Call In The RCMP

As though the Royal Canadian Mounted Police don't have enough embarrassing incidents made public to last them a lifetime.  The inglorious public unveiling of high-ranking RCMP members pulling rank to harass and sexually molest their underlings, the charges of theft for another.  These public displays of RCMP members abusing their roles as model members of Canada's security establishment will not be readily forgotten.

The newish Commissioner of the RCMP vows, just as his predecessor did, that things must change, and he will be the man to effect those long-overdue changes.  We are reminded that the vast majority of members of the federal police force are mindful of their duties and exemplify in their professionalism the best of the best in policing and public protection.

And then comes yet another story focusing, however unfairly, on that ailing force.  Yet another member of the RCMP revealed as having behaved in a rather less than acceptable manner, quite lacking in nobility.  And, as such, besmirching the already sorry reputation of a national police force that at one time held the admiration of the country for its professional expertise.

An RCMP restorative justice co-ordinator and crisis negotiator, no less, "lost it".  St. Michel D. Luciak of Saskatchewan assaulted his 14-year-old-daughter for disobeying his edict.  He instructed the girl that she was forbidden from going on Facebook.  And then he discovered that she had been on the social networking site, revealing personal data in a posting.

Not only giving information about herself personally, but posting as well her opinion in quite crude terms of her father's girlfriend.  Sgt. Luciak admitted to having experienced a "flash of anger", according to his defence lawyer, in Saskatoon provincial court. 

One supposes his professional expertise as a mediator and anger management consultant abandoned him when it moved from the zone of neutral arbiter to personally emotionally involved.  Much good did his professional status do his daughter.