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	<title>RCMP Watch &#187; Broken Force</title>
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	<description>Who is keeping them accountable?</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>
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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 to pursue allegations of disgraceful conduct against officer involved in shooting</title>
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		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-to-pursue-allegations-of-disgraceful-conduct-against-officer-involved-in-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excessive use of Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mounties Breaking The Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Gauk, Nanaimo, B.C. (Nanaimo Daily News) &#8211; Allegations pertaining to an internal code of conduct investigation into a Nanaimo RCMP officer in connection with the September 2009 shooting of a Chemainus man have been substantiated, police said Wednesday.
The RCMP will pursue the allegations of disgraceful conduct on Const. David Pompeo in an adjudication hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watchdog says RCMP must work faster on complaints</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/watchdog-says-rcmp-must-work-faster-on-complaints/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/watchdog-says-rcmp-must-work-faster-on-complaints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political/Government Interference or Involvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ottawa (Canadian Press) &#8211; The RCMP say it&#8217;s working to deal more quickly with complaints about serious police incidents and have made several policy changes since a man died after being arrested and jolted with a Taser in Prince George, B.C. nine years ago.
The force was responding to the final report by the Commission for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountie in sex harassment case sues legal assistance fund</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/mountie-in-sex-harassment-case-sues-legal-assistance-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/mountie-in-sex-harassment-case-sues-legal-assistance-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse By Mounties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Fraser (Vancouver Province) &#8211; A B.C. Mountie who is suing the RCMP over a series of alleged sexual assaults at the hands of a male colleague has filed a new lawsuit.
Karen Katz is taking a society that funds legal aid for Mounties to small claims court for failing to help her in her sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasering of man by RCMP ‘unnecessary and excessive,’ police watchdog says</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/tasering-of-man-by-rcmp-%e2%80%98unnecessary-and-excessive%e2%80%99-police-watchdog-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/tasering-of-man-by-rcmp-%e2%80%98unnecessary-and-excessive%e2%80%99-police-watchdog-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyon Wallace (Toronto Star) &#8211; The simultaneous use of two tasers by RCMP officers on a Prince George, B.C. man who later died in police custody was “unreasonable, unnecessary and excessive,” says a new report by the force’s watchdog.
The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP says Constables Glenn Caston and Kevin O’Donnell violated police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring image job No. 1 for RCMP commissioner</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/restoring-image-job-no-1-for-rcmp-commissioner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/restoring-image-job-no-1-for-rcmp-commissioner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Force]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teresa Wright, P.E.I. (The Guardian) &#8211; RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says he wants to focus on core policing initiatives to restore the public image of the RCMP.
The country&#8217;s national police force has faced a storm of controversy over the past few years with the Tasering and death of Robert Dziekanski and subsequent public inquiry, criticisms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP needs to reflect on its own</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-needs-to-reflect-on-its-own/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-needs-to-reflect-on-its-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Force]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leo Knight (24 Hours Vancouver) &#8211; Revelations in Sunday’s The Province newspaper about the dysfunction within the RCMP’s Special Operations section shouldn&#8217;t come as a big shock – at least to anyone following the tales of sexual and general harassment being told in the media by Cpl. Catherine Galliford and others.
The manipulation of the system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, spies and Mounties: the poisoned culture of the RCMP&#8217;s `Special O&#8217; surveillance squad</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/sex-spies-and-mounties-the-poisoned-culture-of-the-rcmps-special-o-surveillance-squad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/sex-spies-and-mounties-the-poisoned-culture-of-the-rcmps-special-o-surveillance-squad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse By Mounties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Cooper, Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Province) &#8211; In June 2008, when RCMP Const. Lorraine Bergerman met her new boss, Staff-Sgt. Travis Pearson, she found his first words strange and troubling.
Pearson &#8211; a fast-rising, 38-year-old officer candidate and former professional standards investigator &#8211; had just taken over the elite RCMP surveillance unit known as Special O.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We like Mounties, but not their chiefs</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/we-like-mounties-but-not-their-chiefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/we-like-mounties-but-not-their-chiefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Force]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Your Tax Dollars In Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Quan (Vancouver Sun) &#8211; More than 80 per cent of Canadians believe Canada&#8217;s Mounties are honest and work with integrity and professionalism, according to an annual survey gauging satisfaction with the national police force.
However, the same survey showed Canadians have a dimmer view of the force when it comes to its leadership and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Mountie declines to apologize for RCMP failures in Pickton investigation, deferring to managers</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/senior-mountie-declines-to-apologize-for-rcmp-failures-in-pickton-investigation-deferring-to-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/senior-mountie-declines-to-apologize-for-rcmp-failures-in-pickton-investigation-deferring-to-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Pickton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neal Hall, Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) &#8211; The second longest-serving Mountie in Canada declined to apologize for the shortcomings of the RCMP investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton.
Supt. Bob Williams, testifying at the Missing Women inquiry on Thursday, said he wasn&#8217;t in a position to offer an apology during cross-examination by Cameron Ward, the lawyer [...]]]></description>
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