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.
Darrell Tidd kept hearing about break-ins in his community.
It was the summer of 2023, just a few months after the municipality of Eastern Charlotte was created in southwestern New Brunswick.
This swath of Charlotte County runs from the west boundary of New River all the way to the ferry to Deer Island and includes St. George and Blacks Harbour — home to about 7,700 people, by Tidd’s estimate.
The municipality’s new government, including Tidd, the Ward 6 councillor, was hearing from residents whose camps were broken into. Tidd felt the RCMP response was inadequate.
“What’s at stake is nobody feels safe in their communities,” he said in an interview with CBC News from St. …