Policing

Looters included undercover Egyptian police

Topics: 
Policing, Agents provocateurs, Middle East, Arab spring
Rating: 
0

Leila Fadel – February 1, 2011

CAIRO - Human Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime committing acts of violence and looting in an attempt to stoke fear of instability as demonstrations grew stronger Tuesday against the autocratic leader.

Peter Bouckaert, the emergency director at Human Rights Watch, said hospitals confirmed that they received several wounded looters shot by the army carrying police identification cards. They also found several cases of looters and vandals in Cairo and Alexandria with police identification cards. He added that it was "unexplainable" that thousands of prisoners escaped from prisons over the weekend.

The making of a Mountie massacre

Topics: 
RCMP, Policing
Rating: 
0

Robert Marshall – January 30, 2011

The Mayerthorpe massacre of four young men was a true Canadian disaster. Four Mounties, full of piss and vinegar, gunned down by the local lunatic, James Roszko, while guarding the scene of the madman's crimes – some stolen car parts and a petite marijuana grow op.

The Alberta fatality inquiry into the deaths of Peter Schiemann, Brock Myroll, Leo Johnston and Anthony Gordon is winding down. In the months ahead, consideration will be given to how this black spot in history could ever have happened.

Moscow bombings and Russian corruption

Topics: 
Corruption, Policing, Terrorism, Government negligence, Russia
Rating: 
1

Moscow bomb attacks in context: Russia's corruption problem

Q&A with Masha Gessen – January 26, 2011

One of the words often used in association with Russia these days is "corruption." According to Transparency International, an international organization that measures relative corruption around the globe, Russia is in 154th place out of 176 countries. (Canada is sixth).

Many observers believe it's one of the key reasons that attacks like the one on Jan. 24 at the Domodedovo Airport aren't prevented by its security services.

Orangeville Police Services Board backs force as problems mount

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
3.5

Dan Pelton – January 20, 2011

Despite being beset by hearings, investigations and reports of low morale and divisiveness in the force’s ranks, the Orangeville Police Service (OPS) continues to have the support of its Police Services Board.

“I have every confidence in (Police Chief) Joe Tomei and the men and women of the Orangeville police,” said Mayor Rob Adams, speaking on behalf of the board, on which he sits. “I feel they are doing a fine job.”

Police were "ordered" to stop Montebello protest

Topics: 
Policing, Government ethics, Agents provocateurs
Rating: 
3

Court ruling boosts union leader's case

Canada NewsWire – January 18, 2011

OTTAWA—"Yesterday's decision by a Quebec court judge is more proof that police are being used by politicians to carry out orders to stop democratic protests," says Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.

Coles is the union leader who made headlines after unmasking Sûreté du Québec "provocateurs" at the Montebello SPP summit of American, Mexican and Canadian leaders in August 2007.

Actions of Orangeville police force put under a microscope

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
4

Richard Vivian – Jan 10, 2011

This past year was a turbulent one for the Orangeville Police Services (OPS), as the department was criticized for its actions, or perceived inactions, by several members of the public, media and within the force itself.

OPS also found itself the subject of at least one lawsuit, regarding the 2009 intimate femicide of Heidi Ferguson, and a probe by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).

Society owes a debt of gratitude to whistleblowers like Sgt. Rutt

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
3

January 5, 2011

Dear editor,

Thank you for printing the story about Sgt. Curtis Rutt, who bravely came forward with observations about the Orangeville Police Service that warrant a full investigation by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.

Sgt. Rutt appears to be a whistleblower in the classic sense of that description. We are all indebted to people like him that risk their reputation and personal safety to expose uncomfortable truths about systems that are out of control.

Orangeville sergeant requests police chief’s suspension

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
2.5

Richard Vivian – December 22, 2010

Request filed for OCPC inquiry into alleged systemic problems at Orangeville Police Service.

Not only are some residents expressing dissatisfaction with the Orangeville Police Service, The Banner has learned questions are being raised within the local force about its operation and management.

“This letter is to advise the Orangeville Police Services Board that I am formally requesting that a Section 25(1) of The Police Services Act review be conducted into the conduct and performance of the Chief of Orangeville Police, Joseph Tomei, and the administration of the municipal police force, Orangeville Police Service,” states a Dec. 1 letter signed by Sgt. Curtis Rutt, which was attached to a 99-page document outlining why he thought the review is warranted.

A free nation does not fear the police

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
4

As a former prosecutor and defence lawyer I was dubious of police brutality claims. Not any more.

By James Morton – November 26, 2010 

Stacy Bonds, a young black makeup artist with no criminal history was arrested by Ottawa police, apparently for asking why police had stopped her for questioning. A video of her treatment in police custody is now available on the Citizen's web-site.

The facts of Bonds' treatment bear repeating. She was walking on Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa. She was neither drunk nor behaving inappropriately. The police stopped her and asked her name; she provided it.

Attorney General should resign over assault case: Prof

Topics: 
Policing
Rating: 
0

Justin Sadler – November 25, 2010

OTTAWA - An Ottawa criminologist is calling for Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley's resignation after the province said it supports a decision to prosecute a woman who was brutally mistreated after police illegally arrested her in 2008.

"If this is the best we can get from an attorney general in the province of Ontario, then Ontarians are getting less than what we should be getting for justice," said Darryl Davies, a Carleton University criminology professor.  "(Bentley) should resign over this," Davies said.

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