RCMP

 

BC RCMP’s crisis of confidence  National Post  It almost seems a lost notion now: public confidence in police. Especially in British Columbia, where the image of men and women behind the badge takes one drubbing after another. A Vancouver police officer is stopped, for allegedly driving while drunk …

 

One of the too many false reasons too many patients die in Hospitals is that almost none of the medical staff feel any personal, real, negative repercussions themselves.  That also includes the too many bad cops we seem to have now too, and bad civil and public servants too, bad politicians..

 

One of the best way that I have discovered to get to know what a  person is really like, is work with him  just for one whole day,.. and   what   you now saw next.. lying, bullying, control freak..

 Decision not to charge in taser case stands on ever more shaky ground  Globe and Mail – Recent allegations of fraudulent statements and a planned cover-up are leading to loud calls for a new look at the December decision by the BC Crown counsel’s office to clear the four RCMP officers involved in the tragic encounter with Polish immigrant …

 

RCMP attempts to deflect blame hurt all officers  StarPhoenix – In a 1970s satire, the Monty Python group demonstrated how one goes about protecting oneself when attacked by someone wielding a banana. John Cleese, playing the role of the sergeant major, orders Graham Chapman to attack him with a banana, …

 

 A question of trust  Canada.com – ‎Mar 6, 2009‎ Across Canada, people are in jail because courts relied on what they believed to be accurate accounts of events by trained RCMP officers, supported by their notes made at the time. The Dziekanski inquiry is raising troubling questions about the …

 

Inquiry zaps RCMP credibility  Canoe.ca –  By BILL KAUFMANN I honestly thought we’d hear something mitigating from those Richmond, BC Mounties — at least a few words to cast a shred of doubt on the damning video. As an indictment, their words almost equal Paul Pritchard’s video, …

  

 

 All in a day’s police work Langley AdvanceNews –  We didn’t hear (or didn’t notice) the car backfires off in the distance that got things started. We heard sirens – a lot of sirens – converging on an intersection right below our office windows. Suddenly, there were police officers everywhere, …

 

RCMP blundering The Gazette (Montreal) –  I have been a policeman on two continents and still cannot understand the continuing blunders of the RCMP. Time after time they manage to mess things up despite – or because of – their vaunted training in Regina. The fiasco at the Vancouver airport …

 

 YVR death proves cops bad at investigating cops  Vancouver Courier – Now that we have the testimony by RCMP Const. Kwesi Millington at the Braidwood Commission of Inquiry in the events leading to the death of Robert Dziekanski Oct. 14, 2007, it’s worth taking a step back. Let’s look at the report produced by the …

 

RCMP need government oversight Calgary Herald –  By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun March 8, 2009 4:06 AM The jarring testimony that has been presented at the Braidwood inquiry suggests it’s time for greater government oversight of the RCMP. The inquiry, currently on a two-week break, isn’t just a test …

 

Bystander video of Tasering death crucial piece of evidence Canada.com –  By Suzanne Fournier, Canwest News ServiceMarch 8, 2009 VANCOUVER- The bystander video of the Tasering death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski has been viewed around the world, but it has never been more invaluable than in the last seven weeks at …

 

‘RCMP has been terribly damaged’: former police officer Vancouver Sun –  By Suzanne Fournier, Canwest News ServiceMarch 7, 2009 Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died after being Tasered five times by RCMP officers at Vancouver international Airport in 2007. VANCOUVER — The stark contradictions between the videotape of …

 

Tainting the serge Winnipeg Sun –  By KEVIN ENGSTROM You have to wonder what other office supplies are considered dangerous by RCMP Const. Kwesi Millington. If a dude armed with a stapler causes him and three other armed Mounties wearing bulletproof vests to fear for their safety, …

 

BC RCMP’s crisis of confidence National Post –  It almost seems a lost notion now: public confidence in police. Especially in British Columbia, where the image of men and women behind the badge takes one drubbing after another. A Vancouver police officer is stopped, for allegedly driving while drunk …

 

How could this happen in Canada? Peterborough Examiner –  With the Braidwood Inquiry into the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski after he was hit by a stun gun now adjourned until March 23, Canadians are left asking the same questions they’ve had from the start. How could this happen? …

 

 

Dziekanski left Poland for a new life in Canada Canada.com –  By Suzanne Fournier, Canwest News ServiceMarch 8, 2009 VANCOUVER – He was a gentle, solitary man with a passion for geography. He never left Poland until he made the huge decision to join his beloved mother in Canada. On Oct. 13, 2007, …

 

 

Every day police officers leave their homes and families and put their lives on the line for a salary, cause this is what they are being paid for, hired for and this does not mean that they are now even free of any negative criticism while they are doing their paid  duties, especially when there are so many outstanding questions regarding their    inappropriate use of authority, force by too many police officers,  plus the unacceptable false  cover ups of their wrong doings and their unacceptable lying now  too.  Plus basically  nothing has even changed in the Vancouver airport customs area since the RCMP’s death of the police immigrant Dziekanski.

 

and will Former West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed the new BC solicitor general and public safety minister cover up for his bad Police buddies too? And there are still concerns about Liberal candidate Kash Heed and his former role as West Vancouver police chief and his unexpected retirement from the force less than two years into his contract, “There’s still a lot of anger about a $40,000 severance payout even though he voluntarily quit in February, leaving many unanswered questions about his status on the force,”  to supposedly avoid legal prosecution too. “The cops have a responsibility to follow moral leadership and let me tell you, the cops do not have that here [in Abbotsford] “NDP candidate for Abbotsford South, Bonnie Rai. These are all valid issues, concerns too. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/story/2009/05/05/bc-political-candidates-police-surrey-vancouver.html  

Cops vs. staplers reveals global arms race danger Vancouver Courier –  “When you’re walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don’t come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit….” If there’s anything we’ve learned from RCMP testimony at the Braidwood Inquiry into the …