Nat Post provides some examples of Mountie misconduct

[JohnyCanuck]

In response to a National Post request for information, the RCMP's Adjudications Directorate in Ottawa this week released 84 internal adjudication board decisions rendered across Canada from January 2008. The decisions rely on witness testimonies, admissions of fact and proof of misconduct, and include sanctions against individual Mounties. Brian Hutchinson summarizes 12 of the 84 adjudication board decisions and a summary of one decision under appeal.

HQ DIVISION: OTTAWA

In September 2005, off-duty Constable Michael Dudas entered a McDonald's restaurant drive-through lane and instigated an angry verbal exchange with three young pedestrians placing an order in front of him. In what an RCMP adjudication board called "a sudden and violent attack," Const. Dudas left his truck, grabbed one of the young women and punched her in the face. She fell to the ground where she lay "bleeding profusely." Four of her teeth were fractured as a result of the attack. The constable returned to his truck and left the scene without offering any assistance to his victim. He pleaded guilty in provincial court to common assault and received a suspended sentence with a one-year probation order. In June 2008 the RCMP adjudication board docked him 10 days pay. Const. Dudas remains on active duty in the National Capital Region.

C DIVISION: MONTREAL

In September 2006, a female passerby witnessed a constable openly masturbating in his unmarked police vehicle. The constable was supposed to be conducting surveillance in a counterfeiting investigation. According to a March 2009 RCMP adjudication board decision, the constable "simply smiled" at the passerby "and kept on masturbating." The passerby called the municipal police. The constable received a summons to appear in court on the matter. "A diversion agreement was reached with the Crown Attorney of Quebec on the basis of psychological assessments," says the adjudication board decision, adding that the constable was determined by doctors to be "fixated on auto-eroticism and compulsive masturbatory activity caused by stress." The RCMP docked him 10 days pay and recommended that he receive professional counselling. He remains on active duty in Montreal.

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[JohnyCanuck]

1. Paul Kennedy And Robert Dziejanski. The RCMP's William Elliott And More

by Robin Mathews

Battle lines appear to be hardening. Read the last paragraph of the Globe and Mail editorial (Dec 9 09 A16) on the Dziekanski fiasco:

“The RCMP brutally killed a new-comer to Canada, put out fake information into the public sphere while investigating themselves, then refused to correct the record and held on to the video that showed the horrible truth. The loss of public trust is no mystery.”

The Globe and Mail doesn’t mention that top man at the RCMP, William Elliott, telephoned the men involved to express solidarity with them. They are men whose conduct Paul Kennedy (with comic understatement) says in his 208-page Report “fell short of that (conduct) expected of members of the RCMP”.

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Perhaps, at the other end of the scale, angry motorcyclists who rallied at Surrey provincial courthouse Tuesday carried too extreme a sign, saying “RCMP Canada’s biggest criminal organization”. Motorcyclists were there because Corporal Benjamin (Monty) Robinson seems to have been given special treatment by Crown prosecutors. Recommended for a charge of impaired driving by the Delta Police after he had hit and killed motorcyclist Orion Hutchinson on October 25, 2008, the charge was changed to the lighter “obstruction of justice”. That kind of action by the Crown appears to happen all too often in cases involving the RCMP.

The same Robinson is singled out in Paul Kennedy’s 208-page report – as senior officer in the Dziekanski disaster – for failing to take charge (implying, I suggest, a failure to regulate action to prevent death).

The population of B.C. (and of Canada and the world) is largely of the view that criminal charges should be laid in the Dziekanski affair.

But the B.C. Criminal Justice Branch, which decided not to lay charges earlier, is still holding to its decision – despite a growing flood of incriminating evidence in the matter.

And so Corporal Benjamin Robinson seems, now, to have been twice protected from facing criminal charges others believe his actions warrant. The actions in which Robinson has been involved are extreme – both involving the death of innocent people.


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