RCMP Watch

(Canadian OH&S News) — The RCMP has been ordered to adopt mandatory cultural sensitivity training with a view to “developing and promoting a culture of respect and tolerance for diversity.”
The order by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) follows its determination that a young Muslim man — whose lifelong goal and every effort seemed directed [...]

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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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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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(CBC News) - Police will conduct an internal review into the case of a 14-year-old boy who was held for 10 days in a central Labrador lockup while waiting for a court appearance.
The 14-year-old, who was convicted last week in Happy Valley-Goose Bay for breach of probation and possession of marijuana, was arrested earlier this [...]

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Globe and Mail
Inquest into the death of Ian Bush
• Houston, B.C., RCMP Constable Paul Koester shot Mr. Bush in the back of the head on Oct. 29, 2005, after he had been in police custody for just over 20 minutes. Mr. Bush had been arrested for obstruction.
Pension fund scandal
• Government-appointed investigator David Brown concluded that [...]

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Editorial, Toronto Star
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day was careful yesterday not to prejudice the task force that the Conservatives plan to appoint to overhaul the way the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is run. But he signalled clearly enough that the days of an all-powerful RCMP commissioner riding roughshod over subordinates are galloping to a close.
Prime [...]

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CBC News
The government has accepted all the recommendations from an investigation into the RCMP’s pension fund — a report that called for major changes to the force’s governance and culture, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Monday.
Day also agreed with special investigator David Brown, the former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, who rejected the [...]

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Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says he will act on most of the recommendations in a scathing report about the RCMP and its former commissioner, including one to set up a task force to overhaul the troubled national police force.
ay said Sunday that he favours a task force over a public [...]

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Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
A special investigator pinned much of the blame for the pension scandal rocking the RCMP on the autocratic leadership of former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and called for a review into the culture of the Mounties and how they are governed.
David Brown, the former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, said yesterday [...]

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Campbell Clark and Daniel LeBlanc - Globe and Mail
Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli was an autocratic leader who punished whistle-blowers in the force’s pension-fund scandal and dragged his feet on launching criminal investigations, a government-appointed investigator has found.Lawyer David Brown concluded that the RCMP’s management is “horribly broken” and needs to be fixed quickly.
He called [...]

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