RCMP Watch

(CBC News) - RCMP officers involved in the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski were also affected by the tragic incident and in need of support, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said Friday.
Campbell made the comments a day after CBC News published internal RCMP e-mails that indicated the premier was “highly complimentary” of the police force, despite [...]

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(Canadian Press) - The RCMP’s commissionner says recently released internal memos do not contradict the force’s publicly stated desire to investigate a controversial death related to the use of a Taser.
CBC News says that some of the RCMP e-mails it obtained through the Access to Information Act show a disdain for public scrutiny [...]

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Nelson Bennett (Canwest News Service) - For the last 18 months, Richmond RCMP Constable Khomphet (Kam) Khamphoune has lived with the tarnished image of a cop who allegedly stole from his detachment and had “links” to kiddie porn.
He was also painted in a Richmond provincial courtroom Thursday as a quasi-survivalist who liked to dress up [...]

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Rod Mickleburgh (Globe and Mail) - Nice to know Gary Bass, deputy RCMP commissioner out here, is a reader of The Globe and Mail, albeit not a happy one, apparently.
In one of his e-mails to Mountie boss William Elliott in Ottawa as the furor broke over the fatal RCMP tasering of Robert Dziekanski, Mr. Bass [...]

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The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP (CPC) today made public its 2007-2008 Annual Report, which was submitted to Parliament by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day. The Chair of the Commission, Paul Kennedy, renewed his call for credible and effective civilian RCMP oversight by strengthening the financial resources and legislative mandate of the CPC. [...]

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Yarmouth, N.S. (Canadian Press) - Angie Lawrence is 67 and has never attended a protest, but after hearing allegations that off-duty police officers insulted and provoked a fight with two black youths, she’s gathering a carload of black church women to attend an anti-racism demonstration on Monday in Digby, N.S.
The soft spoken former nursing home [...]

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Rob Shaw (Victoria Times Colonist) - The population of Vancouver Island keeps growing, but the size of its RCMP police forces won’t — at least for another year.
The Island’s top Mountie, Chief Supt. Rick Betker, said he’s not expecting to get any new officers when the province approves his next budget in coming months. He [...]

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Catherine Rolfsen (Vancouver Sun) - An RCMP officer is under investigation after she accidentally discharged her gun at her home Thursday morning.
“The bullet went through the wall and into the living space of the next-door neighbour where it lodged in the door frame of the bathroom,” said RCMP Const. Patrick Davies.
“The neighbours were home at [...]

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Brian Medel (Chronical Herald) - Halifax Regional Police have started an investigation into the conduct of some of their officers who were in Digby last month when a young black man got into an altercation with several off-duty cops.
Allegations of racist behaviour have surfaced involving off-duty policemen from Halifax and other parts of the province [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - A fired biker-gang investigator warned during settlement talks last year that if his wrongful dismissal case ever got to trial it would expose the dysfunctional relationship between the RCMP and B.C.’s municipal police.
“We expect to have several senior police officers willing to testify about the inability or unwillingness of RCMP [...]

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