RCMP Watch

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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Ottawa, ON (Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed the conviction of a British Columbia man for molesting three children, ruling that the RCMP “knowingly and deliberately” violated the Charter of Rights during their investigation.
In a 9-0 judgment Thursday, the court ordered a new trial for Dieter Wittwer, 73, described at a Kelowna, [...]

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(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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