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A complainant who caused an internal investigation into the conduct of three Coquitlam RCMP officers says he witnessed racist and sexist behavior and was intimidated and harassed during his time as a general service officer.
Constant Sam Sodhi testified at a code of conduct claiming the officers Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah promoted a toxic workplace, participated in chats of racist and sexist groups and intimidated him.
Sodhi was assigned to the CMP CMP in 2019, joining the Group of D Watch officers. He said that his motivation to become a police officer was to support young people at risk in urban areas, which was documented in a letter of intention he had written before joining the detachment.
On his second day with the RCMP Coquitlam, he claimed that Dick, his coach at that time, asked: “What kind of brown boy are you?
Sodhi said he later referred to his letter of intention: “He mentioned it and said he read the entire letter to the clock on the [general duty] pit. They laughed at me. They called me bitch. They said he was a brown boy. He told me that. “
Sodhi claimed that Dick told him that he had to be “one of the boys” and “make fun of yourself” to fit.
Supposed racist comments and behavior
Sodhi said that during his time traveling with Dick, he witnessed that he made racist comments aimed at different ethnic groups. He alleges that the officer would make jokes about wanting black taser.
At some point between February and March 2021, Sodhi said the detachment received a call of domestic violence from a woman who said she had a bloody lip.
He said that Dick joked the officers that the “stupid dog should have used an oral guard.” Sodhi claimed that Mesbah made a similar comment.
Bullying and group chats
According to a probe of search order, 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 chat that began in WhatsApp but then moved To point out. 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.
During his testimony, Sodhi said that Solven made derogatory comments in group chats and police chat records related to his intelligence.
He said he was also belittled by Solven on Radio Communications during a police response to a vehicle accident on the Meridian coast road in the fall of 2019.
Sodhi by Radiodeded Solven, asking him to stop a car that passed through the shock zone.
“On the air, he says: ‘Don’t tell me what to do,” Sodhi recalled. “Everyone can listen. This man made my life a hell.”
Sodhi said he made attempts to reduce the growing tension between him and Solven. He said that by 2021, he felt with ostracism in the detachment and would obtain little support both in the field and for his administrative duties, which was affecting his negative performance.
According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021, and a chief superintendent ordered an investigation into five mounties.
The probe initially focused on text communications between the RCMP laptops themselves, known as mobile data terminals. The researchers reviewed 600,000 messages published in the internal records of RCMP mobile data chat. affirming to find evidence of use of the “frequently offensive” language by the three officers who face the termination of “homophobic and racist insults.”
The examples cited by RCMP computers include statements such as: “Why do brown boys have unusually acute voices.” As an idiot woman would say, … ‘toxic “and” simply racially jumped out of a car on a car. “
The probe also reviewed WhatsApp messages and signal groups,
Sodhi is expected to be interrogated by lawyers who represent the defendants on Tuesday.
