RCMP Watch

Neal Hall, Merrett, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - The commander of RCMP criminal operations in B.C. faced some tough questions Thursday about the police handling of a murder investigation involving three children found killed here Sunday.
During a news conference, reporters repeatedly asked RCMP Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre why it took police 20 hours before publicly announcing [...]

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Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]

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Kamloops, B.C. (Canadian Press) -A B.C. judge should throw out charges stemming from a multimillion-dollar RCMP investigation into a national auto-theft ring after a security breach left crucial evidence exposed to theft and tampering, says a defence lawyer.
Alexander Watt said charges against the four accused men should be stayed due to the breach, which resulted [...]

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Robert Koopmans, Kamloops, B.C. (Kamloops Daily News) - The security of RCMP computers used to process evidence for a looming multimillion-dollar trial was breached from outside the agency, exposing sensitive files to the possibility of theft and tampering, Crown documents reveal.
The police computers were also used to view pornography and download music and illegal software, [...]

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Yarmouth, N.S. (Canadian Press) - An internal RCMP inquiry indicates that a breakdown in communications caused Nova Scotia police not to respond to a recent 911 call.
The incident happened last week in Yarmouth after the director of the Boys and Girls Club made an emergency call from her cellphone thinking an intruder was in the [...]

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Victoria, B.C. (Canadian Press) - A B.C. Mountie who had sex on the job and used his uniform to draw dates will have to resign, an RCMP adjudication board decided Wednesday.
Const. Trent Richards admitted to having sex with women on at least 15 occasions while on duty at the rural detachment in Shawnigan Lake, B.C., [...]

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Louise Dickson, Victoria, B.C. (Times Colonist) - He called himself “goodguy4444,” but the RCMP doesn’t see it that way.
The head of the Mounties in B.C., Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, is trying to dismiss Const. Trent Richards of the Shawnigan Lake detachment for having sex while on duty and using RCMP equipment — police cruisers and [...]

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(Canadian Press) - Most people think of money and DVDs when they think of counterfeits. But hair irons?
RCMP in the Quebec City region announced Tuesday they have seized 4,500 of the counterfeit devices.
Cpl. Richard Faucher acknowledged hair-straightening irons aren’t the usual fakes seen by the federal force.
“But we have to keep in mind that everything [...]

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He may not become a famous movie police dog like Hooch in the 1989 movie Turner and Hooch, but if your choice of name for a German shepherd puppy born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre (PDSTC) in Innisfail, Alta., is selected, you can be sure the dog you named will grow to become [...]

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Winnipeg, M.B. (Edmonton Journal) - A dramatic car chase along the Trans-Canada Highway east of Winnipeg early Saturday morning ended with one RCMP vehicle in the ditch and another smashed up before the pursued driver was taken into custody.
RCMP were informed around 9:30 a.m. that a large, silver half-tonne was barrelling west down the highway [...]

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