(CBC) - RCMP are investigating after two campus officers were caught on film playfully posing with young women and lending them handcuffs while on duty, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday night.
Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said the RCMP are “very concerned” about the case and are taking it seriously.
Photos obtained by CBC News show the two officers from the University of British Columbia detachment posing with a group of women around the officers’ squad car on July 1.
Davor Kovac, a fourth-year business student at UBC, said he witnessed the two RCMP officers pulling up to a McDonald’s on campus near a bus stop and questioning the women about open alcohol.
“All of a sudden the girls started flirting with them uncontrollably,” Kovac said Thursday night. “Then they’re like, ‘Can you put us in handcuffs? Can we see your nightstick?’ They just started posing for pictures right there.”
“I said, just loud enough so they can hear me, ‘This is the most unprofessional thing I have even seen,’” Kovac claimed.
The two RCMP officers continued to take photos for 10 minutes and only stopped long enough to ask Kovac to pour out his drink, he said.
“So I poured it out and then he went right back to posing with the girls,” Kovac said.
This latest incident follows an Oct. 1 story CBC News broke that revealed Canada Border Services Agency officers in B.C. had posted photographs of themselves drinking while in uniform, calling Prime Minister Harper a serial killer, and referring to French Canadians as “f—ing bastards” — all on the website Facebook.
5 responses so far ↓
1 speaking my mind // Oct 13, 2007 at 00:08
Boys will be boys… Why is this being reported by the national news media? Though not professional, in the whole scheme of things it is really not that bad considering what has been going on in the RCMP.
2 Clarence // Oct 13, 2007 at 08:59
The pictures are better than the article… the girls in the police cruiser while the cruiser lights were flashing was the best one
Anyone know what happen to the officers if they booked off and went missing in action…. or if they took the party to the NCO’s house?
This one is funny!
3 Ethan Erkiletian // Oct 13, 2007 at 11:42
Police being friendly, personable and diffusing a situation with drunk youngin’s? How dare they be so horrible.
The RCMP has a number of faults. Reporting on this and classifying it as scandalous is just stupid in my opinion. There was no truly untoward activity on the part f the police and though I certainly would prefer that they handled themselves with some more professional decorum, this is far from troubling.
4 Clarence // Oct 13, 2007 at 16:15
Well all I can say is those UBC girls got those RCMP guys but good… posing with a smile to booth, how dense.. hehehehe
This is got to be the best blond joke ever they even forgot they were working and thought they were posing for a calendar or something… while being paid with tax dollars. Just makes me smile Anon
What the next issue going to be like - hehehehe
5 Clarence // Oct 14, 2007 at 14:42
So FUNNY!
:-))
Just add to the list of RCMP denials
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