New Glasgow, N.S. (Halifax Chronicle Herald) – A Pictou County Mountie charged with stealing gasoline last year has been accused of shoplifting from a New Glasgow department store.
New Glasgow police charged RCMP Const. Blair Francis Gorman, 42, with theft under $5,000 this week after investigating a weekend complaint from the town’s Wal-Mart store.
The suspended officer will be arraigned in New Glasgow provincial court March 31.
Const. Gorman was also charged last year with stealing gasoline from the federal government, defrauding the federal government through unauthorized use of a special credit card and breach of trust by a peace officer between April 20 and July 14.
He was stationed in the Pictou County office of the Pictou County District RCMP at the time of the alleged offences.
Const. Gorman chose trial by Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge alone and will have a preliminary hearing in New Glasgow provincial court April 16.
Sgt. Mark Gallagher, provincial RCMP spokesman, said Thursday that Const. Gorman was suspended in July 2007 after the investigation into the first series of alleged offences.
“This individual is now suspended with pay and is not working in any capacity for the RCMP,” he said, adding another internal code of conduct investigation will be held regarding the latest charge.
yeah well the fact his wife has shoplifted before, the fact he has taken the blame for a car accident (thus causing fraud to the insurance company) makes me wonder about him. Plus the fact he is manipulating someone I care about to server all ties with her family and us her friends well then…
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Deepthroat makes a good point on how it is too difficult to get rid of the rotten apples. Yes, things have gone completely overboard.
However, the process should never be so streamlined as to deny someone due process. A system without a fair process is open to all kinds of abuses.
The individual in question brought up the fact that he was harassed and the charges against him are trumped up.. Based on the pattern of aforementioned things and wearing his red serge when no longer a member shows a pattern of poor judgement. No matter how much stress one is getting from harassment, it can’t justify what has occurred.
Don’t get me wrong. There is lots of really bad harassment in the organization, and not the beneficial type that promotes excellence which centers around the team concept, but rather the I/Me concept.
The force needs a lot more training in what constitutes peer pressure and what is character assassination. It should spend less time spying out political incorrectness. When it starts to have some credibility in how it’s investigations are conducted, than people like Blair Francais Gorman will have a much smaller soapbox to stand on.
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There was a time when the RCMP would simply fire such a moron, clear out his locker and send on his way. Now you have all the human rights tribunals, Canadian Labour Code, Federal Court decisions, ad naseum. To say nothing of a line of lawyers filled with righteous indignation, ready to take up your cause regardless of how feeble it may be. Welcome to what we made it..
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because he might be posting here I will not go into details though I promise when I can I will. Let’s just say there is a personal connection.
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jefrbs, I believe that the individual in question has been posting here under a psudeonym.
EXCOP, what’s your opinion of this story?
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I can only say so much but the office in question is known by friends of mine. Let’s just say his unethical behavior goes much deeper then what is currently known and I hope in time it will all come out. Because of people involved I cannot say more. But let’s just say I pray he is sent away where he can no longer do harm.
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Thousand of shades of gray eh!
That explains why it`s no longer cut and dry, black and white, good and evil; it`s now moved in the Thousands of shades of gray… no wonder it`s taking so long.
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The system works the same for everybody there Gendai. There are some variations on the internal side dependent on the collective agreement between employer and employee with respect to procedures. For example, unions have their own set of guidelines to follow when their members are involved with a management, criminal, or legal dispute.
However, the law is always the same. You are innocent until proven guilty. Some employers guidelines allow them certain latitudes and others do not. The severity of the offence usually dictates the breadth of the employers response. The response will be dictated by the collective agreement.
To give you an example you may understand, if you were to take an automatic weapon and gun down a restaurant full of patrons, your employer would be able to take more action against you initially, as opposed to an allegation of shoplifting a candy bar.
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Gendai, that is quite the diatribe you have going on here!
I think what Get Real is trying to say is that this isn’t a black and white issue, with a thousand shades of grey. In a perfect world things would not come to suspension with pay because the criminal courts would properly do the job.
An employee has rights and the courts not processing cases fast enough is the root of the problem and a condition employers are forced to work around.
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I think I understand now
Justice must be done in a certain way when it comes to certain people and another way when it comes to others. I think Justice should not only be done here but Justice I`m told should also be preceived to have been done and in the cases of the National Police Force neither is done.
Is this what you mean.
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Very simple. Only the most serious crimes rate suspension without pay. You are actually innocent until proven guilty. If there was no conviction and you had suspended someone without pay the lawsuit following would be punishing to the employer. The criminal investigation is part and parcel of any internal proceeding. You cannot put the cart before the horse or you will be sued. Case in point the lawsuit by the officer in BC who was not convicted in criminal court and not tried in their administrative proceeding. However, the abuse of process is obviously serious enough to get sued over.
The criminal process is too long. If it had been heard into the first charges in a timely manner, he would no doubt have been fired and thus no repeat of criminality payed for by our tax dollars subsequent to that.
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I would venture to guess the reason his is suspended with pay is because the above report says that he has only been “charged” and not convicted of the crime.
This is one of those inbetween cases where there is enough of a question of his integrity, but not a definitive answer. Innocent until proven guilty.
However, this begs the question that if it is an internal matter why couldn’t he be found guilty in service court and then suspended without pay? Yeah, I would like to know how suspensions are broken down and what qualifies with pay and without pay.
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So why is this sthief till being paid with our TAX DOLLARS
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