This sends the worste possible signal of RCMP accountability. They are above the law and that needs to stop IMO.

Shocking...yawn.

At least Don M is happy. He's probably having steak and lobster tonight, content in the fact that it takes more than worthless common street trash to scratch the big red machine.

Anyone still wonder why the RCMP SHOULD NOT look after their in house cases.....
What a joke this sends to the rest of the country and the world.
Guess the long arm of the RCMP is to long to reach inside their own house.
Look out ladies of the street....This just sends a message that your open house now...to any cop..
Lost a lot of respect...on this and the way the kid was shot in the head over a beer at an event.
Your right Chadermando They do appear to be above any law that we have to obey....
What a sick system we are building....and I don't hear anything from our Gordo questioning anything. Oh ya....forgot....he got off too.....

There is still a civil action possible if someone wants to take up the case.

It just makes me sick to my stomach that the young women involved have gone so far through our justice system only to have their experiences overlooked in favour of an RCMP Act "technicality". I still don't understand if criminal or civil actionss are possible now that the internal stick-handling is done. I feel so much for J.P. Harris' family, but if he has done what is alledged, he has abused his authority to the most offensive degree, and needs to be held accoutable to help restore our faith in the Force.

To err is human, to forgive is divine. Let this be a lesson to everybody. Until next time.

I have seen some of these cops drive right by me. They ARE above the law. After he passed me I still kept going the speed limit. The MAN does have power,(and a gun) dude!

One more thing. As in comedy, and as now in the R.C.M.P.....timing is everything. Nuff said.

This was an internal tribunal. It was an Administrative hearing, no a civil court matter. There may still be time to take it trough a civil action. If time has run out, there may be an argument to be had to open it due to the outcome of the Tribunal.

It will take money, or a lawyer willing to do it pro-bono if he/she thinks it will be a case which could be won and will win the firm some notoriety in the ability to handle such a case sucessfully.

Dog Creek...Your faith in the RCMP will be restored...The First time someone tries to beat you up, Tries to break in to your house,Or opens a Crack house on your steet.... Remember this officer has not been Charged, Never found Guilty... we have some Hooker who for their own reasons want a Undercover Drug Officer Off the Force, I wonder what the Drug Dealers gave these hookers to make up those stories about this Officer. Like I said this is the most ANTI POLICE Site in Canada....O by the way I had fish for supper, not Steak and Lobster.

I thought something smelled fishy....

Don, you conveniently forget that a Provincial Court judge was jailed for the same thing. Sort of lends a little bit of credibility to their story in that regard.

I wonder how much Dave Ramsey told them about the situation when he pleaded out ? (note also that Dave Ramsey was considered a "social worker" by most officers and was not liked for that reason, he wasn't hard enough)

The officer's own employer proceeded with a disciplinary hearing against him based on the strength of the evidence at hand, so are you saying the RCMP is working with hookers/drug dealers in a scam to get him off the force ? Wouldn't that make the force even dirtier ?

I don't think we even need our faith restored, you've got enough for all of us. If you ever got a glimpse of the inside you would know better, but you're just looking in through tinted windows, and you can't see very well. I've looked outside at you, and we've got a much clearer view from where we are standing.

Again, this is not anti-police, this is criticism of the way they are currently operating. There are days when a guy would be proud to wear that uniform, and these are not those days. We can, however, get back to those days if we try hard enough. I appreciate your love of the shirt Don, but remember that some of us have earned the right to be critical, and have the ability to back it up.

I think you're a good person Don, and your intentions are good, but you can't know how much you don't know...and maybe in some ways that's a good thing.

There needs to be some big changes to end big problems. Really.

At the risk of making an uninformed judgment, I think the problem lies fairly squarely on the lack of interest that the general public has in being members of the RCMP. Recruitment problems (much like those in the US Army today) force the hand of the institution in to taking on members whom are not always of top calibre. Let's face it, working for the RCMP isn't very desirable to very many people. Working for the police in a northern community such as ours is even less desirable, to the point that the force has to assign members to work there.

The RCMP members that I have had the most problem with or have witnessed behaving the most poorly often are young guys with chips on their shoulders. I conversely end up feeling much more disdain for an officer when I can see he has a "small man's complex" and he obviously dislikes my home town in which he is currently forced to work in.

Don, often my faith does get a bit of a boost when it comes to dealing with the local detachment as it pertains to me. Everytime I have had to deal with an investigator (for say theft) or long term staff (like Mr. Gary Clark-Marlow) I have been happy with the results and the service.

But almost everytime I have to deal with traffic enforcement or the 25yr old officer from Toronto on his first assignment in Hickville BC, I am dismayed by the juvenile, bullyish, protective nature of the force.

It is in these cases, where the "boys-club" and their "how dare you suggest we can do wrong" attitude needs the oversight. As protectors of the public trust, the RCMP should only be able to maintain their near-zero accountability while they hold a VAST majority of the confidence of the same public they are supposed to work for.

I would suggest strongly that this level of confidence is nowhere close to where it needs to be.