Sunny Dhillon, Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) – An RCMP officer involved in the death of Robert Dziekansi should find out in the next month whether he will face charges for impaired and dangerous driving in the unrelated death of a motorcyclist, a Crown spokesman says.
Delta police said Tuesday they have finished their investigation into the October 2008 crash and have recommended two charges against Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson, who was off-duty when a Jeep collided with a motorcycle.
Orion Hutchinson, 21, was killed. He had recently completed a trades program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and was days away from a new job when he was thrown from the motorcycle.
Robinson was arrested at the scene.
Delta police announced Tuesday that they have finally forwarded their report to the Crown.
“The Delta police are now awaiting charge approval on the recommended charges against the off-duty RCMP officer, Monty Robinson, of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death,” Const. Sharlene Brooks said.
Neil MacKenzie, a spokesman for the Criminal Justice Branch, said the Crown’s review of the report should be completed within the next month.
RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields said Robinson was suspended with pay following the crash and remains so.
“That pay status is currently under review,” Shields said, though he did not know when that review might be complete.
Robinson was the most senior of the four RCMP officers involved in Dziekanski’s death at Vancouver airport in October 2007.
His lawyer could not be reached for comment Tuesday regarding the Delta police department’s findings.
Robinson testified in March at a public inquiry that he gave the order to stun the Polish man with a Taser.
Police came under fire earlier this year after scheduled court dates were delayed and charges failed to be laid in Hutchinson’s death month after month.
Delta police said they had not received all the information and reports required by the Crown to lay charges in the case.
The force initially recommended charges months ago, including driving with a blood-alcohol level over .08. Additional materials requested by the Crown were finally submitted Monday.
Brooks said it’s the force’s duty and responsibility to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
“Essentially, what we’re dealing with here is a homicide and by their very nature, they’re complex and take a considerable amount of time,” she said.
“Investigations don’t flow in a nice tidy package.”
When asked if the delay in filing charges highlights the difficulty in police investigating police, Brooks said the force is aware of the gravity of the situation.
“We know that it’s not only the public’s expectation that the Delta police conduct a thorough and impartial and professional investigation, it’s our objective in each and every case and this was no different,” she said.
Brooks said investigators have been in contact with Hutchinson’s family and that they are still grieving a significant loss.
The motor vehicles branch suspended Robinson’s driver’s licence for 90 days following the crash – a suspension he tried unsuccessfully to appeal.
The officer argued in B.C. Supreme Court in March that a motor vehicles adjudicator didn’t properly consider his statement that he left the scene of the collision, had two shots of vodka, and then returned to the scene.
Presumption of innocence?? This guy was all cought up in lies during his last time in court, as were his buddies,presume he is lying now!! Off work with pay, just as you or me would be, right.
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Spot on MS.
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To answer your question DT, I am, I guess, ’somewhat mollified’ by the charges being laid. From what I read about the case, the charges are justified. Its now out of the police’s hands and in the hands of the Crown’s prosecuters.
I guess my point was that the system seems to be working the way it should and we should not get all upset and angry that it took awhile for the charges to be laid. I also think that we have to remind ouselves that this guy has the same rights we all do, regardless of our personal feeling about his actions.
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There is not now, and never will be, a magic formula for communicating disconcerting events involving authorities. Any mistakes are immediately pounced upon as “cover up”. Any withholding of information until it is sorted out is “cover up”. Any erroneous information passed along without verification beforehand is branded “lies and cover up”. Any mistakes, serious or not, are branded as “incompetence”. Assertion of legal rights by authorities is branded as trying to evade responsibility and underhanded, or a “dirty game”. It is a no win situation, reminiscent of elementary school taunting, primarily engaged in by the uneducated. A lot of the adjudications called for by such ilk disregard the processes in place, the legal aspects and most certainly the law of unintended consequences.
You have reason to be concerned with the events MS, but are you really angry and are now somewhat mollified by charges being laid? Or did I misread your post?
I am glad you are supporter of due process, vis a vis, the presumption of innocence.
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I’m kind of ticked off with this guys actions both in this case and in the Dzienkanski incident but the Delta municipal police have reccomended charges and it is likely that the Crown will follow through with said charges. We often forget that in real life, criminal investigations are not wrapped up in 60 minutes discounting commercial breaks. They take time. Especially in a media-sensistive case like this one was.
And despite what we may think about the man’s actions in this case and at YVR, he is still innocent until proven guilty. Nuff’ said.
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And to add to the mix, the RCMP kangaroo court system will be engaged to provide double jeopardy to the final outcome. A situation not applied to the general populace, because of the charter.
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You do realize that delta police did the investigation not the RCMP. Delta are not in anyway shape or form part of the RCMP or under RCMP leadership so they happened to get behind on the file because they have more pressing matters. The file got forwarded when they got all the materials together and they had time. Quit the blaming of the rcmp when this had nothing to do with them.
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Is it the force’s duty and responsibility to conduct a full and thorough investigation in all cases? YES!
I think it would be at the very least but also they probably didn’t want the charges to influence the inquiries flow just in case the charges swayed things negatively for the RCMP and they got off, so waiting two years…. was probably to their advantage and I see the RCMP and the member who killed that man had favour all around in this.
Huray for Justice in Canada – who needs to speak of third world countries when we have this kind of Justice happening here in Canada right now…. who’s monitoring these folish decissions anyways?
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