In Retrospect....
More revelations, as though additional were needed, to convince of the abysmally unacceptable lack of co-ordination between over-lapping police and security groupss in British Columbia.
Municipal police and the federal police force of the RCMP simply do not seem capable of working together for a common purpose. This has been seen on other occasions; when vital public safety and security has been involved, and it is blatantly clear that lives would have been saved had this not been an inescapable fact, revealed time and again.
The Vancouver Missing Women Commission of Inquiry led by Commissioner Wally Oppal, is hearing additional testimony from Vancouver police Deputy Chief Doug LePard, revealing the extent to which three forces, Vancouver, Coquitlam and the RCMP worked at cross purposes to one another.
Each was in possession of intelligence that they obviously had no intention of sharing with their counterparts who were working on the same troubling case. The will to solve that case, the recognition of the fact that a serial murderer was operating with near impunity seemed to be entirely missing.
The assumption being that the women who worked the dark hours at the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver just decide from time to time to move on. And their whereabouts, since they were 'ladies-of-the-night' was of scant interest to society, let alone to the police. Their occupation, after all, represented tawdry societal failure.
So the RCMP undertook to interview Robert Pickton in 2000, and made no effort to share what they had gleaned with the Vancouver police, though Pickton represented the likeliest suspect in the missing women case. "It was obviously of great interest to the (Vancouver Police Department) and it was inexplicably not shared with the VPD", said Chief LePard.
Right in line with the ineptitude of all the police forces involved, in not making any kind of an effort to apprehend a man whom informers had named time and again as without doubt being a murderer; information that was streaming in to police in 1998.
"It was a surprise to investigators that the information wasn't shared", added the deputy chief. While they were surprised, what did they do to pursue the matter?
In 1999 an RCMP officer made an effort to set up an interview with Willie Pickton. Unable to reach him by telephone, she spoke instead to his brother who advised her they were very busy on the pig farm, and call back another time, say a month or so on, when they weren't quite as distracted with important matters revolving around looking after a pig farm.
This was, of course, the venue where remains were found linking Pickton through DNA analysis with multiple murders.
Consequently, taking heed of the admonition from busy farmers not to bother them just then, the RCMP stepped back and it wasn't until 2000 that the interview took place. Pickton offered to permit the RCMP to undertake a search of his farm.
The RCMP evidently demurred.
Municipal police and the federal police force of the RCMP simply do not seem capable of working together for a common purpose. This has been seen on other occasions; when vital public safety and security has been involved, and it is blatantly clear that lives would have been saved had this not been an inescapable fact, revealed time and again.
The Vancouver Missing Women Commission of Inquiry led by Commissioner Wally Oppal, is hearing additional testimony from Vancouver police Deputy Chief Doug LePard, revealing the extent to which three forces, Vancouver, Coquitlam and the RCMP worked at cross purposes to one another.
Each was in possession of intelligence that they obviously had no intention of sharing with their counterparts who were working on the same troubling case. The will to solve that case, the recognition of the fact that a serial murderer was operating with near impunity seemed to be entirely missing.
The assumption being that the women who worked the dark hours at the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver just decide from time to time to move on. And their whereabouts, since they were 'ladies-of-the-night' was of scant interest to society, let alone to the police. Their occupation, after all, represented tawdry societal failure.
So the RCMP undertook to interview Robert Pickton in 2000, and made no effort to share what they had gleaned with the Vancouver police, though Pickton represented the likeliest suspect in the missing women case. "It was obviously of great interest to the (Vancouver Police Department) and it was inexplicably not shared with the VPD", said Chief LePard.
Right in line with the ineptitude of all the police forces involved, in not making any kind of an effort to apprehend a man whom informers had named time and again as without doubt being a murderer; information that was streaming in to police in 1998.
"It was a surprise to investigators that the information wasn't shared", added the deputy chief. While they were surprised, what did they do to pursue the matter?
In 1999 an RCMP officer made an effort to set up an interview with Willie Pickton. Unable to reach him by telephone, she spoke instead to his brother who advised her they were very busy on the pig farm, and call back another time, say a month or so on, when they weren't quite as distracted with important matters revolving around looking after a pig farm.
This was, of course, the venue where remains were found linking Pickton through DNA analysis with multiple murders.
Consequently, taking heed of the admonition from busy farmers not to bother them just then, the RCMP stepped back and it wasn't until 2000 that the interview took place. Pickton offered to permit the RCMP to undertake a search of his farm.
The RCMP evidently demurred.
Labels: Canada, Crime, Human Relations, Security, Sexism
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