Alison Crawford (CBC News) – RCMP in Ottawa are investigating one of their own inspectors after two civilian employees raised complaints about inappropriate touching at a recent regimental event.
The women allege Insp. Brian Redmond groped them at a dinner held for around 100 employees at RCMP “A” Division in Ottawa on April 20.
The women have alleged Redmond, the division’s intelligence officer, got drunk and patted or slapped their rear ends.
In an emailed response to questions from CBC News, RCMP spokeswoman Lucy Shorey said Redmond has been removed from duty with pay while the force conducts a code of conduct investigation — and that as of last Thursday, his commanding officer “has served notice to the member that he is seeking to stop his pay.”
Shorey declined to make any further comments.
Redmond already has a reputation for dishonourable behaviour. CBC News obtained two previous RCMP adjudication board reports outlining how in 2000 and 2001, when Redmond ran the Mounties’ undercover training operations, he had sex with one of his female students and intimate relations with three other women.
When another candidate on the course reported the sexual relations to a supervisor, Redmond and the supervisor cooked up a scheme to ensure the man passed the course even though he had been found unsuitable for undercover duties.
The adjudication report also describes how, when the RCMP investigated those allegations, Redmond tried to intimidate one of the investigators and made false statements to two others.
At his disciplinary hearing Redmond apologized and said he had stopped drinking. But adjudicators wrote that Redmond lacked integrity, ethics and honesty.
“Any reasonable person can only wonder how Inspector Redmond could ever be objective towards female candidates in general and more particularly those with whom he had intimate relationships. His objectivity and impartiality would certainly be questioned,” the adjudicators wrote.
“For a person in authority, this is a serious character flaw.”
The board docked Redmond 25 days’ pay and transferred him to Ottawa. It wasn’t long before Redmond got into trouble again. One night in the fall of 2005, after a few drinks, Redmond was pulled over after driving on a road dedicated to Ottawa city bus traffic.
He told the transit officer he was “on the job” and tried, unsuccessfully, to talk him out of calling Ottawa Police. His licence was suspended for 12 hours.
At Redmond’s 2008 disciplinary hearing on that matter, the adjudication board found the “misconduct was minor in nature.”
“Nonetheless, we have given strong weight to the prior disciplinary action,” the board said in its decision to dock him five days’ pay.
Redmond did not respond to CBC’s request for an interview.
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One would hope that the new legislative changes would have provision for repeat offender termination. This would not be in contravention of existing labor law, but would be in line with it. Thus there would be no excuse for continuation. There should be regulations appended to the legislation which stipulate necessary procedural fairness to ensure that loophole would be closed, if the matter ended up under the aegis of the Federal Court. If they are not sure of the direction, there should be consultation with experts such have been mentioned here in the past.
Wow, what does this say to the taxpayer? 12 years of salary, benefits and relocation costs for a documented creep, groper, liar, bully and habitual drunk adjudged to lack integrity, ethics and honesty. And somehow makes Division Intelligence Officer.
This guy should have been fired when he screwed up on the undercover course … Then the impaired driving? Then this come on Paulson back up ur strong words when u took over start making some examples…
Total disgrace. …yet still kept?
Is Grouping still Allowed in the RCMP?
I remember this specific case happening in New Brunswick in 2005 when a Chief of an RCMP Detachment did this in Moncton to one of his employees wives, while drunk in a Moncton bar, right in front of everyone.
Of course the RCMP tried to sweep it under the rug as usual but Inspector Huron’s department members instead contacted a Saint John Lawyer and the lawyer contacted ATV News in Halifax and to make the story shorter he finally pled guilty, got his name placed in the messy sexual database and off he went….. somewhere else.
I wonder in 2012 what will happen now?
Anyone have a prediction to share?