Maybe the R.C.M.P. should contract out their jail to someone else, independant of the cops. Sorta like lowest bidder kinda folk. Obviously, keeping people alive in custody is not the Mounties strong suit. How many more?

There will be more-rest assured.
The police have appeared to take on the attitude they are untouchable.
The public will eventually have them taken to task for their misdeeds.
If they do not clean up their act they will get no respect, and then you will really see people getting beat up while in custody, as talking back and insulting an officer will give them cause to use force.
You can almost bet on it.

Give me a break...think about it. The people that are being taken into jail on a regular basis are not usually in the best physical or emotional shape. Many of them are drug addicts of some type. This means that health issues could potentially arise from time to time.

Wait until the autopsy is conducted before passing judgement on this particular occurance.

The person was taken in at around 5 am. By the description, I would say he was in some sort of delirium, however caused. In other words, he was likely not in the best of health shape, although outward displays may have been consistent with excessive alcohol.

So, we then have the situation changed to putting the individual in a cell, without anyone who has recognized medical training, such as a paramedic, nurse, or heaven forbid, a doctor looking at the victim. That did not happen till 3pm. I would assume there would have been contact at breakfast time and lunch time, and one or two times in between to provide something to drink and look to see whether he was coming out of it.

This guy does not seem to have killed anyone, assaulted anyone, resisted arrest. He was pulling the clothes off himself and rolling around on the ground based on the description. Even if he were fully nude, that would not be an offense in Canada other than if he were making sexual passes.

Yes, he was disturbing the peace, an all encompassing part of the criminal code which allows a person such as that to be taken in and removed from the public.

When the police do this, they take on the responsibility of looking after the person in a reasonable manner. That means getting some expert help.

These cells have all been redesigned to suicide proof them as best as possible. That means, once more, that they should have had functioning video cameras in the cells which had virtually a 100% overview of the activities in the cells. Those cameras should have been monitored on an ongoing basis by a centrally located officer.

Anyway, I find it very frustrating that should I ever find myself in such a situation, that medical assistance is not one of the first things to be found to determine why my actions were as they were. There are medical reasons one may find themselves doing such activities. They do not need to be alcohol or street drug induced. There are natural physical causes for such actions, as there are those caused by prescription drugs.

Here, enjoy ....
http://www.worstpills.org/results.cfm?druginduced_id=75

look at the first drug on the list. An anti depressant. More and more people are using this stuff. Not saying that this is what caused the actions of the person, he may simply have been drunk. Then again, he may have both prescription pills in him, and have had a few too many alcoholic beverages.

When the police take in an individual, they ought to find such health information from someone who is licensed to do so. Otherwise they are putting themselves into a very poor postion with respect to liability.

Whether alcohol, street drugs, prescribed medication, or some natural onset of this person's activities which caused the peace of a neighbourhood in Ft. St. John to be disturbed at 5am in the morning when diesel trucks in many driveways were starting to get people into the oil fields, or the farms, or even some forestry operations possibly, it was the RCMP's responsibility to supervise this stranger, who they did not have any medical information from, from the sounds of it. From the news release it sound like they did not do their due diligence.

What is the Standard Operating Procedure when taking someone in? That is a simple document which should be in place and should be available to the public as well.

SOrry, here is the link to a description of Amoxapine.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682202.html