The NDP’s Public Safety critic is questioning how women can trust the RCMP or individual officers after one posed for pictures on a sexual torture website.
Kathy Corrigan says the latest black eye for the mounties could prevent victims of abuse from going to police.
“When you have people particularily women trusting the RCMP in a lot of really delicate and difficult situations like domestic violence and so on that it is very difficult for those women and others to trust the RCMP to come in and provide the support that they need.”
Corrigan wouldn’t say if Coquitlam Corporal Jim Brown should be fired or not.
“I think it is tough to have those people there whether I would say in this particular case, I don’t know the history of the officer and so on, whether you say this person should be fired I don’t know about that individual but I do think that this is not the type of person that should be representative of the RCMP.”
Corrigan says the mounties need to be more open about bad apples.
“After the fact we are finding out well it is only because of an FOI or only because it is posted on a website that we find out about it and that is not appropriate because if we are going to have trust not only in the individual officers but also in the organization we have to trust that when there is an allegation and when there is misconduct that the superiors are going to deal with it appropriately, sweeping it under the rug is just not on.”
Brown is on desk duty and under investigation for the pictures showing him wearing nothing but police boots, while using a knife to threaten a naked woman hog tied and in a cage.
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