Police and Public Trust, a project of the CBC News Atlantic investigative unit, scrutinizes the largely off-limits police complaint and discipline systems across the region. Journalists are using access to information laws and, in some cases, court challenges to obtain discipline records and data.
Three years ago, an RCMP constable from the Moncton area was accused of belittling and laughing at a woman while taking her complaint of sexual assault.
That same year, another complaint came in from the Oromocto area, from someone who felt a sexual abuse investigation involving her daughter was inadequate. She also said they weren’t kept up to date on its status.
The RCMP found neither complaint to be substantiated, but they are examples of more than 30 allegations from members of the public about how RCMP officers in New Brunswick investigated complaints of sexual violence.
CBC Investigates obtained eight years’ worth of complaints about how …