RCMP Watch

Jessica Leeder and Greg McArthur, Globe and Mail
Five whistle-blowers who jeopardized their careers trying to force the RCMP to investigate allegations of internal corruption, nepotism and mismanagement were quietly awarded the force’s highest honour in a closed ceremony this week.
Gathered with their families around a horseshoe-shaped table at an upscale Ottawa steakhouse Wednesday, the cadre [...]

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The Waterloo Record (Kitchener Ontario)
Both rank-and-file members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadians generally have reason to be appalled at what has happened to their once-proud national police force.
A report on the force by David Brown, former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, has confirmed the worst fears that have arisen about the [...]

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Canadian Press
The Mayerthorpe massacre. Maher Arar. The Air India bombing investigation. RCMP pensions.
The Mounties have suffered severe problems over the past few years that have eroded the confidence of RCMP officers in their leaders and threaten to hurt public confidence in the force, former senior officers say.
And they have little faith that a task force [...]

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Editorial, Toronto Star
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day was careful yesterday not to prejudice the task force that the Conservatives plan to appoint to overhaul the way the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is run. But he signalled clearly enough that the days of an all-powerful RCMP commissioner riding roughshod over subordinates are galloping to a close.
Prime [...]

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Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Opposition parties continued to press yesterday for a full public inquiry into the RCMP after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said he will convene a closed-door task force instead.
The government-appointed investigator into the Mounties’ pension-fund scandal, David Brown, concluded in a report issued Friday that the management of the force is [...]

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CBC News
The government has accepted all the recommendations from an investigation into the RCMP’s pension fund — a report that called for major changes to the force’s governance and culture, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Monday.
Day also agreed with special investigator David Brown, the former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, who rejected the [...]

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David Ljunggren, Reuters
Royal Canadian Mounted Police management and culture will be overhauled to address major flaws at the force, which twice in the past year has been damned by investigations , the government said on Monday.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day made clear to reporters that some senior Mounties would be removed but brushed aside calls [...]

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CTV.ca NewsThe government will be forming a task force to overhaul the embattled RCMP, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Monday.
“This is an organization with a proud history but history is built on how organizations can handle themselves in the present and that’s how they can assure themselves of a robust future,” Day told reporters [...]

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Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says he will act on most of the recommendations in a scathing report about the RCMP and its former commissioner, including one to set up a task force to overhaul the troubled national police force.
ay said Sunday that he favours a task force over a public [...]

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Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
A special investigator pinned much of the blame for the pension scandal rocking the RCMP on the autocratic leadership of former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and called for a review into the culture of the Mounties and how they are governed.
David Brown, the former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, said yesterday [...]

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