RCMP Watch

Iqaluit (Canadian Press) - At least eight Mounties were among the crowd that packed a courtroom Friday as the man accused of shooting Nunavut RCMP Const. Doug Scott to death made his first appearance.
Pingoatuk (Ping) Kolola, 37, stood in handcuffs as Justice of the Peace Alexina Kublu read out the charge of first-degree murder. He [...]

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Jon Willing (Winnipeg Sun) - Bernie Mayer says he worried “all the time” when his son Dan was the only cop working in the small Arctic community where Const. Doug Scott was killed this week.
“He was alone. There were no other people with him,” Mayer said yesterday from his Gatineau home. “I’m glad he’s out [...]

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(CBC News) - The widow of a slain RCMP officer is calling for changes in the way the force patrols remote communities in the North, saying her husband would still be alive if a mandatory backup policy had been in place.
“The RCMP as an organization is not doing enough to keep the members safe,” said [...]

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Iqaluit (Canadian Press) - The RCMP have charged a man in the shooting death of Const. Douglas Scott.
Pingoatuk (Ping) Kolola of Kimmirut, Nunavut, is charged with first-degree murder.
Kolola, 37, surrendered to police early Tuesday morning, just hours after Scott died while answering a drunk-driving call.
A news conference is to held this afternoon in Iqaluit to [...]

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Kenneth Jackson (Sun News) - A new RCMP policy on backup officers couldn’t come at a better time after another Mountie died answering a call for service while he was alone.
The policy is expected to be implemented on Dec. 3 and has restrictions on the calls an RCMP officer will be permitted to attend without [...]

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(CBC News) - Family and friends of a young Mountie killed in Nunavut remembered him as an exemplary member of the RCMP who wanted to be a police officer since he was a boy.
Const. Doug Scott, 20, was shot and killed in the Baffin Island hamlet of Kimmirut late Monday after responding to an impaired [...]

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(CBC News) - People in Nunavut reacted with shock and grief Tuesday to news that an RCMP officer was shot and killed in the Baffin Island hamlet of Kimmirut.
RCMP in Kimmirut arrested a man several hours after Const. Douglas Scott, 20, was fatally shot while on duty late Monday night. Police have yet to identify [...]

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Kirsten Smith (CanWest News Service) - More than 200 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers have been killed in the line of duty since the force was created in 1873. The national police force provides basic policing in all provinces except Ontario and Quebec, as well as municipal policing in 197 communities. Since 2000 alone, [...]

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Mark Brennae and Doug Beazley (CanWest News Service) - There’s a 50 per cent chance Const. Douglas Scott, the 20-year-old RCMP officer shot dead in Nunavut, would be alive today if the Mounties had a “clear directive” to not answer calls alone at night, a 39-year RCMP veteran and former president of the Association de [...]

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Edmonton, Alberta  (Canadian Press) - The parents of a slain Alberta Mountie have lost a bid to delay his widow’s plan to move his body to the national RCMP cemetery in Regina.
A judge in Edmonton has turned down their request for an injunction to prevent Kelly Johnston from going ahead until the family can appeal.
Constable [...]

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