RCMP Watch

(Vancouver Sun) - To say that Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers have been involved in a number of controversial incidents is to put it mildly.
From several questionable shooting deaths in British Columbia to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski after being Tasered at Vancouver International Airport, these incidents have led many organizations, including The [...]

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(CBC News) - The Ontario Provincial Police will investigate whether there was any criminal misconduct involved in the management of the troubled RCMP insurance plan, the Mounties announced Wednesday.
“I have asked the OPP to conduct this investigation, and the RCMP will cooperate fully,” RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said in a press release.
The OPP have already [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says the RCMP should not disclose the existence of a criminal investigation except in certain limited circumstances.
The association has sent a letter to Paul Kennedy, chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, related to his probe into how the force handled its [...]

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Elise Stolte (Edmonton Journal) - When 10-year-old Agnes Grandbois fled the Onion Lake Residential School in 1916, it was a red-coated Mountie on horseback who chased her down and brought her back.
Decades later, she taught her grandchildren to put on their shoes, even before brushing their teeth in the morning.
“It was so we could run,” [...]

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(novanewsnow.com) Former Queens RCMP officer, Const. Addie MacCallum is going to trial Nov. 25-27 in Liverpool Provincial Court for alleged assaults against two Queens county men.
The Bible Hill detachment member has been charged with assaulting Terry Russell of Caledonia and Cory Peach of Port Mouton.
Const. MacCallum arrested Russell June 16, 2005 at his home. He [...]

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(Vancouver Sun) - According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police report concerning in-custody deaths between 2002 and 2006, the deceased people “lived, for the most part, high-risk lifestyles. Their decisions resulted in their deaths.”That statement, which sounds a lot like blaming the victims, will offer cold comfort to the families of British Columbians who have [...]

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Mike De Souza, Ottawa (Canwest News Service) - RCMP Deputy Commissioner Barbara George has accused a committee of federal MPs that found her in “contempt of Parliament” of ignoring the evidence and damaging her reputation.
The committee’s final report on a pension fund scandal at the police force accused Deputy Commissioner George of “providing false and [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP has launched a probe into the conduct of the Vernon RCMP officers involved in the Dec. 27 shooting death of Christopher Klim.
The 24-year-old Vernon man was being taken into custody under the Mental Health Act when he brandished a knife, refused commands to [...]

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Prince George, B.C. (250 News) - The top brass with the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP will be coming to BC later this month.
The Vice Chair, Brooke McNabb will be in Prince George in a couple of weeks, and the Chair, Paul Kennedy, will be in the province at the end of [...]

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Josh Pringle (CFRA Radio) - The RCMP’s watchdog will investigate the shooting death of a man by the Mounties who was reported to be wielding a knife in Vernon, British Columbia.
The RCMP says officers were called to arrest a man on a warrant issued under the Mental Health Act on Thursday.
A statement from the Mounties [...]

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