RCMP Watch

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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(Chilliwack Times Letters to the Editor)
Editor:
As the operations officer and acting officer in charge of the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment providing policing services to the City of Chilliwack, District of Kent/Agassiz, Village of Harrison Hot Springs, District of Hope and community of Boston Bar, I am compelled to respond to an article written by [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. - (Canadian Press) - The Polish government will be represented in the next phase of the Taser inquiry looking into the death of immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
The second phase of the Braidwood Inquiry starts in Vancouver on October 20, a little more than a year after Dziekanski died after being jolted with an RCMP [...]

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100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. Mountie has been convicted of assault with a Taser stemming from a police call to a pub in 100 Mile House.
Const. Dan Cameron will be sentenced at a later date for the December 2006 incident. Cameron and two other officers were called to a pub on [...]

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(UPI) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are at a loss as to why a civilian man in Nova Scotia has been receiving classified security alert messages.
The unidentified man’s pager has been getting about two security alerts a week since January, although all but the last one provided an area code, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. [...]

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Houston, B.C. (Canadian Press) - The lawyer for the family of a young man shot in the back of the head while in RCMP custody says he hopes a B.C. coroner’s jury will recommend that police never investigate their own in such situations.
“The focus of this inquest is to get a recommendation from the jury [...]

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Dan Arsenault and John Gillis (Chronical Herald) - A 29-year-old Brookfield man would likely be dead if not for an off-duty Mountie who risked his life to pull the injured man off Highway 102 near Halifax early Saturday morning.
Const. Ed Clarke of Enfield RCMP had just finished a 10-hour shift and was on his way [...]

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Kathy Coulombe, Montreal, QC (CJAD Radio) -  A former Mountie convicted of striking a 3-year-old child, won’t be locked-up.
Guy Charles faced a maximum18-month jail term, but got 3-months to be served in the community instead.
Charles hit the child in the face while he was the only adult present at his ex-wife’s daycare.
The incident happened in [...]

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Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - A man is dead after choking on a golfball-sized bag of crack-cocaine as Surrey RCMP tried to arrest him, making him the third person to die in their custody in the past six weeks.
Brandon Whitelaw, 22, was riding in a car with another man at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when [...]

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