RCMP Watch

Rosie Gillingham, St. John’s, NFLD (The Telegram) - The female RCMP officer who was acquitted of drunk driving charges almost six months ago has been charged again with the same offences and has been suspended from the force, Transcontinental Media has learned.
Const. Jacqueline Remillard of Conception Bay South was pulled over June 27 in St. [...]

[Read more →]

Moncton, NB (Times and Transcripts) - Two days in December have been set aside for the preliminary hearing of a suspended Codiac RCMP corporal accused of committing sexual offences.
Cpl. Alain Boulianne was not present in Moncton provincial court yesterday morning, but was represented by defence lawyer James Letcher. He appeared before Judge Anne Jeffries, while [...]

[Read more →]

100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. Mountie has been convicted of assault with a Taser stemming from a police call to a pub in 100 Mile House.
Const. Dan Cameron will be sentenced at a later date for the December 2006 incident. Cameron and two other officers were called to a pub on [...]

[Read more →]

Davene Jeffrey (Chronical Herald) - More than a year after a South Shore Mountie fired her service pistol nine times through a wall after a dispute with her ex-boyfriend, the force punished her by suspending her from work without pay for 10 days, an RCMP spokesman said.
The penalty handed to Const. Adree Zahara was confirmed [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

James Foster, Moncton, N.B. (Times & Transcript) - A former Codiac Regional RCMP officer who molested his own young relatives over decades was handed a four-year term in federal penitentiary yesterday.
The name of the man, 52, is banned from publication by court order. When Crown attorney William Richards asked for the usual ban on the [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Martin van den Hemel, Richmond, B.C. (Richmond Review) - A Richmond Mountie who was acquitted Monday afternoon on a charge of possessing stolen property must wade through new legal hot water.

The Richmond Review has learned that Khomphet Khamphoune, who was the subject of a child-pornography investigation that unearthed evidence that led to this trial, [...]

[Read more →]

Nelson Bennett (Canwest News Service) - For the last 18 months, Richmond RCMP Constable Khomphet (Kam) Khamphoune has lived with the tarnished image of a cop who allegedly stole from his detachment and had “links” to kiddie porn.
He was also painted in a Richmond provincial courtroom Thursday as a quasi-survivalist who liked to dress up [...]

[Read more →]

(Winnipeg Sun) - A veteran Thompson RCMP officer has been charged with drunk driving.
RCMP say the member was off duty at the time he was allegedly caught driving under the influence on Sunday morning.
Const. Allan Spence, 42, a 19-year member of the RCMP, was driving about 10 kilometres north of Thompson at the time of [...]

[Read more →]