Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[Jarnhamar]

One of those things that’s happened up north for a long time- a lot of the villages are dry and demand it be enforced

I can't imagine what police up north have to deal with on a daily basis.

Northern communities would imode without a steady influx of RCMP and other outside resources like doctors, food and fuel.

 

[Booter]

Legal authority is highly overrated. Let's just search whatever mail we want - Nunavut RCMP.

"It’s illegal for Canadian police to search mail in transit, but it had been commonplace in the territory, according to Nunavut RCMP Chief Supt. Kent Pike."

Read more at: Forced to stop searching mail, RCMP lean on other methods of detecting illegal drugs, alcohol shipped to Nunavut - Nunavut News

Forced to stop searching mail, RCMP lean on other methods of detecting illegal drugs, alcohol shipped to Nunavut - Nunavut News

Proposed federal legislation could allow police searches to resume

nunavutnews.com

Yeah they have always no case seizured drugs and alcohol out of the mail. It’s goes in cycles.

The community councils are very vocal that they get to decide what comes into their communities and often the police are more than happy to oblige. Seizing liquor and drugs at the airports and the post office. These also aren’t communities with a post office- they are contracted into the northern stores and the employees call in drugs. And then the community leadership want to know what we are doing when they watch drugs pass through the post office. There are also warrants obtained but those warrants also are tossed in court because the courts do not understand the reality of 350 people in the Arctic.

Even where there are community bylaws there isn’t an authority but it’s always been a convo.

The chief Superintendent is TRYING to get them to get rid of a historical practice that is older than the charter in the territory. And you guys think it’s wrong that he is admitting it.

I wonder what your response would be if he denied the problem existed.

I’ve personally seen this conversation come around three times before. Often brought up by police and not Canada post.

The law assumes a structure that doesn’t exist and the police are left to manage community expectations without the support of the courts. Making a call of losing their trust with the community or taking Roger’s cocaine.

 

[Booter]

Decades ago there was a drug investigator in Iqaluit who had basically made CIs of people who shouldn’t be CIs and rode rip shod over the charter, the law, and even the most basic of standards.

He was eventually resigned from the force. He was an example of an actual literal abuse and not caring about the laws surrounding this.

He also would bring in the drug dog as the mail and passengers all use the same pipeline into the territory and would have them walk the line on “tips”.

Walking case law. I couldn’t stand him. But he had all the seizures and in the time before a lot of this focus results led more than how.

It would be nice if this could lead to them to correcting this as a territory. At least being on the same line across the board in the territory in concert with Justice and the Territorial Gov