RCMP Watch

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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Anne Sutherland (Montreal Gazette) - A Laval des Rapides couple who were the first people in Canada to be charged with human trafficking have fired back at the Crown, the Laval police and the RCMP with a $5-million civil lawsuit claiming damages for wrongful arrest and mental anguish.
In May 2007, Nichan Manoukian and Manoudshag Saryboyadjian [...]

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(Mississauga News) - A former RCMP officer who police say has been living in Mississauga with his mother has been given a 12-month conditional sentence for possessing child pornography.
Andrew Ugrica, 39, resigned from his North Vancouver RCMP detachment in January, before giving a guilty plea.
His lawyer told the court Ugrica now plans to stay in [...]

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Tom Zytaruk (Surrey Now) - A knife fight between two married cops spawned a series of acrimonious litigations that included allegations of negligence and malicious prosecution against a third cop who investigated the assault.
The case centred on a knife fight between two married officers in their home in 1994. Both parties - Patrick Reilly, of [...]

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(Toronto Star Editorial) - A human rights ruling in favour of a former RCMP cadet who suffered taunts and discrimination while at the force’s Regina training depot in 1999 should serve as a wake-up call to Canada’s national police.
In a decision this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found Ali Tahmourpour, who is Muslim, was [...]

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(CBC) - The Mounties could be paying more than $1 million as a result of a human rights ruling in favour of a Muslim Iranian-Canadian who faced discrimination at the RCMP Training Academy in Regina and was terminated.
The force must also give Ali Tahmourpour, 35, another chance at becoming an RCMP officer, and introduce changes [...]

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Patrick Brethour, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - Any stranger sticks out in tiny Cherryville, B.C., population 900, where the gas station doubles as the local liquor store.
But to the two clerks working at the Cherryville Emporium on Wednesday afternoon, the diminutive slow-speaking man who came in looking to cash in 10 beer cans stuck [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she’s being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn’t do.
On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public [...]

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Matthew Ramsey, Vancouver, B.C. (Canwest News Service) - A B.C. Mountie has received informal discipline for posting a dating profile online using a picture of himself in his red serge uniform to find transgendered and transsexual mates.
“I am looking to meet mature Thai women who are interested in a sincere friendship that can develop into [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - Several hours of surveillance footage recorded at Vancouver airport the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was Tasered and died were inadvertently erased by the Canada Border Services Agency a week after his death, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
The mistake is revealed in a series of internal CBSA e-mails on the [...]

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