Amanda Wawryk (Globe and Mail via News1130) – It looks like the Kelowna RCMP has more to worry about than just that video of an officer kicking a man in the face.
That complaint is just one of 22 made against officers in the Okanagan city last year. Mounties in Kelowna had more complaints than any other RCMP detachment in BC last year.
According to the Globe and Mail, Surrey RCMP had about the same number of complaints, but that detachment has nearly four times as many officers.
The numbers from police and the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP show Coquitlam, whose contingent of RCMP officers is similar in size to that of Kelowna, had just seven complaints.
At least not in use of force complaints, Surrey leads there. Mind you they also have over 600 officers.
The CPC has stats in your area of inquiry.
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I think we’d really like to know how many of those complaints were founded. The number of complaints made really tells us nothing. No question some complaints against the police are justified. But some members of the public make complaints for other reasons: in an effort to cause trouble for the member; in the hope of getting a charge or ticket dropped; and simply because they can. I’ve known people who have made complaints about a member’s conduct only to immediately withdraw the complaint when they learn that there was a camera in the police car, or when the video record shows that the member acted correctly.
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