“The RCMP Veteran Women’s Council was the first to call for an independant body as an avenue to improve leadership accountablity and retore faith in the RCMP’s complaints process. Please review the four recommendations in this summary.” – Jane Hall
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veteran Women’s Council (RCMPVWC) was created on June 3rd, 2013, by the National Board of Directors for the RCMP Veteran’s Association to research and promote positive initiatives for members who are serving or veterans of the RCMP.
Members comprising the RCMP Veteran Women’s Council are neither associated, nor aligned with, any past, current or foreseeable future legal actions concerning the RCMP or its representatives.
For the purposes of this paper, “harassment” refers to three forms: personal harassment, sexual harassment, and the abuse of authority. Personal harassment and abuse of authority are the most pervasive of the three forms of harassment within the RCMP.1
It has been the observation and the experience of members of the RCMP Veteran Women’s Council (hereafter referred to as the “Council”) that most cases of harassment include a combination of two or more types of harassment and the Council believes there is a strong correlation between leadership and harassment. – READ MORE
