RCMP Watch

Yarmouth, N.S. (Canadian Press) - Angie Lawrence is 67 and has never attended a protest, but after hearing allegations that off-duty police officers insulted and provoked a fight with two black youths, she’s gathering a carload of black church women to attend an anti-racism demonstration on Monday in Digby, N.S.
The soft spoken former nursing home [...]

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Brian Medel (Chronical Herald) - Halifax Regional Police have started an investigation into the conduct of some of their officers who were in Digby last month when a young black man got into an altercation with several off-duty cops.
Allegations of racist behaviour have surfaced involving off-duty policemen from Halifax and other parts of the province [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - A fired biker-gang investigator warned during settlement talks last year that if his wrongful dismissal case ever got to trial it would expose the dysfunctional relationship between the RCMP and B.C.’s municipal police.
“We expect to have several senior police officers willing to testify about the inability or unwillingness of RCMP [...]

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Chad Skelton and Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
The investigation, known as Project Phoenix, targeted several high-profile members of [...]

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Joe Strizi, Sherbrooke, Quebec ( Sherbrooke Record) - Controversy on Taser usage continues to surface as another man died Monday after being stunned by Ontario Provincial Police officers. However, in the Eastern Townships local regulations meet most of the criteria recommended in a report released by the RCMP last week on Tasers.
“Patrol officers don’t carry [...]

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Tiffany Crawford (Canwest News Service) - An Ontario man is dead after Ontario Provincial Police used a Taser after they said the man became combative and disturbed others.
The OPP said the incident happened Monday morning after police responded to a call of a disturbance in Norfolk County, about 130 kilometres southwest of Toronto.
The Taser incident [...]

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Fabian Dawson and Ethan Baron (Vancouver Province) - A long-serving Vancouver police veteran and a Delta firearms-training company are at the centre of an RCMP investigation into the trafficking of guns, some of which are believed to be ending up in the hands of B.C. gangs.
The secretive criminal probe involves the sale of decommissioned guns [...]

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Shannon Kari (National Post ) - The senior RCMP officer who led a probe into a now disbanded Toronto police drug squad, wanted 12 officers charged with corruption related offences, but was told by provincial prosecutors that this number was unmanageable.
As a result, six officers were charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, extortion, theft [...]

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Edmonton, A.B. (Canadian Press) - A disciplinary hearing has cleared an Edmonton police officer of using excessive force on a woman during a potential riot following a June 2006 NHL Oilers playoff game.
Const. Shane Connor, 28, had faced charges of discreditable conduct for striking Kristin Wilson and for swearing at her. The hearing’s presiding officer, [...]

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Rod Mickleburgh, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - The country’s only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including [...]

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