During the month of December 2012, the following news stories were published relating to female police officers in Canada.
These articles are below for your review:
Members of the House Standing Committee on the Status of Women are getting a “sanitized version” of how the RCMP deals with claims of harassment by its own officers, says a former Mountie who reached an out of court settlement with the RCMP in 2009.
“From my perspective, they really need to see the faces of the victims,” Sherry Benson-Podolchuck told The Hill Times. “You need to have a face of what a victim looks like, and then you really get the impact of how much damage is done to somebody who suffers from harassment.” Read more
Public Opinion Of RCMP’s Gender Sensitivity Nosedives In New Poll – Canadians hold the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s services and importance in high regard but the country’s opinion of the national police service’s sensitivity toward women has nosedived this past year, a new survey says.
Just 65 per cent of Canadians think the RCMP is sensitive to needs of women – a 17 per cent drop from 2011 and the biggest year-over-year change for any of the 34 statements about general perceptions of the policing services that were posed to the respondents, according to an annual survey of public attitudes to the RCMP. Read more
RCMP Launch Charter Challenge – RCMP Sgt. Joanne Fraser and two other female RCMP officers have launched a Charter challenge in Federal Court on behalf of all female RCMP officers. They say women who arranged job sharing opportunities or who work part-time in order to accommodate family life are treated unfairly because they can’t buy back the time towards their pension. Read more
