RCMP Watch

(Winnipeg Free Press)  - A 28-year-old man was hailed as a hero on Monday for rescuing a female RCMP officer whose head was being held under water by an attacker on Peguis First Nation.
Dave Raynor was driving past the scene of an attempted arrest on Saturday afternoon when he noticed the uniformed police officer was [...]

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Peter Small, Toronto Star
A former RCMP officer teamed up with a York Region gun club owner to help a mobster sell firearms illegally on the street, a court heard yesterday.
“It became evident to police that a simple but effective scheme was being employed,” by retired Mountie David Kift and Leon Kruger, co-owner of United Sports [...]

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CBC News
A man who helped himself to $187,000 from the RCMP Training Academy’s canteen in Regina has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Marlowe Lang, 42, took the money over 28 months beginning in 2003 while working at the snack bar.
The missing funds were first noticed when a suspicious transaction came to light during a routine check of the [...]

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The Ottawa Citizen
Auditor General Sheila Fraser rarely gets accused of getting it wrong, but a major federal contractor strongly disagrees with her latest report, which looked into the bungling of a $1-billion deal to move Canada’s military, RCMP and public servants to new postings.
So does Public Works, the government’s main procurement arm, which takes issue [...]

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Jana G. Pruden - Regina Leader-Post
Marlowe K. Lang will never be able to give back the $187,000 he stole from his former employer, but his crime will temporarily cost him his freedom.
The 42-year-old was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for defrauding the canteen at Regina’s RCMP Academy of at least $187,000, pilfered in [...]

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Jim Bronskill - Canadian Press
RCMP spies shadowed Tommy Douglas, the fabled Prairie politician, for more than three decades, from his early days as a young firebrand through a tumultuous tenure as NDP leader.
A newly declassified file on Douglas shows the Mounties surreptitiously attended the witty orator’s speeches, dissected his published articles and, during one Parliament [...]

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Rochelle Baker - Abbotsford News
An off-duty RCMP dog that attacked an eight-year-old boy, leaving him with injuries requiring 72 stitches, has been OK’d to return to duty.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary Carlson, who is responsible for police dog services in the Lower Mainland, said Monday that two senior personnel have evaluated the five-year-old dog and determined [...]

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