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When you consider how corrupt the RCMP have been for so long, you can imagine how little they do to prevent local police forces from abusing their authority such as the incompetent Toronto Police or Ontario Provincial Police, and worse, how fully incompetent they are in tracking terrorists.
Not just a National, but a global embarrassment.
RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years
The head of the RCMP admitted that Canada’s national police force neglected to keep tabs on hundreds of cases of serious misconduct committed by Mounties across the country for years.
Commissioner Bob Paulson acknowledged that an access to information request by CBC News inadvertently revealed that not even senior leaders in the RCMP could say with confidence whether incidents of misconduct that include assaults, impaired driving and fraud were a problem in the force.....
Serious problem in management
Walter Kostekyj, a Vancouver lawyer and former RCMP officer himself, was astonished.
"It tells you there's a serious problem in management," Kostekyj said.
"How would they measure their training? How would they measure who they're selecting to be a police officer if they're not keeping track of who it is they're having problems with?"
Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association called it irresponsible.
"The RCMP is an organization charged with keeping track of crime right across the country," Paterson said.
"And yet within their own organization, they had no way, short of spending four years pulling this research together, knowing the rate at which their officers were committing very serious misconduct.
"Senior leaders in Ottawa, and here in British Columbia would not have been able to say with any confidence, do we have a problem or do we not have a problem with the most serious kinds of misconduct with our force. They just didn't have that information."
Not just a National, but a global embarrassment.
RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years
The head of the RCMP admitted that Canada’s national police force neglected to keep tabs on hundreds of cases of serious misconduct committed by Mounties across the country for years.
Commissioner Bob Paulson acknowledged that an access to information request by CBC News inadvertently revealed that not even senior leaders in the RCMP could say with confidence whether incidents of misconduct that include assaults, impaired driving and fraud were a problem in the force.....
Serious problem in management
Walter Kostekyj, a Vancouver lawyer and former RCMP officer himself, was astonished.
"It tells you there's a serious problem in management," Kostekyj said.
"How would they measure their training? How would they measure who they're selecting to be a police officer if they're not keeping track of who it is they're having problems with?"
Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association called it irresponsible.
"The RCMP is an organization charged with keeping track of crime right across the country," Paterson said.
"And yet within their own organization, they had no way, short of spending four years pulling this research together, knowing the rate at which their officers were committing very serious misconduct.
"Senior leaders in Ottawa, and here in British Columbia would not have been able to say with any confidence, do we have a problem or do we not have a problem with the most serious kinds of misconduct with our force. They just didn't have that information."
