Police Chief Tom Lewis should be collecting unemployment, or sitting in jail on charges of reckless endangerment. No matter what happened, he allowed a real gun to be used in "citizen police academy" exercises.
Good ol' justice. With a capital "J" even.Don't pick on individual cops
Pick on the organization
And the enablers of disturbed cops
Go to the top
But I provide this direction
With hesitation as I think you will be very disappointed if you believe your beliefs to be true,that Justice prevails
This is the most lawyer like comment you have uttered in two yearsGood ol' justice. With a capital "J" even.
A word without a definition.
If you think "justice" has a working definition, do tell us what it is.This is the most lawyer like comment you have uttered in two years
Now I am totally convinced you are a lawyer,I am so convinced and impressed!
If you think "justice" has a working definition, do tell us what it is.
Measured how, exactly?
One of my co workers was turning left, with his signal light on, (into the old post office on the west side - the one that's closed now) when a SJPF car passed him on the left and hit him. The cop claimed to have had his lights/siren on, so he and his buddies were blaming my coworker. Until we got a signed witness from inside the post office who confirmed there were no lights/sirens on at the time.
As to your off-duty mountie, sounds like it might have been Paula - she was a nice, nice person.
I have an interesting little story, back in the late 90s I bought an ATV out of newspaper. And of course I was concerned whether or not it was stolen ... I called the police with the name make and serial number but they did not seem to be concerned at all and brushed off my inquiries....
So I bought the ATV and wrote down the drivers license number of a man I bought it from. Well about two weeks later a squad car showed up outside my house with the male and female RCMP officers .......... well for about 45 minutes they ran serial numbers on the ATV and it did not come up stolen...... but for some reason the female officer was extremely irate and claimed she could take the ATV as stolen property even though there was no evidence to prove it.......
Well about two weeks later , I got a phone call telling me that I was in possession of stolen property and that I had to immediately turn it over to the RCMP........... well they showed up with a flatbed truck and I asked the female officer if she could show me some official RCMP documentation to the fact that I was in possession of stolen property.... simply because I know they ran the numbers and nothing came up........... this RCMP officer became extremely agitated and aggressive and told me she did not have to give me nothing, show me nothing or proved nothing to me...........
Well I believe there was something extremely wrong.... and went to talk to a lawyer why I had not received file number. And some sort of RCMP paperwork.
About two months went by, and I started to write letters to an RCMP staff Sgt.......... I wrote three or four letters and never received a reply. And figured that my complaints were falling on deaf ears.
About a month later there was a knocking at my door, there stood the female RCMP officer in plain clothes with a flatbed truck with my Quad on the back....... it had four brand-new rims on it, a new back rack, someone had torn apart the left front axle......... and the winch had been destroyed........................ well you can, imagine my surprise............ I took the machine back then I talked to a lawyer and wrote another letter to the staff Sgt. About the winch not working. The RCMP officer told me to take it down to the bike shop and have it repaired at the expense of the female RCMP.................. the lawyer told me that I could have not accepted quad back and file some sort of lawsuit against the RCMP and could have received a brand-new quad....... but he also warned me that the RCMP are a vindictive bunch and that I would probably have been subtly harassed for years because of it.
I often wonder, what really happened there. And what happened to that overly aggressive perhaps criminal RCMP officer.
Cop accused of incompetence eager to return to work after appeal court decision
Cop accused of incompetence eager to return to work after appeal court decision
Megan Gillis
First posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 03:31 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 04:39 PM EDT
An officer the Ottawa police asked to quit because of poor performance is now eager to get back to work after winning his appeal and $15,000 in legal costs at Ontario’s top court.
The court decision made in favour of Const. Emmanuel Diafwila is the latest in a long and complicated legal saga between Diafwila and the police force.
Diafwila was hired as a fourth-class constable in 2006 and, in total, received about 1,100 hours of training over several years — more than double the amount given to new recruits.
In 2009, he was informed that efforts would be made to improve his performance but after coaching by other officers and a stint in a desk job, Ottawa police “gave up” and he was placed on leave.
In March 2013, Diafwila, then 32, was ordered to resign or be fired for unsatisfactory work performance under the Police Services Act. The hearing officer in Diafwila’s case concluded that despite efforts at training and mentoring, the officer was “simply not suited to many if not most aspects of policing.”
Examples at the hearing included asking witnesses leading questions, placing a woman resisting arrest on her face in the back seat of a cruiser, being unable to work handcuffs and running stop signs.
Diafwila appealed to the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, which ordered in March 2014 that he be reinstated as a second-class constable.
The commission found that the original hearing officer erred in fact and law. It found the force didn’t comply with its own policies before trying to fire Diafwila — for example, not completing performance reviews, giving him a chance to respond to reports or resolving a complaint of workplace harassment.
The OCPC decision was appealed by Ottawa police to the Divisional Court.
In March 2015, the Divisional Court set aside the commission’s “perverse” decision, finding it was over-enforcing a regulation that set out what needed to be done by the police force before an officer could be fired for on-the-job performance.
And then on Tuesday, Diafwila’s legal battle with the force took another twist.
A Court of Appeal for Ontario panel allowed Diafwila’s appeal of the Divisional Court ruling.
Allowing the appeal has the effect of reinstating Diafwila, wrote Justice Bradley Miller. He noted the constable succeeded on “administrative law grounds” in the appeal heard in January.
A spokeswoman for Ottawa police said the force will not make any comment until it has a chance to review the ruling.
“I do not pronounce on the ultimate issue – his fitness to serve as a police officer,” Miller wrote. “That remains an ongoing matter within the purview of the (Ottawa Police Service), for the OPS to address according to the policies that it created but did not, in this instance, follow.”
However, the appeal court decision noted that “there were concerns about his technical policing skills and his ability to make sound, independent decisions in the patrol setting.”
Diafwila’s lawyer, Paul Champ, said the decision is a win not only for his client but for all police officers in Ontario.
“For my client, it means that he is fully reinstated and able to carry out his duties as a police officer,” Champ said. “If in the future performance of his duties, the Ottawa police has any concerns about his performance, they will need to raise them with him in accordance with their policies.
“The decision is also however important for all police officers across Ontario for the same reason.”
Diafwila, the first officer asked to quit over performance issues, “absolutely” wants to resume a policing career.
“He’s very committed to community service – that’s always really been his passion,” Champ said, adding that his client and those officers who testified on his behalf feel he’s a good officer.
“He’s anxious to get back to work and show what he can do.”
The police service’s final avenue of appeal would be to the Supreme Court of Canada
Const. Emmanuel Diafwila. CHLOÉ FEDIO / OTTAWA CITIZEN
Cop accused of incompetence eager to return to work after appeal court decision
Killed a deaf guy in North Carolina. The usual: traffic stop, guy gets out of his car using sign language, snivelling coward sees anything he doesn't expect as a threat, shoots the guy.
Oh, and the guy was white, so everybody cue up the "all lives matter" BS instead of the "BLM are terrorist criminals" BS, mmm-kay?
Keeping us safe. Tough, dangerous job. Support the police. Blue lives matter. Other lives don't.
What version would you like in how I perceive Justice to serve Canadians?If you think "justice" has a working definition, do tell us what it is.