RCMP Watch

(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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(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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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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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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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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(CBC News) - The Ontario Provincial Police will investigate whether there was any criminal misconduct involved in the management of the troubled RCMP insurance plan, the Mounties announced Wednesday.
“I have asked the OPP to conduct this investigation, and the RCMP will cooperate fully,” RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said in a press release.
The OPP have already [...]

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(Vancouver Sun) - A Metro Vancouver RCMP officer has been charged with assault with a weapon after allegedly pepper spraying someone during an off-duty fight at a Burnaby gas station.
According to an RCMP news release, Const. Aubry Bacchus allegedly used his pepper spray during a “physical altercation” while off duty at a Chevron Station at [...]

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Lawyers for a St. John’s Mountie accused of impaired driving told provincial court on Wednesday that breath samples were improperly taken from the accused.
Breathalyzer tests given by Const. Jackie Remillard when she was stopped two years ago were not taken within the required amount of time, defence lawyer Graham Watton argued.
Crown attorney Wendy Zdebiak said [...]

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Victoria, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. Mountie who had sex on the job and used his uniform to draw dates will have to resign, an RCMP adjudication board decided Wednesday.
Const. Trent Richards admitted to having sex with women on at least 15 occasions while on duty at the rural detachment in Shawnigan Lake, B.C., [...]

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Louise Dickson, Victoria, B.C. (Times Colonist) - He called himself “goodguy4444,” but the RCMP doesn’t see it that way.
The head of the Mounties in B.C., Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, is trying to dismiss Const. Trent Richards of the Shawnigan Lake detachment for having sex while on duty and using RCMP equipment — police cruisers and [...]

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