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As she should,the RCMP showed how inept they are and they made all the main points of this story public.Some more should be leaving the force after this.

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The female officers should take note of how the system works. In the future when they are sexually harrassed by fellow officers just haul out their billy clubs beat the shit out of them. The system can protect the females then and they will have punished (and maybe educated) their abusers.

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The RCMP is no different than any organization in that you cannot take away ones livelihood until there is due process. There is a small matter of presumed innocence until proven guilty. It works for you and everybody else. Unless you are of the opinion that because they are police officers, the Charter should be suspended until the appropriate process is complete?

The RCMP does have provision for suspension without pay, reserved for the most serious of offences, based on a Prima facie case before due process. (Which is yet to be challenged in court.)

Recent case you can read on the Federal Court website:

http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2007/2007fc543/2007fc543.html

This will show you what happens when due process is not followed. I shudder to think how much this has cost in tax dollars. In the final analysis, the two cops in the case were suspended without pay later in the process. Both are now back to work and will no doubt benefit from civil proceedings as a result.

I hardly think that the victim in this harassment case, namely one of their own, will end up with nothing. We will however probably not be privy to the amount of money she gets.

Just for your information leave without pay is not like being suspended without pay. Leave without pay is a right exercised by the individual to temporarily separate themselves from the organization willingly.

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Forget the revelation it just won’t happen.
Members caught doing something wrong in the force get leave with pay while their victims get nothing, is this justice?

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The RCMP has once again shown their true colors and failed the Rank and File members. After reading this account of the action taken by upper management, no one will be held accountable for this investigation. The act in it self goes on every day in the force by NCOs and Officers who think their above everyone else and can treat members of the lower ranks this way. They (being the RCMP management) let this complaint lag for over the one year period then they are quick to quote policy, saying that there is nothing they can do because they could not complete there investigation within the one year allowable time frame under the RCMP Act. The question that this article should focus on is why this investigation took over a year, when a murder investigation can be completed and before the courts within a year so what happened in this case.
To Asst. Commissioner Dale McGowan and Chief Supt. Garry Jay, you should be held accountable for your actions in this investigation. It happened on your watch. Does the RCMP still hand out the big bonuses, to members above the rank of Chief Supt., if so, you both should be pulling your hands back at the end of the year, you have let this member down and every other member of the Force who is treated this way daily.
The only action the RCMP will take on this file will be to pay Const. Lehne out at some point and place her on a gag order so that she cannot speak about this compliant any further. Unfortunately the damage has already been done.
My only question to Const. Laura Lehne, why are you on leave without pay, if you are off due to stress, you should be on medical leave and getting paid by the force.
Maybe one day, The Office of the Auditor General of Canada will audit the RCMP and let the Canadian people in on just how much money is paid out to quite members treated like this
And the Commissioner wonders why the RCMP is getting the bad press that they are.

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful and caring people who have emailed me in the past. I receive so many great emails from around the world and I apologize to those that I am not able to personally respond to. Recently my computer hard drive crashed and thousands of email letters were lost along with contact information. I personally no longer own a pc. I decided to take a break from it for a while – a pc can be a great resource, but it can also be a source of information overload. One of the reasons that we started this web site is so that we can communicate with, and provide some information to, a lot of people all at once instead of on an individual basis.

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Some women received a large settlement in Alberta not too long ago in such a case. It would appear that the civil remedy may prove to be the only one in the end.

Her complaint should have been copied to the Human Rights process immediately. The complaints commission for the RCMP seems to be strangely silent on this one.

Almost 5 years for adjudication is unacceptable, no matter the outcome.

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This is a violation of her Human Rights…. she is intitled to Justice here in Canada and she has been denied that right…..

Read the Charter of Rights….

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