RCMP Watch

(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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Essica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie ensnared in the RCMP pension scandal said the House of Commons’ top legal officer privately offered her a chance to avoid becoming “roadkill” in a campaign to have her cited for contempt of Parliament.
The proposal by veteran law clerk Rob Walsh would have required that [...]

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Yarmouth, N.S. (Canadian Press) - An internal RCMP inquiry indicates that a breakdown in communications caused Nova Scotia police not to respond to a recent 911 call.
The incident happened last week in Yarmouth after the director of the Boys and Girls Club made an emergency call from her cellphone thinking an intruder was in the [...]

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Brian Medel, Yarmouth, N.S. (Chronicle Herald) - The director of a Yarmouth daycare centre made a 911 call early Thursday morning when she thought an intruder was inside the building.
But Nicole Pothier eventually had to check out the building herself when police failed to arrive.
The town’s RCMP commander, Sgt. Frank Landry, says the call was [...]

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Sydney, N.S. (Canadian Press) - Shoddy work by the RCMP was cited Monday as one of the reasons for staying a sexual assault charge against a Cape Breton man who was mistakenly released from jail earlier this year.
Douglas Edward Young, 23, of Eskasoni was released from custody Monday after the Crown’s decision.
Young pleaded guilty to [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - The B.C. Court of Appeal has thrown out drug charges against an accused drug runner, saying Mounties violated his Charter rights with their extensive search of his car.The court ruling says Mark Dreyer was making a drug delivery in a car driven by his sister when the police stopped them [...]

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Whistler (CKNW AM980) - Whistler RCMP are apologizing to a man they say was wrongly identified in a series of suspect photographs.
Last Thursday, Mounties released photos of four people wanted on warrants for offenses in Whistler.
But, one of the photos of a Michael Wilson was a picture of another, innocent person of the same name.

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A Mountie reinstated after being accused of buying sex from two teenage prostitutes more than 10 years ago now is suing the Canadian and B.C. governments, as well as a high-ranking RCMP officer.
Const. Justin Harris wants compensation for what he claims is negligence, malicious prosecution and abuse of authority.
Harris was [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - The Vancouver police department was involved in a coverup in its handling of the case of an aboriginal man who froze to death after being dumped by police in an alley, a lawyer for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association charged Friday.
Mike Tammen told an inquiry into Frank Paul’s death that [...]

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Kathryn May (Ottawa Citizen) - RCMP Deputy Commissioner Barbara George, accused of being “untruthful” to MPs during a parliamentary probe into the Mounties pension scandal, came out swinging yesterday in her final bid to clear her name and avoid the censure of Parliament.
A defiant Deputy Commissioner George told the public accounts committee she didn’t [...]

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