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The City’s Former Highest Ranking Female Police Officer Reflects On Her Career In Edmonton

                  After a 27-year career with Edmonton Police Service, Danielle Campbell, a woman who broke down barriers within the force and rose to one of its highest ranks, has made the move to assistant professor at MacEwan University. In 1989, Campbell enrolled in training with Edmonton police because […]

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Three Female Police Officers Injured In Another Night Of Sickening Sydney Violence

                  A FEMALE police officer is in Royal Prince Alfred hospital after she was attacked during an arrest of four males following a home invasion in Sydney’s inner-west last night. At 12:30am on Saturday, four males armed with iron bars stormed the courtyard of a complex on […]

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Merlo Davidson Settlement

                  “All regular and civilian members, as well as public service employees who worked for, or still work for, the RCMP since 1974 should review this article and video. There will be a time limit on the opportunity to participate, so please, everyone who is effected, or […]

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Harassment At RCMP A ‘Deep-Seated’ Problem, Says Ralph Goodale

                  With the RCMP soon to face another class-action harassment lawsuit, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said it’s clear the RCMP has work to do on developing a healthy, respectful workplace. “This is obviously a deep-seated problem and one that the government of Canada is absolutely determined […]

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RCMP’s Plan Is To Drain Female Accusers Dry, Not Settle

                  OTTAWA — To RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, the seemingly endless stream of lawsuits launched by female officers on his force must seem like the drip, drip, drip of water torture. He will undoubtedly not see these lawsuits as courageous or justifiable, but they most assuredly are. […]

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Calgary Police Service Faces Allegations Of Harassment And Intimidation

                  If you’ve ever wondered why women are reluctant to bring forward allegations of sexual harassment, look no further than the furor unleashed when 15 female police officers contacted city councillor and police commissioner Diane Colley-Urquhart to discuss sexual harassment and the culture of intimidation and retaliation […]

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Women In Blue: Halifax Police Officer Says It’s Uniform First, Gender Secondary

                  When Const. Alicia Joseph walks down the street, she says people see the uniform first and her gender second. Although she knows it’s not always been that way. In her 10 years of policing (which has included roles like patrol, walking the downtown beat, media relations […]

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Female Manlius Police Officer Charges Workplace Harassment, Discrimination

                  MANLIUS, NY – A Manlius police officer has filed legal papers in which she alleges she was sexually harassed, exposed to a hostile work environment and discriminated against at the town police department. Kerry Wolongevicz, 35, who has worked in law enforcement for eight years – […]

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Police Environment ‘Poison’ For Women Officers, Tribunal Told

                  There was the time she says her staff sergeant said, in front of several male colleagues, that he’d spank her later in private. There was the time she says Facebook photos of her and other female officers in bikinis were shown around 23 Division. There was […]

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RCMP harassment suit settlement: Here’s what you need to know

        “It is wonderful that the RCMP has shorn up the holes in its discipline system. That alone won’t change a culture.” – Jane Hall     Former Mountie Janet Merlo called it a great day for “women in Canada” after RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson offered a tearful apology to hundreds of […]

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