A scathing indictment of the RCMP!
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The RCMP and William Elliott Rewarding Incompetence Nov 24, 2011 - To make Elliott more attractive to Interpol, Canada agreed to pay the salary of the organization's new envoy to the United Nations. Interpol may find that, even at zero dollars, the former Commissioner is no bargain! Oops!... I Did It Again Nov 16, 2011 - Deputy Commissioner Bob Paulson is the new head of the RCMP. Will it be "Oops!... I Did It Again" for the Prime Minister in appointing Elliott's understudy as Commissioner. Time will tell, but I don't expect many positive changes at the RCMP until the appointment process itself is reformed. Two Men You Should Know Better The Consequence of There Being no Consequences A female RCMP officer’s damning indictment of her employer
"In my lifetime, the RCMP has gone from one of the most respected organizations in Canada - recognized as a proud symbol of this country around the world … to a disgraced, abusive bunch of hard-nosed sexist bullies, known for police brutality, and for getting away with it." G&Mail reader Ms. Dziekanski asked Bill Elliott, when he offered a public apology (almost three years in the making) on behalf of the RCMP, why there were no consequences for the police officers who caused her son's death (and then lied about why and how it happened). The lack of consequences for police officers behaving badly is probably the main reason for the type of in-your-face unapologetic police brutality such as that witnessed at Vancouver International Airport, the G20 and rampant sexual harassment, of which Ms. Galliford's indictment is only the latest of a long list of complaints of "serial sexual harassment by police superiors". On February 4, 2011 Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the departure of RCMP Commissioner William Elliott. Elliot was expected to leave his post in July. Will the man who has proven himself such a bad judge of character in naming the most incompetent Commissioner in RCMP history again be left with making the final decision concerning his replacement? On August 18, 2011 it was announced that William Elliott will be Interpol’s new envoy at the United Nations starting in November. "As the international police service's special representative to the UN, [he will] will tackle files such as terrorism, organized crime and global police co-operation." How Interpol could accept as UN representative a man whose tempestuous interrupted tenure as head of Canada's national police force should have disqualified him from such an important position is a mystery. Why Elliott Must Go! In 2009 William “angry Bill” Elliott, the first civilian Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attended a three day anger management course in the United States at a cost of more than forty thousand dollars of taxpayers’ money. The money might have been better spent on a course in professional ethics. His three year tenure as Commissioner has been rife with conflict with senior officers who this year asked Prime Minister Harper to replace him. These experience law enforcement officers wanted him removed, not only because they considered Elliott incompetent and disruptive in a job that should have gone to a seasoned law enforcement professional, but also mentally unstable, his inability to control his temper being the main characteristic of the state of the Commissioner’s mind. The Prime Minister refused, and in so doing gave the green light to a man who has never worn the uniform to do pretty much as he pleases with the career police officers who had blown the whistle on their ill-tempered and abusive Commissioner. The boss of a government agency (the RCMP being no exception) saddled with rebellious subordinates has a number of options short of firing them outright (which I am sure angry Bill would do if he could). One option is creating an additional layer of management to deal with the rebellious rabble. This, it would appear, is an option angry Bill exercised in splitting the national police force into a Western and an Eastern detachment, and placing their headquarters on each coast, far away from him and the center of power in Ottawa. This will still leave some malcontents at headquarters in the nation’s capital. To deal with these remaining experienced officers who might again try to get Prime Minister Harper to see the insanity of it all, angry Bill used his complete control over the RCMP's budget to use some of the moneys allocated for operations to offer incentives to his remaining critics to leave town. This would explain angry Bill’s euphemism-like explanation “to send regional commanders back to communities they hail from.” Since many of these commanders are near retirement age this could also be interpreted, not only as angry Bill putting some distance between him and his remaining detractors, but also as an incentive for many of these near-retirement-age “commanders” to keep quiet since taxpayers will be paying to move them and their families to the “communities they hail from”, communities one must assume where they plan to retire. This, in and of itself is a serious breach of professional ethics, but also has the very unfortunate side effect of tarnishing the reputation of RCMP officers who, seeing no light at the end of the tunnel as long as angry Bill is in charge, tried to make the best of a bad situation and accepted what is in effect a bribe to leave quietly. Shuffling experienced police officers around the country in an effort to keep a job and the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed is not only a serious breach of professional ethics but an expensive and dangerous breach is this case. This decision, which can only be considered self-serving, will not only lead to a lengthy disruption in police operations across the country, but also be a considerable waste of money; money needed for doing more importing things such as protecting civilians from terrorists attacks. Angry Bill in a CBC interview on Friday, October 22 where he talked about his priorities which includes, as already argued, moving as many of his critics out of town, admitted that there was not enough money to do everything he wanted which is why he had to reduce the number of air marshals (RCMP officers who board international flights to and from Canada as civilians to foil terrorist attacks) by 25 percent or 50 officers. Why the Prime Minister keeps this man in charge after all that has happened and what may happen next is a mystery. Should angry Bill’s self-serving, bull-in-a-china-shop approach to managing the RCMP result in dire consequences for civilians, angry Bill will not be the only one who will have some explaining to do. ------------- The biggest hit to the RCMP’s budget has to be the incentives that angry Bill has given to British Columbia, the jewel in the RCMP’s crown, to keep the RCMP as its provincial police force. The province has been toying with idea of creating its own provincial police force after of all the bad press generated by the RCMP in that province, most of it under the mismanagement of angry Bill, the tasering to death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski being the most infamous and Ian Bush*. The logical choice for RCMP Headquarters West, if the RCMP was to be split up, was Regina which is almost at the geographical center of the Western region and the home of the RCMP Academy since 1885. The RCMP there, if they do not have such capabilities already, could quickly and relatively inexpensively set up the necessary control and command infrastructure for the Western half of angry Bill’s empire. ------------- A reader asked if I was not worried about the RCMP not being there if and when I needed their protection because of what I write on another controversial subject. I am not overly worried for I believe that most of the force’s officers are like the one mentioned in the introduction at the top of this page, and of course, William Elliott is not a police officer. ------------ * April 22, 2010 - CTV reported that many regretted that the mother of Ian Bush had dropped her lawsuit against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. An RCMP officer shot her twenty-one-year-old son in the back of the head after taking him into custody for drinking a beer in a public place. She pursued the suit for more than four years with no end in sight to her long slow Dickensonian descent into ruination (read Bleak House) that is a journey through the Canadian justice system. If you did not help with her legal cost, then you can’t complain. She could only go so far in fighting the exhaustive powers of time and money of the RCMP to thwart this courageous single mother’s quest for justice for her dead son. Bernard P. October 23, 2010 Great leadership and that other kind General Colin Powell, when asked what he did on the eve of the invasion of Kuwait said he had one final briefing, then went back to his office and ordered Chinese food. He had done his job, and it was now up to Schwarzkopf to do his. Any intervention on his part at this stage would have been unwelcomed, unwarranted and a dangerous distraction from the task at hand. Compare that type of leadership to that demonstrated by Elliott during the G8/G20. “Despite being advised not to attend the summit command centres on June 25, 2010, the commissioner chose to attend, and in doing so, completely disrupted operations,” Mike McDonnell, then an RCMP assistant commissioner, wrote in a letter to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. Globe and Mail, Oct 19, 2010 From bad to worse to hopeless RCMP Commissioner William Elliott moves to assert control Globe and Mail Oct 11, 1010 If a new set of pants does the trick then... RCMP's big changes begin – with a set of new pants Globe and Mail, Sept 24, 2010 If Elliott manages to buy the loyalty of the rank and file by providing them with washable pants as he prepares to liquidate his critics at the RCMP, then they deserve him as a boss. You have to wonder if Elliott actually goes out of his way to embarrass the Mounties or is he that clueless about the optics of mixing a change of trouser materials with what is being billed as an impending sea change at the organization he ostensibly leads. Who do you turn to? The country's storied national police force is slowly processing internal affairs cases, considered serious and disgraceful, against more than 110 RCMP officers, some of whom have waited a long time to defend themselves at formal disciplinary hearings. The longest wait, right now, is six years. Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, Sept 18, 2010 Lame Excuses RCMP watchdog blames complaint backlog on Mountie foot-dragging Globe and Mail, Sept 15, 2010 Among the backlog of complaints The RCMP arrest of Robert Knipstrom of Chilliwack, B.C., who died in hospital in November 2007 days after being Tasered, pepper sprayed and hit with a baton... The Mounties say they've simply been too busy with the Olympics and international leaders' summits to keep up. Both events occurred more than two years after the still unanswered complaint into the death of Robert Knipstrom. The man the Prime Minister wants to keep as Commissioner of the RCMP has again demonstrated his shortcomings as a manager and leader. Lame excuses for not getting the job done only makes the RCMP look incompetent, and in the case of the crown jewel in the RCMP's crown, British Columbia, give the province one more reason not to renew the Mounties' contract in 2012. Elliott's poor stewardship of the RCMP at this critical time may bring an end to a 60 year old tradition. Instead of a Sam Steele the Mounties got a plodding, ill-tempered bureaucrat when it desperately needed the former. Ingratiating Oneself and Settling Scores William Elliott says it’s ‘fairly self-evident’ that senior Mounties are trying to have him removed. Globe and Mail, August 20, 2010 Evident is not the word, even for Elliott. The out-of-his-dept temperamental civilian commissioner is not about to go quietly, and if keeping his job means sucking up to the Prime Minister by sending the man in charge of the despised soon-to-be-history long-gun registry on language training, so be it. Elliott's unwillingness to resign, even for the good of the organization, further diminishes him in the eyes of those who care about the RCMP and the damage he continues to inflict on that iconic police force by fighting to keep a job for which he was never qualified. His apparent willingness* to do the Prime Minister's dirty work is also worrisome. Would an RCMP with the likes of William Elliott as commissioner, have declined the request of the diplomats that I be declared a national risk and all that entailed**. I don't think so. Bernard P. ----------------- * If Elliott did not remove Superintendent Marty Cheliak at the behest of the Prime Minister’s Office then he has shown the same lack of judgement and common sense that has been a hallmark of his tenure as Commissioner. To send Superintendent Cheliak on language training, days before he was set to speak about the long-gun registry at a police conference in Edmonton displays extremely bad judgement and a definite lack of people skills, and that is being kind. And then again, it may not have anything to do with the PMO or Elliott’s incompetence or mental state and may simply be Elliott's way of settling scores and lying about it. You do not send people at Cheliak’s level to language school full-time; it is both a waste of money and a waste of expertise. You allow them time off during working hours or after work to upgrade their language skills usually with the help of a private tutor. ** Excerpt from Shooting the Messenger The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), shortly after my confinement, was asked to investigate if I could be declared a security risk. If the RCMP found me a threat to national security losing my job would be the least of my worries. I could be charged with a criminal offence under the Official Secrets Act. If found guilty during normally secret court proceedings permitted under the Act, I faced serious jail time. I kept my top secret security clearance. I was not a security risk. That should have been obvious. The fact that Foreign Affairs tried to have me declared a security risk for getting in touch with the Commissioner of Official Languages is disturbing, to say the least. ----------------- A sad reminder of what some people do with long guns. A vote of no-confidence An Ipsos Reid public opinion poll conducted between July 30 and August 4 shows that public confidence in RCMP management has dropped 6 points to 51% since Elliott took over. This is really not good, and is just one more reason why Elliott must go! A Probe as a Prop Ex-CSIS chief to probe Mountie mutiny Globe and Mail, July 30, 2010 Does the Prime Minister actually enjoy making bad situations worst? Most senior staff at RCMP headquarters consider Elliott a boorish incompetent under whose inept leadership their reputation has gone from bad, to worse to abysmal. They have had three years to assess their man and they have found him lacking both as a leader and as a human being and no amount of “probing” will change their minds. "Senior RCMP officers have levelled complaints against their boss (William Elliott) to the Harper government ... [charging him with being] ... verbally abusive, closed-minded, arrogant and insulting,” CBC, July 26, 2010. To make matters worse the man who will be doing all that probing is the same man who, as head of CSIS, defended before the Air India Inquiry former director Ted Finn's erasing "of 156 tapes of evidence" (thank you Prime Minister for reminding us of that disgraceful episode in our history); wiretaps which the RCMP said would have made for a successful prosecution of some of the Air India bombers and accomplices. I am sure they are just going to love him over there. Reid Morden's selection to investigate the Mounties can only be understood as Harper’s way of propping up his ill-considered choice for RCMP Commissioner, and perhaps, rubbing the RCMP brass’ face in it a little for questioning his appointment of an inexperience, quick-tempered civilian as head of Canada's iconic police force. July 30, 2010 An angry, unstable man The Globe & Mail reported last week that the $ 44,000 spent to send William Elliott to the United States for “executive coaching” (as if that wasn't embarrassing enough) was actually for an anger management course. We should ask for our money back. I would also hazard that if it was a real policeman at the helm of the RCMP who could not control his or her emotions, and who flew off the handle as often as Elliott is reported to do, he or she would not be tolerated; so why does the Prime Minister put up, and force the leadership of the RCMP to put up with an emotionally unstable civilian Commissioner? June 29, 2010 Blaming the Force “Mounties failed with Gregson*”, William Elliott, Head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as quoted in The Ottawa Citizen. * Kevin Gregson was the "inactive RCMP officer with a long record of erratic behaviour with the national police force" who slit the throat of Ottawa Const. Eric Czapnik while he sat in his squad car. We all make mistakes. Prime Minister Harper made a mistake in appointing William Elliott Commissioner of the RCMP. Elliott was supposed to make the RCMP respectable again after the Maher Arar Affair. He has failed miserably while shifting the blame for his failure, as he does here, onto the organization he was chosen to lead to a brighter future. All 11 members of the senior executive committee of the RCMP will be able to retire with a full pension by 2012. Elliot has said that he wants to stay on as Commissioner so he can chose their replacement. Considering Elliott’s failure as a manager and leader (could anyone have as badly handled the unfortunate tasering death of Robert Dziekanski), their replacements can not be burdened with his stamp of approval if they are to be trusted by the rank and file. For the good of the organization, Elliott must go, and a new Commissioner appointed as soon as possible. To restore public confidence in the leadership of the RCMP, public hearings before a Parliamentary Committee should be held into the suitability of the next candidate for Commissioner. Elliott’s less than adequate performance as the first civilian Head of the RCMP would also suggest that the next Commissioner be chosen from a pool of competent and respected law enforcement professionals. Elliott has made the same recommendation—the more reason to find his replacement as soon as possible. April 28, 2010 Blaming the victim - Lifestyle Choices as Cause of Death Whoever authorized, as revealed at the Braidwood enquiry into the tasering death of Robert Dziekanski, the sending of investigators to Poland to try to build a case that it was lifestyle choices that led to the Polish immigrant’s public electrocution by police officers at Vancouver's International Airport should be fired! How can you trust a police force who would keep a person who would do such a thing? First the lies about Dziekanski's homicide, then an attempt to blame the poor man for causing his own death! These people know no shame. The civilian head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, William Elliott and the Taser Corporation’s line on taser related deaths has always been that it was the victim’s fault for not being healthy enough to withstand one or more 50 thousand volts discharge of electricity without dying. If it was Elliott who tried to pin the blame on the unfortunate Dziekanski for getting himself killed, he should be immediately replaced by an officer who has taken the Oath and believes in it. June 1, 2009 Making a bad situation worse Justice Braidwood has submitted his final report into the tasering death of Robert Dziekanski. In Why! The Robert Dziekanski Tragedy, he “describes the situation as ‘the story of shameful conduct by a few officers’ and should not reflect on thousands of other Mounties.” But what about the man who made a bad situation worse, beginning with getting in touch with the officers to extend his and the RCMP’s support thereby foolishly painting his entire organization with the brush that Braidwood would use on the four constables whose ill-considered actions led to death of Robert Dziekanski? Yes, I am referring to the Commissioner of the RCMP, William Elliott. It will be easier when he is gone for the RCMP to start rebuilding a reputation that four men who should never have been allowed to wear the uniform (and still do*), and a civilian who should never have been allowed to play policeman have so badly damaged. June 20, 2010 --------------- * In response to a question from Robert Dziekanski’s mother about why there was no consequences for the officers who killed her son, Elliott, the consummate plodding career-bureaucrat said something to the effect that, almost three years after her son’s death, they were still working on regulations and that three of the four officers had been assigned to desk duty. An apples and oranges comparison Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner William Elliott's contempt for Parliamentarians (read Setting A Bad Example) was again evident yesterday when he said no to opposition MPs' demands that regulations be amended to warn police officers about repeatedly tasering civilians in the way that led to Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski's death, and tasering minors and adults in their custody. For the head of Canada's iconic national police force, if there is no policy on how many times Mounties can punch or hit someone with a baton, there should be no policy limiting the number of times an officer can repeatedly hit a citizen with 50 thousand volts of electricity. Elliott's dismissive, confused "apples and oranges comparison" is another reason to question his fitness for the job, considering the life and death implications! The Commissioner's casual, careless approach to life and death issues was also evident in a subsequent interview on CTV where he repeated the Taser Corporation's and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police's canard that the more than twenty Canadians and two recent immigrants to Canada who were summarily electrocuted by police all died from natural causes. The RCMP will never overcome its international and national disgrace for tasering to death Robert Dziekanski with Elliott, who has never worn the uniform, as its leader. April 22, 2009 Wither the RCMP June 18, 2010 - Vic Toews has become Prime Minister Harper’s goto guy when he wants something done, and in a bad way! On June 14, the Honourable Vic Toes, the Minister for Public Safety, the man most responsible for the mushrooming billion dollars summit boondoggle announced what the government intends to do about a police force out of control, and it is worse than nothing. With everything that has happened to the RCMP, the government has decided to make matters worse. The new RCMP Review and Complaints Commission like the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP which it will replaces will be toothless and will have even less access to evidence of RCMP wrongdoing which it will be denied under officialdom’s favourite canard “national security.” The RCMP will continue to be a law unto itself and the likes of William Elliott, whom history may remember as the Commissioner who did the most damage to the reputation of the RCMP will be able to continue doing as they please for as long as they please. Vic Toews, the Public Safety Minister who in a previous incarnation as the President of the Treasury Board decline to use his powers to hold Foreign Affairs to account, has done the same for the RCMP. This is no way to restore confidence in our iconic police force. Question: When is an apology not an apology? Answer: When it’s from the RCMP! One day before he publicly apologized to Robert Dziekanski's mother, Zofia Cisowski, for the Mounties' role in his death, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass e-mailed an RCMP member assuring him the apology did not mean the force was sorry for anything specific its officers did. "Even though the word 'apology' worries some, we are not apologizing for the actions of specific members or saying anything about specific actions," Bass wrote in a March 31 e-mail to Brian Roach, a staff-relations representative. "I am apologizing for the loss of her son." Ottawa, Citizen, June 17, 2010 RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass was probably simply reflecting the view of his boss William Elliott (read Lifestyle Choices as Cause of Death) that it is the decease's fault if he or she was not healthy enough to withstand a 50 thousand volts discharge of electricity without dying, or in the case of Robert Dziekanski five 50 thousand volts discharges, four delivered at point-blank range (two, maybe three after he had been handcuff) while he lay convulsing on the ground. When you look at it from that perspective, Deputy Commissioner Bass’s explanation that the apology did not mean the RCMP did anything wrong, they never do, makes perfect sense; he was simply telling Mrs. Cisowski how sorry he was that her son was not healthy enough to withstand multiple taser blasts from well-meaning RCMP officers. Elliott and The Tangled Web June 19, 2009 - "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" Sir Walter Scott. An email between RCMP brass a month after officers repeatedly used a Taser on Robert Dziekanski suggests the Mounties discussed using the weapon before they even laid eyes on the Polish immigrant. The suggestion, if true, would be at odds with testimony from the four officers, who denied forming specific plans as they separately headed to the international arrivals terminal at Vancouver Airport on Oct. 14, 2007, to deal with a call that a man – Mr. Dziekanski – was acting erratically. ... RCMP commissioner William Elliott described the failure to bring the communication forward earlier as an “oversight” at odds with the force's commitment to openness. Globe and Mail, June 19, 2009. What Motivates the Commissioner July 25, 2009 - The RCMP has agreed to reign in their tasers (in British Columbia only) after saying they were not ready to accept the Braidwood enquiry's recommendation to stop tasering people for no good reason because, to paraphrase a spokesperson, “the national police force has to set an example.” Justice Braidwood also recommended that British Columbia fire the RCMP as the provincial police force if it refused to "comply with the rules, policies, and procedures respecting" tasers. Fear that the province would act on this recommendation, not the immorality of it all, probably prompted Elliott's concession to the province where his officers publically electrocuted the unfortunate Robert Dziekanski. It is so sad to see the formerly upright iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police digging in their heels, trying to avoid being dragged to the moral high ground. Will we ever trust them again? Robert Dziekanski, You Died for Nothing! “The RCMP is out of control.” That was the kindest thing said, with more than a note of regret by one of the force’s biggest fan, at a dinner on Saturday night. It was said during a discussion of the latest tasering death, the twenty sixth since our police forces fell in love with the Taser Corporation’s portable electrocution device. On Wednesday of last week, another citizen died after being pointlessly tasered by a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). An obviously injured, bleeding 40-year-old Grant William Prentice of Brooks Alberta was electrocuted for "acting erratically" and, reminiscent of Robert Dziekanski, for allegedly resisting the efforts of four police officers to subdue him. For every citizen who died after being hit by a mostly unnecessary fifty thousand volt discharge of electricity courtesy of a police officer with a taser, we estimate that at least one hundred citizens have been tortured by the police for no good reason (is there a good reason to torture people?) with the taser set in “push stun” mode*. If a third world country was killing and torturing its citizens with the insouciance shown by our police forces, Canada would raise its voice in righteous indignation. The introduction of the taser has not only blurred the line between what is morally right and what is morally wrong in Canada, but it has also raised questions about “the thin blue line”, civilization’s metaphorical, last fragile line of defence as represented by the police. Whenever a citizen dies from a gratuitous tasering by the police it raises questions as to the permeability of this line. Are the barbarians already here? Making Liars Out of Honest Men July 14, 2009 - As much as we might regret and weep for the innocent and the presumed innocent who died a humiliating painful death, screaming their last breath after being hit by 50 thousand volts of electricity courtesy of a police officer with a taser, we should also shed a tear for the inevitable fatal tasering of the public trust in the police to tell the truth if the availability of the taser, and its use, is not dramatically curtailed. At the enquiry into the tasering death of a mentally ill man in Halifax police custody, like the investigation into the electrocution of Robert Dziekanski by the RCMP, police officers were found to be less than forthcoming with the truth. In too many blogs and comments on the web about these executions, most often with the taser pressed against the victim in the now all-too familiar sadistic push-stun mode, Canadian police officers and liars has become synonymous. This is not good. Does the Taser have it's place in a policeman’s arsenal? Yes, a taser with the push-stun mode* disabled or unavailable (Robert Dziekanski was killed with the taser in push-stun mode) has its place in a policeman’s arsenal. Like the ubiquitous gun, because of the taser’s potential, unpredictable lethality, it should be a weapon of last resort e.g. against an armed suspect who will not surrender peacefully, such as a knife-wielding assailant. A policeman who uses the taser for just about any other purpose — the most common being to torture a suspect already in custody (read Tasering Children) to exact revenge i.e. vigilante justice (what was done to a single mother in The Trouble With Tasers) or to shock a person behaving erratically (Robert Dziekanski) — should be prosecuted. The biggest impediment to implementing such a sensible regulation, and its enforcement, remains William Elliott who makes no distinction between a policeman hitting a suspect with his fist, his baton or with fifty thousand volts of electricity, and a Parliament who is afraid to tell the civilian head of the iconic, trend-setting Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that he is out of his dept, if not out of his mind, when it comes to tasers. ----------------------- * With the taser in push stun mode, the muzzle is pressed against an already immobilized victim before the trigger is pulled, sometimes in rapid succession to deliver quick multiple jolts of electricity as was done to Robert Dziekanski; in “push stun mode" no prongs need to get imbedded in the victim's skin before the electricity is delivered. Tasering Children is another example of the RCMP tasering a teenaged girl in their custody in this manner. Unlike the unfortunate Polish immigrant to Canada, she survived the ordeal.
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Corporal Catherine Galliford, a 20-year veteran of the Mounties, offers this advice about her employer these days: “What I say to people now is that if you have a woman in your life who you care about, do not allow her to join the RCMP.” Globe and Mail, Nov 10, 2011