http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/rcmp-lawsuit-airdrie-surrey-letnes-bullying-1.4433066
https://i.cbc.ca/1.4576899.1521141823!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/ryan-letnes.jpg?imwidth=720
A Mountie is suing the RCMP, alleging that some of his fellow officers committed serious offences, and that he was bullied and abused when he tried to blow the whistle on them, according to legal documents.
Cpl. Ryan Letnes, a 17-year member of the force, is now with the Surrey, B.C., detachment but was posted in Airdrie, Alta., just north of Calgary, from 2008 to 2015.
He claims colleagues at the Airdrie detachment at times withheld evidence and laid charges without justification. He alleges he brought his concerns to management, but they ignored him and "engaged in systemic harassment."
Letnes says among other "targeted" behaviours, he was demoted twice, surveilled at his home and locked out of his detachment after returning from stress leave.
An interesting reminder of how corruption can still exist even what seems like the land of milk and honey. I can't imagine going through what he went through, but, as always, it's important to wait for the investigation to play itself out.
Ardrie is a small town of a few thousand people, maybe 10,000 from what I remember(And oddly enough, I've met 10 people from fucking Airdrie which is just super weird as a BC native for such a small town) and I've heard that instances of this kind of corruption are easy to sweep under the rug for the local PD.
Hey, i'm from Airdrie .
Airdrie actually has gotten to be a pretty big city, we're about 40-50k people now. The RCMP around here are a bunch of jackasses and are full of it a lot of times.
Hopefully this blows up in their faces. Best of luck to the guy
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