RCMP Watch

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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TASER International Press Release:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. USA - TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices (ECDs), issued the following NEWS ALERT:
According to an article in the June 26, 2008 edition of The Globe and Mail, a Nanaimo RCMP officer used a TASER electronic control device Saturday morning to save a man [...]

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Bal Brach (National Post) - A woman arrested for public intoxication died Thursday while being held at an RCMP facility in the central B.C. city of Prince George, according to an RCMP news release.
Just after midnight Thursday, police received a complaint of a half-naked man rolling around in the bushes near the College Heights pub.
When [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - B.C.’s police complaint commissioner says he doesn’t advocate a moratorium on the use of Tasers but they have become a “tool of convenience” and more testing, study and training is required.
Dirk Ryneveld told a B.C. public inquiry Wednesday that he’s had a long-standing concern with the Taser and how it’s [...]

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Christina Spencer, Ottawa (Toronto Sun) - RCMP misinformation is a key reason a Canadian businessman has been languishing in prison in Bulgaria for the last 12 years, says the outspoken former head of the RCMP complaints commission.
Shirley Heafey told Sun Media the case of Michael Kapoustin, jailed in Sofia since 1996, bears a close resemblance [...]

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(CBC News) - Hours before the scheduled release of a highly anticipated final report on the use of stun guns by Mounties, the RCMP complaints commission abruptly cancelled the Thursday event.
Spokesman Nelson Kalil said the report by RCMP complaints commissioner Paul Kennedy will be released next Wednesday instead, at the request of Public Safety Minister [...]

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