RCMP Watch

Craig Babstock (Times & Transcript) - A motorist was stopped by an RCMP officer in September 2006 on Highway 2 (the Trans-Canada Highway), near Berry Mills, with two duffel bags full of marijuana.
He was charged with being in possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, but a Moncton judge recently acquitted him after ruling [...]

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Chad Skelton and Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
The investigation, known as Project Phoenix, targeted several high-profile members of [...]

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Ottawa, ON (Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed the conviction of a British Columbia man for molesting three children, ruling that the RCMP “knowingly and deliberately” violated the Charter of Rights during their investigation.
In a 9-0 judgment Thursday, the court ordered a new trial for Dieter Wittwer, 73, described at a Kelowna, [...]

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Anne Sutherland (Montreal Gazette) - A Laval des Rapides couple who were the first people in Canada to be charged with human trafficking have fired back at the Crown, the Laval police and the RCMP with a $5-million civil lawsuit claiming damages for wrongful arrest and mental anguish.
In May 2007, Nichan Manoukian and Manoudshag Saryboyadjian [...]

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(ctvbc.ca) - More than a week after someone killed three children in Merritt, a man who was once an inspector with the RCMP says the police could have done more to catch their prime suspect.
Police didn’t employ basic tools such as a roadblock to catch fugitive Allan Schoenborn, said Bill Majcher, a retired RCMP officer.
“I [...]

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Patrick Brethour, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - Any stranger sticks out in tiny Cherryville, B.C., population 900, where the gas station doubles as the local liquor store.
But to the two clerks working at the Cherryville Emporium on Wednesday afternoon, the diminutive slow-speaking man who came in looking to cash in 10 beer cans stuck [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she’s being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn’t do.
On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - Several hours of surveillance footage recorded at Vancouver airport the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was Tasered and died were inadvertently erased by the Canada Border Services Agency a week after his death, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
The mistake is revealed in a series of internal CBSA e-mails on the [...]

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Neal Hall, Merrett, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - The commander of RCMP criminal operations in B.C. faced some tough questions Thursday about the police handling of a murder investigation involving three children found killed here Sunday.
During a news conference, reporters repeatedly asked RCMP Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre why it took police 20 hours before publicly announcing [...]

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Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]

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