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	<description>Who is keeping them accountable?</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mountie Gets Off Lightly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Coulombe, Montreal, QC (CJAD Radio) -  A former Mountie convicted of striking a 3-year-old child, won&#8217;t be locked-up.
Guy Charles faced a maximum18-month jail term, but got 3-months to be served in the community instead.
Charles hit the child in the face while he was the only adult present at his ex-wife&#8217;s daycare.
The incident happened in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third man dies in police custody in six weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - A man is dead after choking on a golfball-sized bag of crack-cocaine as Surrey RCMP tried to arrest him, making him the third person to die in their custody in the past six weeks.
Brandon Whitelaw, 22, was riding in a car with another man at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man faces attempted murder charge after Mountie hit</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/man-faces-attempted-murder-charge-after-mountie-hit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Kaufmann (Calgary Sun) - Mounties have charged a Saskatchewan man with attempted murder after he allegedly rammed an RCMP officer &#8212; and attempted to mow down two more.
Along with three counts of attempted murder, Kenneth Janzen, 24, of Saskatoon, is also charged with kidnapping in the Wednesday incident that saw a four-year RCMP veteran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officer faces charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excessive use of Force]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alleged assault incident occurred last August in Summerland
A Summerland RCMP officer has been charged following a complaint about an arrest last summer.
Cpl. Andre Turcotte is facing two charges; one count of assault and one count of confining, imprisoning or forcibly seizing a person.
He will make his first court appearance on Aug. 20 in Penticton Provincial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Mounties to put brakes on dangerous pursuits</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/time-for-mounties-to-put-brakes-on-dangerous-pursuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Remington (Calgary Herald - Editorial) - Among the many things taught to cadets at the RCMP training depot in Regina is risk assessment.
&#8220;As a police officer, your role in an intervention is to ensure that the public is safe,&#8221; reads one of the Mounties&#8217; training manuals. It continues:
&#8220;Police safety is essential to public safety. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing times for Tasers</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/testing-times-for-tasers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taser]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Regina Leader-Post) - It&#8217;s been touted as an alternative to police guns that will save lives, but the Taser is itself under fire following a series of deaths and controversial incidents.
In particular, a bystander&#8217;s video of the final moments of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, who died after being Tasered by RCMP officers at Vancouver airport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.S. men allege racism in complaint against Halifax police</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/ns-men-allege-racism-in-complaint-against-halifax-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Moore, Halifax, NS (Globe and Mail) - Two young black men who say they were racially taunted by off-duty police and then abused by uniformed officers filed a formal complaint yesterday against Halifax Regional Police.
Nathaniel Fells and William Drummond were joined at police headquarters by dozens of protesters, a handful of whom stayed while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountie suspended 10 days for firing pistol at home</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/mountie-suspended-10-days-for-firing-pistol-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Davene Jeffrey (Chronical Herald) - More than a year after a South Shore Mountie fired her service pistol nine times through a wall after a dispute with her ex-boyfriend, the force punished her by suspending her from work without pay for 10 days, an RCMP spokesman said.
The penalty handed to Const. Adree Zahara was confirmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well-Founded Doubt</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/well-founded-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Complaints]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Globe and Mail - Editorial) - If there&#8217;s a medal reserved for courageous police boards, the Saskatchewan Police Commission deserves it. It has stood up against police orthodoxy nearly everywhere in Canada to voice honest doubts about tasers. &#8220;There&#8217;s a grave danger of them being abused,&#8221; chair Michael Tochor said yesterday. He also expressed doubts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saskatchewan won&#8217;t let municipal police officers use tasers</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/saskatchewan-wont-let-municipal-police-officers-use-tasers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/saskatchewan-wont-let-municipal-police-officers-use-tasers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regina, SK (Canadian Press) - Regular municipal police in Saskatchewan will not be issued tasers because of safety concerns over the conducted energy weapons, the province&#8217;s police commission announced Friday.
“After questions about the safety of the equipment arose, accompanied by the public inquiry in British Columbia &#8230; the commission believed it was not prudent to [...]]]></description>
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