(Vancouver Province) – A former RCMP murder investigator involved in the high-profile “Surrey Six” slayings has pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud the Mounties with a fake $700 overtime bill.
Steven Perreault, 39, a four-year Mountie and former member of the regional Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, has been fined $500, placed on probation for a year and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.
According to the reasons for sentence of Judge Brian Bastin in Vancouver Provincial Court, Perreault submitted the fake claim for overtime for work done in August 2009. He showed his claim to a fellow worker who knew he hadn’t worked on the day claimed and who then reported him.
Perreault was then shunned by his co-workers and transferred to the Chilliwack RCMP detachment.
Perreault was driven to submit the fake claim because of money troubles. His fiancee wanted him to spend more time with her and financial pressure was causing him to work many hours of overtime.
His fiancee has since left him and he has filed for personal bankruptcy.
The Crown had been asking for a
two-month prison sentence with one year’s probation, arguing that Perreault, as a police officer, should be held to a higher standard.
If Perreault fulfils the conditions of his sentence, he will receive a discharge, leaving him without a criminal record. But he still faces an internal RCMP disciplinary investigation.
Yes that is exactly what they are saying. The use of the conditional discharge is a regular feature of the legal system. Especially with first time offenders, the courts are generally lenient with them depending on the circumstances. There is also a move towards “restorative justice” in some cases in which the offender meets with the affected parties and an informal punishment is worked out, before anything goes to a court. Remember, the accent is on rehabilitation, not punishment. You should check this out and get a feel for it: http://www.crcvc.ca/docs/restjust.pdf
Did you inquire and see if any charges were laid and what the outcome was, or are you just speculating that nothing happened because of who they were? Sounds like you are engaged in store security work.
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Why would you say probably not? The RCMP is famous for its “piling on” mentality when it comes to ferreting what an internally accused person has done in the past, and adding more to the issue.
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Sounds to me when he is discharged from the offence that no record will be kept. I think this is what they are saying here.
I wonder if that applies to shoplifters caught stealing or they just get charged, convicted and they get to keep their record?
I caught the adult daughter of a staff Sgr of the RCMP once shoplifting in a grocery store, she walked right out with a whole heaping cart full of groceries bagged and everything right in front of the owner and said by to him as she walked out into my ID and I caught the son of the Deputy Chief walking out of Canadian tire with a 70 dollar tennis racket in that same town also but I don’t think anything happen.
Would this be a good example of the standards we see applied today?
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If he received a dischange for attempting to defraud the RCMP of 700 dollars would they look into past claims to see if he did this before, probably not?
Well lets see if this one comes up again and what the internal RCMP disciplinary investigation will come up with?
I think it’s the last we’ll hear of this one.
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