RCMP Watch

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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Moncton, N.B. (Canadian Press) - A New Brunswick RCMP officer has been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
Cpl. Alain Bouliane, who headed Codiac detachment’s traffic division, has been suspended with pay since the allegations surfaced last fall.
The charges stem from alleged incidents four years ago.
A preliminary hearing date [...]

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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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Quesnel, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. RCMP officer is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, facing an assault charge following a confrontation with a suspect.
RCMP say Tony Adams, then 22, was arrested in the early hours of Dec. 16 at the scene of an accident near Quesnel, B.C.
Police say a suspect at the scene [...]

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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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Truro, N.S. (Canadian Press) - An RCMP officer was granted an absolute discharge today on a fraud charge in Nova Scotia provincial court.
In passing sentence in Truro, Judge Robert Stroud said Ron Lamb has an unblemished record as an officer and has been under considerable strain while on suspension. The 48-year-old officer at the RCMP’s [...]

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