Using RCMP aircraft to poach caribou, leaving a loaded gun at a gas station, sexual offences involving children and not responding to calls for help are among 700 cases over the last five years where the RCMP found its employees had broken its rules or the law.
Analysis of RCMP internal disciplinary data, obtained under Access to Information by CBC/Radio-Canada, reveals that more than half of complaints against members of the force were found to be justified, and also that there was wide latitude in the severity of punishments handed out.
For instance, one Mountie who “provided false information to his superior pertaining to his physical fitness test” was docked two weeks of annual leave. But another, accused of pepper-spraying an arrested individual who was tied to a chair “while in full restraints” in a jail cell, was ordered to undergo counselling and special training.
But the data also suggests the Mounties are making progress on at least one front: complaints of use of excessive force in carrying out their duties. – READ MORE
