RCMP Watch

Dawn Roberts (Asian Pacific Post) - RCMP Recruiter Cst. Mandeep Atwal had many dreams growing up, but he had no idea that his passion for football would in time create the crucial foundation for his future job as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The son of new immigrants from India, Mandeep and [...]

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Dirk Meissner, Victoria, B.C. (Canadian Press) - It used to be the image of Dudley Do-Right, the squeaky-clean Mountie, that was etched into the minds of Canadians when they considered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
But what’s more likely to come to mind now are the chilling last screams of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski as he [...]

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(CBC) - RCMP are investigating after two campus officers were caught on film playfully posing with young women and lending them handcuffs while on duty, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday night.
Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said the RCMP are “very concerned” about the case and are taking it seriously.
Photos obtained by CBC News show the two officers [...]

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Julie Horbal, Sun Media
A judge has reserved decision until Thursday in a he-said, she-said sexual assault trial involving two Mounties.
The two sides presented closing arguments yesterday, but Justice Glenn Joyal said he needs to re-examine the evidence and decide whether an “honest but mistaken belief” defence should come into play.
The accused, a 34-year-old officer stationed [...]

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Julie Horbal, Winnipeg Sun
A night of alleged drunken sexual activity between two off-duty RCMP officers was consensual and not pre-meditated, the accused told court yesterday.
The 34-year-old male constable based out of Morris testified the complainant, a 24-year-old woman, did not object to repeated sexual contact, and eventually presented her naked body to him at a [...]

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Nadia Moharib, Sun Media
Mounties are trying to find out how an Emergency Response Team member ended up shooting and wounding a fellow-officer as they raided a home near Sundre on a search warrant for illegal firearms.The Mountie, from Calgary, is expected to make a full recovery after being shot in the lower leg from a [...]

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Dan Singleton, Calgary Herald
A male RCMP officer was rushed to hospital in Calgary on Thursday morning after being shot in the lower leg by a fellow officer during a raid on a rural home.
He is expected to make a full recovery, police said.
The officer, who has not been named, was wounded when officers stormed [...]

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Glenn Bohn, Vancouver Sun
An RCMP officer who has been accused of buying sex from two teenaged prostitutes in Prince George between 1993 and 2001 may soon be returning to active duty.
Const. Justin Harris, who maintains his innocence and has never been criminally charged, was suspended with pay in September 2004 and accused under the RCMP [...]

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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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Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg
The image of the Canadian Mountie, the dependable champion of law and order parodied by Dudley Do- Right in Rocky and Bullwinkle television cartoons, is in tatters.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country’s national police, faces accusations by current and retired officers that senior management sought to cover up fraud at [...]

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