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RCMP watchdog, N.W.T. clash on public complaints handling
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 CBC News An independent police watchdog says RCMP in Inuvik, N.W.T., should not have tried to informally resolve a serious public complaint that police used a Taser on a girl. However, the territory's justice minister says that's how complaints about the Mounties should be handled. The clash of opinion comes after the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP identified a number of problems with police handling of the 2007 incident, in which an officer jolted the teenage girl with a Taser at a youth correctional facility in Inuvik. Full Story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/12/14/nwt-taser-informal.html |
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