RCMP Watch

(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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Editor (The Labradorian) - Wouldn’t it be great if the RCMP held themselves to the same standards as they do the public?
Recently the RCMP setup checkpoints as part of National Road Safety week. The expectation was to make the public aware of such things as seatbelts, cell phone use and speeding.
Although for the most part [...]

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Ben Gelinas (Edmonton Journal) - The responsibilities and conduct of off-duty RCMP Const. Gord Kroeker were questioned today after St. Albert officers alleged he tried to interfere in their investigation of a bar bathroom mugging.
An internal disciplinary hearing was told that Kroeker was with friends April 1, 2006 at a St. Albert bar called the [...]

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(CityNews.ca) - As the Ontario Provincial Police scan the province’s highways from the sky and the ground looking for dangerous and aggressive drivers there’s word one of their own is facing charges under the new street racing law.
A 43-year-old Peterborough County OPP constable was allegedly clocked driving at least 50 kilometres over the speed limit [...]

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(CBC News) Mission, B.C. - A man arrested in the armed robbery of a convenience store on Friday has escaped from custody in Mission, B.C.
RCMP offered few details on David Glen Moody’s escape, except to say that he was outside the detachment when he assaulted his escort, ran down an embankment and made his getaway [...]

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Lorie O’Halloran (The Labradorian) - Although there’s been a lot of negative media about RCMP conduct, a representative of the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP (CPC) says a newly created pilot project was not created for that reason.
Brooke McNabb, vice chair of CPC said the RCMP, as an institution, has come under a [...]

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Neal Hall, Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - Police are sometimes too quick to use force rather than trying to de-escalate a situation, a former Mountie told a Taser inquiry today.
“Certainly, my own opinion is that we’re moving too quickly to use force rather than using techniques to de-escalate,” said Kevin Begg, now assistant deputy minister [...]

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Kevin Rollason (Winnipeg Free Press) - The chief of the Manto Sipi Cree Nation and other northern aboriginal organizations are calling for an independent investigation into a RCMP shooting of an aboriginal man.
Terrence Yellowback, 27, was wounded after a confrontation on the reserve with an RCMP officer on April 5. RCMP had been called to [...]

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Terrence Yellowback will never be confused as a person who accepts responsibility for his actions.
The Manto Sipi Cree Nation man said this week he didn’t deserve to be shot, then zapped with a Taser by a Mountie on April 5. Yellowback said the entire incident wouldn’t have happened “if police gave me a few minutes [...]

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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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