OTTAWA—The federal civilian watchdog for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it investigates just a fraction of public complaints about officer conduct, leaving the RCMP to probe the vast majority of complaints itself. “We’ve got the RCMP investigating RCMP and it’s totally unacceptable,” said Darryl Davies, a criminology professor at Carleton University, who is sharply critical of the federal oversight regime. A federal agency called the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) is charged with overseeing public concerns about RCMP conduct. We follow the rules of the RCMP Act,” McDerby said when asked about concerns with the oversight model. “We carry out what parliamentarians have told us they want.”The RCMP did not respond Wednesday to questions about the complaints process.

Source: thestar June 17, 2020 21:22 UTC