(Victoria Times Colonist) – If anyone should have a strong sense of right and wrong, it should be police officers. It shouldn’t take a gradual cultural shift to eliminate sexual harassment within the RCMP.
Insp. Carol Bradley, the officer appointed by the B.C. division of the RCMP to handle the response to allegations of sexual harassment within the force, has implemented corrective policies and procedure, but says cultural change is needed and that will take time.
Here’s one way to effect cultural change. Send a memo to every member of the force defining in clear terms what constitutes sexual harassment, along with this order: Don’t do it. If you do, you’re out.
Of course, that’s an overly simplistic approach, and measures have already been taken. Bradley has been busy – she has posted harassment advisers across the province and has provided means for confidential reporting of problems. Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens has already announced the appointment of 100 specialized investigators who will look into harassment complaints.
All RCMP officers should not be judged by the improper actions of a few, but it’s a serious concern to most Canadians that the problem exists at all. We hold the RCMP to a higher standard. Because of human fallibility, that standard will not always be met, but that doesn’t mean the standard should be lowered.
Honour, dignity, respect and conduct befitting an officer of the law might be old-fashioned concepts, but they will never be outdated.
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Ah, Insp. Bradley. Welcome to the freak show which is the long painfully arduous journey of trying to tell the citizenry that everything is fine and we have it all under control.
The policies, guidlines and procedures to deal with all this S%&* are already in place, we have just lacked personnel who have butt smooched their way into senior management to understand and do their JOBS!!!!!!!!
Canadians need to rise up and tell their political / police leaders what they expect and require. Public SERVANT is what we are and whom we serve.
There should be no Mounties in Ottawa, that place makes peoples brains turn to horses*(&!!!!!!