RCMP Watch

Kathy Coulombe, Montreal, QC (CJAD Radio) -  A former Mountie convicted of striking a 3-year-old child, won’t be locked-up.
Guy Charles faced a maximum18-month jail term, but got 3-months to be served in the community instead.
Charles hit the child in the face while he was the only adult present at his ex-wife’s daycare.
The incident happened in [...]

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Bill Kaufmann (Calgary Sun) - Mounties have charged a Saskatchewan man with attempted murder after he allegedly rammed an RCMP officer — and attempted to mow down two more.
Along with three counts of attempted murder, Kenneth Janzen, 24, of Saskatoon, is also charged with kidnapping in the Wednesday incident that saw a four-year RCMP veteran [...]

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Robert Remington (Calgary Herald - Editorial) - Among the many things taught to cadets at the RCMP training depot in Regina is risk assessment.
“As a police officer, your role in an intervention is to ensure that the public is safe,” reads one of the Mounties’ training manuals. It continues:
“Police safety is essential to public safety. [...]

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(Globe and Mail - Editorial) - If there’s a medal reserved for courageous police boards, the Saskatchewan Police Commission deserves it. It has stood up against police orthodoxy nearly everywhere in Canada to voice honest doubts about tasers. “There’s a grave danger of them being abused,” chair Michael Tochor said yesterday. He also expressed doubts [...]

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Regina, SK (Canadian Press) - Regular municipal police in Saskatchewan will not be issued tasers because of safety concerns over the conducted energy weapons, the province’s police commission announced Friday.
“After questions about the safety of the equipment arose, accompanied by the public inquiry in British Columbia … the commission believed it was not prudent to [...]

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Rod Mickleburgh (Globe and Mail) - Nice to know Gary Bass, deputy RCMP commissioner out here, is a reader of The Globe and Mail, albeit not a happy one, apparently.
In one of his e-mails to Mountie boss William Elliott in Ottawa as the furor broke over the fatal RCMP tasering of Robert Dziekanski, Mr. Bass [...]

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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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Tim Lai (Vancouver Sun) - For the second time in two weeks, a man has died while in the custody of Surrey RCMP.
Sgt. Roger Morrow told a news conference that a man in his 20s died at Surrey Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon after he was taken into custody Friday night.
Morrow said he was unable to [...]

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Victoria Stagg Elliott, Chicago, Il., USA (American Medical News) - In response to concerns about the expanding use of Tasers and their possible impact on health, the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health will gather scientific data on injuries and deaths that may be connected to these electronic control devices for a future report, [...]

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(250 News) Prince George, B.C. -  There is now a  third probe into the in custody  death of 42 year old Cheryl Anne Bouey of Prince George.
The Chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, Paul E. Kennedy, has initiated a complaint into the conduct of those unidentified RCMP members involved in the arrest, and [...]

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