A mountie has been on paid leave for 16 years. He’s not alone.
It began with allegations of sexual misconduct, but it went beyond that into a bureaucratic tangle that left the alleged victim's parents without justice, the RCMP spending hundreds of thousands to keep a constable on leave and an embarrassing look into an organization that badly needs to fix its policies. What went wrong in the case of Const. Justin Harris? And how systemic are the problems in the RCMP discipline process?
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Show Notes
It began with allegations of sexual misconduct, but it went beyond that into a bureaucratic tangle that left the alleged victim's parents without justice, the RCMP spending hundreds of thousands to keep a constable on leave and an embarrassing look into an organization that badly needs to fix its policies.
What went wrong in the case of Const. Justin Harris? And how systemic are the problems in the RCMP discipline process?
GUEST: Jane Gerster, investigative journalist
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