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RCMP head says claims of political interference after N.S. mass shooting ‘not based on fact’

The head of the RCMP has repeated her stance that she didn’t deal with political pressure to make firearms details about the Nova Scotia mass shooting public, saying government officials were simply “asking” and not directing — which is a “big distinction.”

Commissioner Brenda Lucki faced questions from the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting on Tuesday in Halifax, as well as from a lawyer for most of the victims’ families.

She’s a liar like Trudeau.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2022August 24, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP

RCMP head Brenda Lucki tells N.S. inquiry she was unaware for months a report on morale issues among Mounties was completed

The head of the RCMP says she wasn’t aware for several months that a report documenting morale problems among officers in Nova Scotia had been completed.
Commissioner Brenda Lucki took the witness stand on Tuesday at the inquiry that is examining how a gunman driving a replica police car carried out 22 murders over 13 hours on April 18-19, 2020.

Lucki said it was only in June of this year that she saw the “wellness report” that had been prepared for the RCMP about its Nova Scotia division. The report by Ottawa-based consultant group Quintet Consulting Corp. was completed in September 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2022August 23, 2022•0•RCMP, WTF?

GUNTER: Political interference should cost commissioner her job

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has to go.

Her willingness to potentially jeopardize the criminal investigation into the worst mass killing in Canadian history, just so she could help the Trudeau government push its gun-control agenda, has so compromised her professionalism that she can no longer be trusted to run our national law enforcement agency impartially.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2022August 20, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, RCMP

And this is what they do to one of their Fans!

RCMP buff in Ontario spent 2 weeks in jail following N.S. massacre

Warren Thwing collects model trains and Avro Arrow paraphernalia, posters and stamps. The keepsakes at his home in Kingston, Ont., span aviation, hockey, Star Trek and car racing. But by far his biggest haul is of RCMP memorabilia.

“I have always been a lover of the Mounties,” he said in an interview with CBC News. “I wanted to join the RCMP years ago, but I was that short on the height requirement — it was five foot eight, and I was a half-inch short.”

Who the hell makes this sort of decision?

by Blazingcatfur•August 18, 2022August 18, 2022•0•Canada, RCMP, WTF?

FADDEN: Canadian policing — it’s time for change

Since its creation, the RCMP has been an icon — sometimes shining, sometimes tarnished. But the objective here is not to review the Force’s past but rather to look to its future role and mandate by asking if the way policing is currently set up in Canada is in the national interest.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2022August 14, 2022•0•RCMP

GUNTER: Liberals miss target with ridiculous online surveillance

Maybe the RCMP’s use of spyware to track cellphones, laptops and tablets has been perfectly legitimate. Maybe they’ve only used specially trained investigators who know how to walk the exceptionally tricky line between lawful investigation and invasion of privacy.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2022August 10, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP

RCMP has been using spyware tools for years and in more cases than previously reported, MPs told

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and senior RCMP officers are defending the national police force’s years-long and previously undisclosed use of spyware—capable of remotely accessing cell phone and computer microphones, cameras and other data—as part of dozens of major investigations.

Over the course of hours of witness testimony at the House of Commons Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee, a series of notable disclosures were made on Monday about the RCMP’s use of “on-device investigation tools” or ODITs.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2022August 9, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", RCMP

RCMP has yet to turn over info on cellphone spyware program to privacy watchdog

More than a month after the RCMP admitted to using invasive cellphone spyware technology, the national police force has yet to turn over information about the program to Parliament’s privacy watchdog.

Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne told the House of Commons’ ethics committee that he found out about the RCMP’s “Covert Access and Intercept Team” and its use of cellphone spyware through media reports in late June.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2022August 8, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", RCMP

Parliamentary committee to begin study of RCMP’s use of cellphone spyware

OTTAWA – A parliamentary committee will begin exploring the RCMP’s use of spyware on Monday, diving deeper into an issue that’s sounded alarms for privacy and civil liberties groups across the country.

The House of Commons ethics and privacy committee called for a summer study after the RCMP revealed its use of tools that covertly obtain data from devices like phones and computers.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2022August 8, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society", RCMP

This is a senior RCMP officer telling the Nova Scotia mass shooting public inquiry that he was told not to disclose a phone call requesting information from Commissioner Brenda Lucki by federal lawyers

This is a senior RCMP officer telling the Nova Scotia mass shooting public inquiry that he was told not to disclose a phone call requesting information from Commissioner Brenda Lucki by federal lawyers. https://t.co/2emvoToT1A

— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) July 29, 2022

by Sarcasticat•July 30, 2022July 30, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, RCMP

Hopin to get Lucki?

Top N.S. Mountie wanted an officer dismissed for sexual misconduct — but Commissioner Lucki disagreed

A Nova Scotia RCMP constable who violated the force’s code of conduct after fondling co-workers will keep his job — even though the top Mountie in the province at the time wanted him dismissed for sexual assault.

The case pits the wishes of the local division against Commissioner Brenda Lucki, who — while promising publicly that sexual assault would not be tolerated under her watch — agreed to let the member keep his job.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2022July 29, 2022•0•Canada, RCMP, WTF?

Senior RCMP officer tells Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry he was told not to disclose call from Commissioner Brenda Lucki

A senior Mountie told a public inquiry on Thursday that federal lawyers advised him not to disclose a call he received from the RCMP Commissioner that he says appeared to be motivated by a desire to use the Nova Scotia mass shooting to boost support for Liberal gun-control measures.

Chief Superintendent Chris Leather, testifying for a second day, said he believes political inference was behind RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s insistence that police release details on the guns used in the April, 2020, mass shooting that killed 22 people.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2022July 29, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP

RCMP HQ refused top officer’s request for independent review of Nova Scotia shooting: inquiry

One of the top RCMP officers involved in responding to Nova Scotia’s mass-shooting rampage in 2020 says he pushed repeatedly to have an independent review of how the incident was handled — only for national headquarters to reject his request.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2022July 25, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP

Blair, Lucki tell Commons committee they didn’t meddle in N.S. shooting probe

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told a House of Commons committee Monday that they did not interfere in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

“Let me begin, and let me be clear. I did not interfere in the investigation around this tragedy,” Lucki told members of the House of Commons public safety and national security committee.

“Specifically, I was not directed to publicly release information about weapons used by the perpetrator to help advance pending gun control legislation.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2022July 25, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP, WTF?

RCMP sent out stock images of escaped killer’s accomplices

Pictures of suspected accomplices in Rabih Alkhalil escape were stock images, RCMP say

Coquitlam RCMP are still actively searching for Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil, who escaped from the North Fraser Pre-trial Centre on Thursday — but the photos they shared of his alleged accomplices were stock images, they said.

“It is believed that the suspects who helped Alkhalil escape bear a close resemblance to the photos they left behind, but those images are not them,” said Const. Deanna Law with Coquitlam RCMP in a statement Saturday afternoon.

by Blazingcatfur•July 24, 2022July 24, 2022•0•RCMP, WTF?