RCMP Watch

(Sun Media) - A former RCMP employee at Headingley’s traffic services detachment has pleaded guilty to one count of theft after using a federal government credit card to pay for a $100,000-plus personal spending spree.
Kristina Marie Ostapowich, 32, is expected to be sentenced later this spring.
Additional charges of fraud, criminal breach of trust and breach [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - A national union has lodged a formal complaint with Quebec’s police ethics commissioner over the actions of undercover police provocateurs at last year’s summit of North American leaders.
But the goal of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is a full federal inquiry into what they see as a gross [...]

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Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]

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(CBC News) - MPs voted Thursday to find the RCMP’s deputy commissionerin contempt of Parliament, accusing her of misleading the House of Commons with the testimony she provided into the so-called pension scandal.
The motion to find Barbara George in contempt was introduced by Liberal Shawn Murphy, who heads the public accounts committee that heard her [...]

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Jessica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie who could be cited for contempt of Parliament says she has been misunderstood by a parliamentary committee that has been misled by RCMP whistleblowers.
Deputy Commissioner Barbara George testified under oath before the House of Commons public accounts committee three times last year in an effort [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - An RCMP disciplinary board has docked a B.C. officer 10 days pay after it found him guilty of “abuse of authority” for using his position as a police officer to help his girlfriend leave the scene of an accident.
The panel also found Const. Richard Jaques neglected his duties on four [...]

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Mary Moszynski, Fredericton, NB (Canadaeast News Service) - An independent report examining the infamous Kingsclear sexual abuse scandal says there is no evidence RCMP attempted a cover-up for a member of its own force who faced allegations of criminal activity.
However the report highlighted a number of shortcomings in the RCMP’s investigations, including shoddy note-taking and [...]

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Canadian Press
A member an RCMP major crime unit in Nova Scotia faces charges including theft and fraud.
Const. Blair Francis Gorman, an RCMP officer in the Pictou area, has been charged with two counts of fraud, one count of theft and one count of breach of trust by a public officer.

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Joey Thompson, The Province
It’s legally OK in this country for a married Mountie to take part in a lunch-hour romp at his home with a mixed-up school girl less than half his age.That, dear readers, is why the Senate must get on with approving proposed federal legislation that jacks up the age of consent to [...]

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