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OPINION: A flawed investigative body fails to curb RCMP sexual misconduct

By: Jason Walker, Associate Professor & Program Director, Adler University
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FILE – RCMP. (Phil McLachlan/Capital News file)

By: Jason Walker, Associate Professor & Program Director, Adler University

Workplace violence in the form of bullying, harassment and sexual abuse has reached a crisis point in countries around the world. In Canada, the fact that this pernicious problem thrives within institutions designed to uphold law and order makes it all the more startling.

Recent stinging coverage of the RCMP’s inability to manage internal complaints of abuse suggests its so-called “arm’s length” body — the Independent Centre for Harassment Resolution (ICHR), created to investigate bullying, harassment and sexual abuse — is ineffective.

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