The members of a Disciplinary Court of RCMP commissioned to listen to accusations of sexism and racism against a trio of cochylam Mounties say they do not need to take aside to have referred to men as the ‘three friends’.
A lawyer from the agents of the agents Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah had argued that when referring to their clients such as the ‘three friends’ in a handful of emails and a file name, the Board of Behavior of three members had Contaminated procedures with an appearance of “real or perceived bias.”
But the president of the Board, Sara Novell, told the contested officers on Friday that, although the use of the term may have been “inappropriate and unfortunate,” it was barely a reason for challenging.
Novell said that the term of ‘three friends’ appeared in a file folder and about 10 administrative emails that refer to the folder, something that said it could have seemed “unprofessional”, but that would not take a regular person to conclude that the Board was biased. The three men.
‘A strong air of superiority’
The decision means a hearing in the code of conduct against Dick, Mesbah and Solven will now move forward, with a testimony scheduled on Monday morning of the complainant who launched the complaint in 2021.
The RCMP wants the three mountains to be dismissed for their alleged participation in the conversations of private chat groups in which the officers are accused of boasting of “stucking the unarmed blacks”, calling for an investigation of stupid sexual assault “And make fun of the body of a new female employee.
These accusations came to light last fall after the release of a search warrant that details the circumstances that they allegedly led the officer who caused the investigation to complain to Brass RCMP about what he saw as an “atrocious” and “racist activity and horrible “of his colleagues.
The Court documents claim that the investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages published in the internal records of RCMP mobile data chat, finding evidence of “frequently offensive use” use by the three officers who face the termination for “homophobic and racist insults “
“The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were” of a chauvinist nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include frivolous or insulting comments about customers (including objective women), supervisors, colleagues, policies and RCMP as a whole. ” “Said the search warrant.
The audience against men began last Monday, but was derailed by the last minute challenge to the credibility of the Board, which arose after the dissemination of internal documents of the Board that referred to the case as the ‘ Friends’.
A men’s lawyer said that the use of the term gave rise to the concerns that the Board saw men as friends who stayed united to protect themselves despite facing individual accusations, separated from each other.
But Novell rejected those concerns, pointing out the fact that the Board chose to reveal the internal documentation that gave rise to the accusations of ‘three friends’ as proof of a dedication to transparency and lack of bias.
‘Constant negativity’
According to the search warrant, the complainant – const. Sam Sodhi – was sent to Coquitlam in 2019.
Sodhi said there were two chat groups for members of the Coquitlam detachment assigned to Port Coquitlam, one for all the members of the clock and a second private group that began in WhatsApp but then moved to the signal. He said they told him that once he was “worthy” of the private chat group, “we will add it to it.”
The officer said he was admitted in the private chat group in March 2021, but left after a few days due to “constant negativity.” He said he was later accused of “not being a member of the team” and encouraged to return.
The order says that Sodhi said that outside the private chat group, the group members also “belittled indigenous peoples, speaking of how” stupid “or” drunken “and saying that they have” unfortunate bodies “and all have syndrome of Fetal alcohol “
According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021.
Dick, Solven and Mesbah have denied the accusations against them.
