Frank Peebles (Prince George Citizen) -The RCMP has offered an apology to civilian employees who were harassed on the job by Prince George Supt. Dahl Chambers.
Letters have been received this week by the three civilian victims - Ken Corrigan, Linda Thompson and Sheri McLean-Smith - offering acknowledgment from the force that the wrongs happened [...]
Tags: Dudley Do- Right · Harassment within the RCMP · RCMP Oversight · Whistleblower
(Canadian Press) Vancouver, B.C. - The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says there will be a review of the use of foreign police in Canada after most of one of its complaint against the RCMP was upheld in a ruling by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.
The civil liberties group complained to the commission [...]
Tags: Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · RCMP Public Complaints Commission
Michael Tutton, Halifax, NS (Canadian Press) - A Halifax police officer faces a charge of causing a disturbance following allegations he started a fight with two young black men, but RCMP insisted Friday the fracas wasn’t sparked by a racial slur.
RCMP investigators said they could find no evidence that a racist taunt was made by [...]
Tags: Other Law Enforcement Agencies
Rosie Gillingham, St. John’s, NFLD (The Telegram) - The female RCMP officer who was acquitted of drunk driving charges almost six months ago has been charged again with the same offences and has been suspended from the force, Transcontinental Media has learned.
Const. Jacqueline Remillard of Conception Bay South was pulled over June 27 in St. [...]
Tags: Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Charged
Sarah Sacheli (Windsor Star) - A Windsor police constable pleaded guilty in Ontario court Wednesday to theft for stealing $425 from an undercover RCMP officer during a sting operation.
Traffic cop Michael Stephen Shannon, 40, was arrested Oct. 4, 2007, after taking the bait during an orchestrated vehicle stop.
Court was told Shannon was on his motorcycle [...]
Tags: Other Law Enforcement Agencies
(CBC) - Prince George’s top RCMP officer is in the news again, this time over an allegation that his office romance created a conflict of interest, according to a secret city hall report obtained by the CBC.
Last week, CBC reported that RCMP Supt. Dahl Chambers had been forced to apologize for harassment of three workers [...]
Tags: Dudley Do- Right · Mounties Investigating Mounties
Moncton, NB (Times and Transcripts) - Two days in December have been set aside for the preliminary hearing of a suspended Codiac RCMP corporal accused of committing sexual offences.
Cpl. Alain Boulianne was not present in Moncton provincial court yesterday morning, but was represented by defence lawyer James Letcher. He appeared before Judge Anne Jeffries, while [...]
Tags: Breach Of Trust · Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Charged
Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - While RCMP brass and its media relations division scrambled to keep from being “crucified” over Taser use and the death of a man at Vancouver’s airport, they also had to deal with an increasing barrage of complaints accusing officers of being everything from clowns to killers.
Email documents, released to The [...]
Tags: Attempted Cover Up · Death While In Custody · Excessive use of Force · Robert Dziekanski · Taser
Keith Fraser (Vancouver Province) - A Surrey Mountie believed that his estranged brother may be a person of interest in a September 2005 firebombing of the Port Mann detachment and used the RCMP computer databases to track him down.
The sensational disclosure was made in a ruling on an application heard by B.C. Supreme Court Justice [...]
Tags: Mounties Sued
Prince George’s top cop has been internally disciplined by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A long investigation into Supt. Dahl Chamber’s conduct with a former city employee has resulted in discipline, but not discipline that is publicly disclosed.
Several months ago the internal controversy resulted, as reported at the time by The Citizen, in an order [...]