RCMP Watch

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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Margret Kopala (Ottawa Citizen) - It’s past time to put “E” Division out of its misery.
Oh, I know. Studies, recommendations and implementation plans for rehabilitating the RCMP are underway but it’s unlikely the overarching need for leadership, streamlining and a clear-cut mission will arrive soon enough to prevent more catastrophes. Like the taser death of [...]

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Julie Horbal (Sun Media) - Members of the Manto Sipi Cree Nation are taking aim at RCMP for what they call a series of protocol breaches surrounding a Mountie shooting a band member earlier this month.
Chief Roger Ross claims officers ignored policies during and after the shooting which were set out by a memorandum of [...]

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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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Tuesday, April 15 would have been Robert Dziekanski’s 41st birthday. His mother, Zofia Cisowski, did not spend that day with her son. Instead, she went to Ottawa to speak to a House committee investigating the death of that very son.
Dziekanski was shocked with a Taser at Vancouver airport on Oct, 14, 2007. He died writhing [...]

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Gloria Galloway and Campbell Clark, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - RCMP officers raided Conservative Party headquarters in downtown Ottawa yesterday to execute a search warrant requested by Election Commissioner William Corbett.
The police worked behind closed doors of the 12th-floor suite and at a mailroom on another floor. They were searching for information related to Mr. [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - A national union has lodged a formal complaint with Quebec’s police ethics commissioner over the actions of undercover police provocateurs at last year’s summit of North American leaders.
But the goal of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is a full federal inquiry into what they see as a gross [...]

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Ian Bailey and Justin Hunter, Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - The RCMP, caught up in an intense manhunt for Allan Schoenborn – wanted in the stabbing deaths of his three children – are trying to figure out what caused a delay in investigators receiving a tip that he had been seen outside [...]

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Jessica Leeder and Bill Curry, Toronto and Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A former RCMP officer who ordered an investigator to be removed from the probe into the Mountie pension scandal said the wrong person was punished Thursday when the House of Commons cited a Deputy Commissioner for contempt of Parliament.
Dave Gork, who was an [...]

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Caroline Alphonso (Globe and Mail) - The family of a young man who was hit by a train in Moncton and hurled into a creek will continue the search for his body today, three days after the RCMP gave up.
Edwin Hughes, a certified commercial diver, has combed the waters of Halls Creek with his friends [...]

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