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[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

Winnipeg police officer charged with drug trafficking offences, accused of sharing photograph of deceased woman

 

 

https://www.ctvnews....-investigation/

 

 

Constable Elston Bostock, a 22-year member of the service, was arrested for a second time on Wednesday. He is facing multiple charges, including indignity to human remains, knowingly distributing an intimate image, breaking and entering to commit an indictable offence (extortion), theft under $5,000, six counts of breach of trust, three counts of obstruction of justice, and multiple drug possession charges.

 

Constable Vernon Strutinsky, 44, was also arrested and is facing one count of breaking and entering to commit an indictable offence (extortion) and breach of trust.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 August 2025 - 07:06 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Number of Mounties on long-term sick leave poses 'significant operational challenges': report

Union says advisory board ignores management's role in getting members back to work





The Management Advisory Board (MAB), an oversight body that advises the RCMP commissioner, is warning that the existing model of unlimited sick leave at full pay is unsustainable and in need of a rethink in order to get more officers back on patrol — recommendations that are already garnering vehement disagreement from the RCMP union.

[…]

As of Dec. 31, 2024, about seven per cent of the regular members were on long-term, off-duty leave at an approximate cost of $58 million, the task force estimated in its report. It also raised concerns about the number of Mounties on extended leave for more than a year.

As it stands, the task force — which said it talked to regular members, supervisors and senior leadership — found the model "offers no incentive to return to work."




https://www.cbc.ca/n...leave-1.7612678

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 August 2025 - 08:04 AM.

[LJ]

I have a neighbour who is on "disability" from the RCMP. In his early 40's, a model of physical fitness. Spends his days curbing cars.

[Barrister]

Hopefully someone is actually on top of disability claims out there. Hard to disprove if it is "traumatic stress" or some such.

[Victoria Watcher]

Retiring Victoria police chief ready to relax — and give up on NHL coaching dream

Retiring Victoria Police Chief Del Manak will say goodbye to a 35-year career in policing on Thursday.

 

https://www.timescol...-dream-11130084

 

 

 

 

Police school-liasion officers will be back at school when classes start next week

In May 2023, the former school board ended the program at 25 district schools in Saanich.

 

https://www.timescol...t-week-11130089

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 August 2025 - 05:58 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

As long-time Victoria Police (VicPD) chief retires, the department will hold a change of command ceremony between Del Manak and incoming chief Fiona Wilson.

 

 

YouTUBE at 1pm: https://www.youtube....2XijidMi8fukiC9

[Victoria Watcher]

As the first-ever female police chief to be sworn in in the Victoria Police Department's 167 years, Fiona Wilson did not take the moment for granted.

"That milestone matters, because representation matters," Wilson said in her eloquent and articulate speech, calling the occasion "long overdue".

Not only does it matter to the young girls who can see policing as a path open to them and to communities who expect institutions to be inclusive, she added. "It matters to all of our members who want to see leadership reflect the diversity and strength of those we serve.

"I am not here because I am a woman. I am here despite being a woman, and that is both a celebration and a challenge, and I hold both truths as I take on this position."


https://www.vicnews....7-years-8217776




lol there is actually a strong possibility she is there because she is a woman, not despite it. Let’s see the applicant list.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 August 2025 - 04:57 PM.

[LJ]

She is a tiny little thing as well. I don't see her wrestling some perp to the ground.

[Victoria Watcher]

The car had been in a parking lot for a nearby apartment when it crashed through a wood fence and a chain-link fence and fell several metres from the top of a retaining wall.

 

On Friday, the gap in the fence was taped off and blocked with a single orange cone.

 

B.C. Emergency Health Services spokesperson Bowen Osoko said paramedics provided medical aid to one person, who was taken to hospital in stable condition.

 

 

https://www.timescol...ng-lot-11146588

 

 

 

Hey, that's the former VicPD guy.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 August 2025 - 08:51 AM.

[Mike K.]

Oh yeah!

[Victoria Watcher]

Graffiti targeting a Victoria police officer has appeared in Rock Bay.

The department didn't detail the graffiti's message, but told the public in a Sept. 2 X post that "any concerns regarding officer conduct should be addressed through formal channels."

"We take all allegations of misconduct seriously and will investigate appropriately," the post said.

The graffiti also included the department's non-emergency phone number. The department said that misuse of the line "can divert critical resources and hinder our ability to serve the community."

Victoria Police is asking the public to submit complaints about officer conduct online via vicpd.ca/contact-us/compliments-complaints.


https://www.vicnews....ock-bay-8229845

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 September 2025 - 12:23 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Graffiti targeting a Victoria police officer has appeared in Rock Bay.

The department didn't detail the graffiti's message, but told the public in a Sept. 2 X post that "any concerns regarding officer conduct should be addressed through formal channels."

"We take all allegations of misconduct seriously and will investigate appropriately," the post said.

The graffiti also included the department's non-emergency phone number. The department said that misuse of the line "can divert critical resources and hinder our ability to serve the community."

Victoria Police is asking the public to submit complaints about officer conduct online via vicpd.ca/contact-us/compliments-complaints.


https://www.vicnews....ock-bay-8229845

[Victoria Watcher]

That’s quite a banner.

[Victoria Watcher]

The graffiti also included the department's non-emergency phone number. The department said that misuse of the line "can divert critical resources and hinder our ability to serve the community."





Too many officer rape complaints might tie up the non-emergency lines. Bring them in slowly, in the interest of public safety.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 September 2025 - 12:34 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Sometimes where there is smoke, there is fire, I presume.  Constable Eddy might want to review his own conduct.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 September 2025 - 12:59 PM.

[Matt R.]

This was posted on the VV FB page and promptly deleted.

[LJ]

Oh my, that could ruin somebody's life. If there is any validity to it there are better channels to use.

[Victoria Watcher]

Saanich fire and police departments to host Saturday open house

The public can meet firefighters and police officers, tour their vehicles and see fire-department demonstrations.

 

https://www.timescol...-house-11199200

[lanforod]

Me and my kids would enjoy that. Can't make it but maybe next time

[Victoria Watcher]

Aftershock: Mom reeling from son's death stumbles across podcast that makes everything worse

After searching online for the officer who killed her son, Shirley Brown listened in shock to a podcast where he described his version of what happened.

 

 

 

 

The year after her son was fatally shot by police, Shirley Brown finally learned the name of the officer involved.

 

It was included in a response from the RCMP to a complaint she and her ­husband had made.

 

For months, Brown, who lives in ­Qualicum Beach, resisted searching the name online.

 

But one night shortly before Christmas in 2023, after a glass of wine, she typed the officer’s name into a search bar.

 

Up popped a link to an appearance the officer had made on a podcast produced by the now-former chief of the Delta Police Department.

 

Brown clicked on the link and listened as the officer described his career in policing, from Campbell River to the Yukon and back to Vancouver Island.

 

He discussed his mental health, a post-traumatic-stress-disorder diagnosis, and the irritability he ­sometimes brought home from his job. (The Times Colonist is not naming the officer because he has been cleared by the province’s police watchdog and has not previously been publicly identified.)

 

Ten minutes into the episode, the officer began to tell the story of a call he responded to in Nanaimo on July 23, 2022 — the night Brown’s 52-year-old son died in a police shooting.

 

She listened to him describe being the first officer at a scene where witnesses were reporting that a man was assaulting a woman in a car stopped in the middle of the road.

 

“I was like, oh my god, he’s talking about our son,” Brown thought as she listened. “I was totally sick to my stomach.”

 

Sean Brown was shot five times in the chest ­during an altercation with an RCMP officer in Nanaimo, according to the province’s police watchdog, which found the officer shot his weapon in self-defence after Sean pulled out a replica firearm.

 

Sean had been picked up by a friend that afternoon because he was depressed and had been drinking ­heavily, according to the Independent Investigations Office of B.C.’s 2023 report into his death.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-worse-11208829

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 September 2025 - 05:10 AM.