RCMP Watch

Alleged assault incident occurred last August in Summerland
A Summerland RCMP officer has been charged following a complaint about an arrest last summer.
Cpl. Andre Turcotte is facing two charges; one count of assault and one count of confining, imprisoning or forcibly seizing a person.
He will make his first court appearance on Aug. 20 in Penticton Provincial [...]

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Chad Skelton, Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - Most shootings by RCMP members do not meet the force’s own standards for the use of deadly force, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
According to the report, of the 30 RCMP shootings nationwide in 2006 (the most recent year for which data was [...]

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Petersfield, MB (Winnipeg Free Press) - Nine months after she alleges four RCMP officers held her down in a jail cell and Tasered her three times, this 17-year-old girl lifts the bottom of her cotton shorts, revealing pale scars on her thigh from where the weapon reportedly shocked her.
The teenager and her parents are in [...]

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Summerland, B.C. (Canadian Press) - RCMP have charged one of their own, folllowing an investigation into an arrest in Summerland, B.C., last summer.
Police say an officer responded to a complaint at a local pub last Aug. 17 and arrested one man for being drunk in a public place.
They say later the same evening, it’s alleged [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - A Whistler RCMP officer was docked five days’ pay after he punched another Mountie in the face in defence of a friend who was making advances on another officer’s wife during a fundraiser in Kamloops, B.C.
At his RCMP disciplinary board hearing this past April, Const. Devon Jones admitted to striking [...]

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(CBC News) - RCMP officers involved in the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski were also affected by the tragic incident and in need of support, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said Friday.
Campbell made the comments a day after CBC News published internal RCMP e-mails that indicated the premier was “highly complimentary” of the police force, despite [...]

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Rod Mickleburgh, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - An internal RCMP investigation has cleared officers involved in an ugly melee that sent a dozen natives, including women, several children and a six-month-old baby, to hospital after police unleashed a fusillade of pepper spray against celebrants riding in a soccer victory parade.
The incident, some of which was [...]

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Pieta Woolley (Straight.com) - Last year’s RCMP pepper-spraying of several Sechelt band infants, youths, and elders was “regrettable” but “appropriate in the circumstances”, according to a police report obtained by the Georgia Straight. Then-chief Stan Dixon laid a complaint into the July 2007 incident with the Sunshine Coast RCMP detachment. Of the four allegations of [...]

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Matt Kieltyka (24 Hours) - The use of Tasers needs to be restricted, according to the the chair of the body that oversees RCMP complaints.
Paul Kennedy, chair of the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP, appeared before the Braidwood Inquiry into Taser use on Wednesday and said he has a problem with the way [...]

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(CBC News) - A parliamentary committee is threatening to call for a moratorium on the use of stun guns if the RCMP doesn’t begin restricting use of the weapons by the end of the year.
The House of Commons public safety and national security committee made its report on Taser use public in the hours following [...]

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