To the Editor:
I was relaxing at home last week, watching the evening newscast on CBC Winnipeg. There was an I-Team article regarding an incident in the community of Nelson House. According to the I-Team report, an RCMP officer took a jailed intoxicated woman home to pursue a personal relationship or should I say a “one-night stand.”
The report said that the officer’s discipline was a reprimand and seven days off without pay. What a joke! It is a disgrace that an individual who wears the uniform of Canada’s finest would conduct himself in such a way.
Our government representatives MP Niki Ashton and MLA Steve Ashton must take this incident very seriously and demand that such disgraceful behavior is dealt with. I agree with Niki Ashton’s request for a full third party investigation.
I have the highest respect for Canada’s finest, but when I hear or read about incidents such as this it makes me sick. The officer and his supervisor should be dealt with under the full extent of the law. They should be stripped of the uniform and suspended for one year. At the end of the suspension they should have to re-apply for duty and retrain to be a member of Canada’s finest, the RCMP.
They are there to serve and protect, but in this case they failed the community of Nelson House. They should be dealt with under the full extent of the law, not given a slap on the hand by an internal investigation.
What they did was a disgrace to the community of Nelson House and should not be swept under the rug.
Addie Colbourne
Thompson
