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Row over RCMP’s wife leads to docked pay after ‘knockout’ blow in Kamloops

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Excessive use of Force · Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Charged · Mounties Investigating Mounties

Officers absolved in pepper-spray case

July 1st, 2008 · 17 Comments

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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Tags: Excessive use of Force · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · RCMP Public Complaints Commission

RCMP cleared over pepper spray incident

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Linda Nguyen (Ottawa Citizen) - The RCMP officer who pepper-sprayed a group of aboriginals, including a seven-month-old baby, celebrating a soccer game victory on a Sechelt, B.C., reserve last July has been cleared of wrongdoing, an internal investigation concluded.
First Nations Summit Grand Chief Edward John, an independent observer during the investigation into the July 2, 2007, [...]

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Tags: Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight

RCMP clears itself on pepper-spray complaint

June 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Excessive use of Force · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight

Anger management ordered for Edmonton Mountie

May 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Steve Lillebuen, Edmonton, Alberta (Canwest News Service) - A Mountie has been stripped of three days pay and urged to enrol in anger-management classes after an internal disciplinary hearing into charges of disgraceful conduct.
RCMP Const. Gord Kroeker was found guilty Thursday of conduct unbecoming of an officer in an April 1, 2006, incident outside a [...]

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Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Mounties Investigating Mounties

Concerns rise on Taser use

May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

(Halifax Herald) - The grieving mother of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish immigrant who died after being Tasered by Mounties at Vancouver’s international airport last fall, last week told a B.C. public inquiry into Taser use that the incident has “shattered” her faith in the RCMP.
Police forces across Canada which use Tasers should be paying close [...]

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Tags: Attempted Cover Up · Death While In Custody · Excessive use of Force · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Political/Government Interference or Involvement · RCMP Oversight · Robert Dziekanski · Senior Management · Taser

Medical history the focus of investigation into man who died after Taser jolt

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

(Canadian Press) Vancouver, B.C. - Robert Dziekanski’s medical history, not potential skeletons in his past, was the focus of investigators who travelled to Poland to examine the background of the man who died after being jolted by an RCMP Taser, says the senior officer who led the overseas probe.
Dziekanski came to national attention last October [...]

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Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Attempted Cover Up · Broken Force · Death While In Custody · Excessive use of Force · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · Robert Dziekanski · Taser

Public Service Commission Imposes Conditions on the RCMP due to Shortcomings in Public Service Staffing

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

(Press Release) - The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Canada has tabled today in Parliament the Audit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - appointments under the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). The audit concluded that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) did not effectively manage its public service staffing activities carried out under the [...]

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Tags: Mounties Investigating Mounties · Rising Crime Rates

Kafka in Canada: RCMP’s secret files fuel controversy

April 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Attempted Cover Up · Big Brother · Breach Of Trust · Broken Force · Commissioner of the RCMP · Corruption within the RCMP · Human Rights · Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · Senior Management · Shoddy Investigations · Your Tax Dollars In Action

Mountie felt ‘condemned’ before hearings

April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Jessica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie who could be cited for contempt of Parliament says she has been misunderstood by a parliamentary committee that has been misled by RCMP whistleblowers.
Deputy Commissioner Barbara George testified under oath before the House of Commons public accounts committee three times last year in an effort [...]

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Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Abuse Of Mounties · Attempted Cover Up · Breach Of Trust · Broken Force · Commissioner of the RCMP · Corruption within the RCMP · Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Charged · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Other Law Enforcement Agencies · Political/Government Interference or Involvement · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · Senior Management · Shoddy Investigations · Whistleblower