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	<description>Who is keeping them accountable?</description>
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		<title>Lawyer argues Mountie who had work sex with subordinate shouldn&#8217;t be demoted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Harassment within the RCMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Cooper (Vancouver Province) &#8211; A high-ranking B.C. Mountie who disgraced the force by having on-the-job sex with his subordinate has suffered gravely from “false accusations” of rape and should return to work with no demotion, a sanction hearing was told today.
Const. Susan Gastaldo and Staff Sgt. Travis Pearson were found guilty of having sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP hearings need independent oversight, says lawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CBC News) &#8211; The lawyer for a female British Columbia Mountie who accused her boss of sexual assault says RCMP disciplinary hearings should be subject to independent oversight.
Walter Kosteckyj says he is unhappy with the easy ride he believes the police force is giving Const. Susan Gastaldo&#8217;s superior, Staff Sgt. Travis Pearson.
Pearson admitted to using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP senior ranks hit with more exits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commissioner of the RCMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa (Toronto Star) &#8211; Another wave of departures has hit the senior ranks of the RCMP, the Star has learned.
Four top executives have left within weeks of the installment of Commissioner Bob Paulson, a Mountie known for his shoot-from-the lip style.
Some of the departures have already been cast as timely retirements, sources say.
However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B.C. police let ‘slam-dunk’ attempted murder case against Pickton slip away in 2000, inquiry hears</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/b-c-police-let-%e2%80%98slam-dunk%e2%80%99-attempted-murder-case-against-pickton-slip-away-in-2000-inquiry-hears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Pickton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoddy Investigations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, B.C. (National Post) &#8211; RCMP officers erred in an interview of Robert Pickton in 2000, in which Pickton and a female friend claimed he was attacked by a sex worker in a bloody 1997 knife fight.
Video of the January 2000 interrogation was shown for the first time Tuesday at the Missing Women Commission of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squamish staffer charged with stealing from RCMP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RCMP Employee Charged]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Vancouver Province) &#8211; A Squamish municipal employee working at the local RCMP detachment has been charged with theft.
Last spring it was determined that money collected for fingerprinting services at the Squamish RCMP detachment was not deposited at the bank.
On Feb. 3, 53-year-old Shelley Gatzke of Squamish, was charged with theft under $5,000.
It is alleged the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squamish RCMP employee charged with theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RCMP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrea Woo (Vancouver Sun) &#8211; An administrative employee at the Squamish RCMP detachment has been charged with theft after it was discovered money collected for fingerprinting services was not deposited at the bank.
Shelley Gatzke, 53, of Squamish, was charged with theft under $5,000 and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 29, said Sgt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountie docked pay for firing service pistol at home and into upstairs apartment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dudley Do-Right, D'oh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mounties Investigating Mounties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Ottawa Citizen) &#8211; It will likely be the last time RCMP Cst. Matt Slipp loads his service pistol at home, of all places.
Slipp has been docked five days pay for accidentally discharging his service pistol in his basement apartment a few years back. The bullet went through the ceiling, through a hardwood floor above, then lodged into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS The Canadian Press &#8211; ONLINE EDITION Retired officer told inquiry he kept his files on a serial killer in a safe</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/breaking-news-the-canadian-press-online-edition-retired-officer-told-inquiry-he-kept-his-files-on-a-serial-killer-in-a-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[External Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Morale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oversight of the RCMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Pickton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamsyn Burgmann, Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) &#8211; The RCMP&#8217;s former lead officer who was investigating serial killer Robert Pickton took precautions to safeguard his files over concerns they might vanish.
Mike Connor told the missing women&#8217;s inquiry that he had fingered Pickton as &#8220;the bad guy&#8221; for several years prior to Pickton&#8217;s February 2002 arrest and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP struggling to fill jobs, internal documents reveal</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-struggling-to-fill-jobs-internal-documents-reveal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-struggling-to-fill-jobs-internal-documents-reveal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lack of Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Derosa (Times Colonist) &#8211; Internal RCMP documents show the force scrambling to fill jobs in B.C. despite years of warnings that chronic understaffing is putting police and the public at risk.
One in 10 Mountie positions in B.C. sits empty, says a management report obtained by the Times Colonist. Jobs left unfilled due to medical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montrealer trying to sue RCMP for entrapment</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/montrealer-trying-to-sue-rcmp-for-entrapment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/montrealer-trying-to-sue-rcmp-for-entrapment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse By Mounties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mounties Sued]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Montreal, Q.C. (CTV Montreal) &#8211; A Montreal man who spent years in prison in Thailand is trying once again to sue the RCMP.
Alain Olivier first became involved with the RCMP in 1987, when he was a down-and-out drug addict living on the B.C. coast.
At the time he crossed paths with apparent crime boss and drug [...]]]></description>
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