Gary Dimmock (Ottawa Citizen, Canwest News Service) – A former RCMP informant now living under a new identity after infiltrating the Hells Angels has condemned the Mounties, saying they lied to him more than the criminals he betrayed, and likened his experience with the police force to an abusive marriage.
Paul Derry, whose testimony helped secure four murder convictions in a 2000 Hells Angels contract killing, levelled his claims in a letter Sunday to RCMP Assistant Commissioner Raf Souccar.
The informant felt compelled to write the top Mountie after he read Souccar’s 2007 letter to the Ottawa Citizen, in which the officer defended the secretive witness protection program. The newspaper had published an investigative report about another informant who was paid thousands of dollars for bogus crime plots only to later commit murder under a new identity afforded to him by the Mounties.
In the letter to the head-office Mountie, the informant writes:
“I have probably been lied to more by the RCMP than I have the criminals I helped to put away. I have watched the criminals time and again, after their arrest, stand up and plead guilty, take responsibility for their actions, and face their consequences. I have watched the RCMP do quite the opposite; it is no wonder gang membership goes up while police recruitment suffers. If I could use an analogy of what it’s like to be a source for the RCMP, I would have to compare it to an abusive marriage. One partner has all the control … and does not care about the pain or hurt that the rest of the family suffers.”
I`m sorry you take my comments to the extream – I didn`t say they were all lazy, I`m just refering to the ones that are and cut coners for what ever reasons.
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To brand police officers as lazy ‘today’ is offensive. You do a disservice to the many thousands of officers that spend their day cleaning up society’s mess. Broad brush accusations do little to encourage intelligent debate on serious issues.
It is the us vs them mentality that engenders hostility and venom. The average officer is no different than the average lawyer, paramedic, or other service personnel who try to make a difference in society. All these people have families, relatives, friends, homes, schools etc., and probably know better than anyone how the ’system’ works, or not. Last I looked, the money was not that great.
They are also no different in they have their share of foibles as well, probably less in percentage than society as a whole.
Try and follow the bouncing ball of the legal system Gendai, and examine the minutiae of decisions that have caused us to be in this state.
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Gendai,
Your comment actually shows quite a bit of ignorance to the issue. Get Real understands the situation. Canadian Police have been forced by the courts to use agents because of dozens of bad judgments that limit the use of other legitimate police techniques. Managing an agent is one of the largest and hardest tasks that could ever be given to a police officer. Obviously you are unaware of what kind of time and energy it takes.
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GetReal could it be that police today are just plain lazy and while collecting the big pay checks look at the easy way out of things, would it
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The ever increasing reliance on criminals as agents of the state will continue to raise significant problems. This reliance stems from the inability to utilize past, or common sense methods for investigation due to shackling case law, and the ever present ‘curb the power of the state’ attitude. So you hire scumbags to catch scumbags. Then the courts expect the agents to be some kind of saints and have reservations about their testimony, creditability and motives.
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How about, most people that enter witness protection are criminals that need constant babysitting to keep them from getting killed… “one partner has all the control”… because in these cases the “other partner” generally lacks common sense and the normal ability of rational people to keep himself from getting in trouble and killed.
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‘One partner has all the control … and does not care about the pain or hurt that the rest of the family suffers.”
Truer words were never spoken…
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