four-year term in federal penitentiary yesterday.
The name of the man, 52, is banned from publication by court order. When Crown attorney William Richards asked for the usual ban on the [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - A Whistler RCMP officer was docked five days’ pay after he punched another Mountie in the face in defence of a friend who was making advances on another officer’s wife during a fundraiser in Kamloops, B.C.
At his RCMP disciplinary board hearing this past April, Const. Devon Jones admitted to striking [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) -  A man died Tuesday after police used a Taser to subdue him, in what is believed to be the first such case in Winnipeg.
Witnesses told CTV Winnipeg the unidentified man, reportedly in his 20s, had been wielding a knife. But police spokesperson Const. Jacqueline Chaput would not confirm that report.
She said [...]

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Martin van den Hemel, Richmond, B.C. (Richmond Review) - A Richmond Mountie who was acquitted Monday afternoon on a charge of possessing stolen property must wade through new legal hot water.

The Richmond Review has learned that Khomphet Khamphoune, who was the subject of a child-pornography investigation that unearthed evidence that led to this trial, [...]

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(Windsor Star) - A 37-year-old man was found dead Saturday in an RCMP holding cell in northern Manitoba.
Police said the man was arrested for public intoxication Friday evening and taken to the detachment in Thompson, Man., where he was placed in a cell.
The next morning he was discovered dead.
His body has been sent to Winnipeg [...]

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