A DEA agent was told by one of his RCMP counterparts that by September all regional drug agents could be working on Olympics, with no investigations ongoing until March 2010.
A friend's grandfather had stopped in at the trading post, leaving his dogs and sled outside with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Still, he thinks the focus on "these few bad apples" excessively erodes public confidence in those Mounties who do their job properly.The RCMP is trying to recruit more women, although with the attention being paid to the sexual harassment claims that will be an uphill battle.
"This investigation is an example of foreign governments having an interest in Canadian-based controlled technology and it highlights the RCMP's commitment to keeping Canadian's safe from the potential misuse of that technology," said RCMP Superintendent Jamie Jagoe.
RCMP officials said they received an anonymous tip the day before the attack and acted immediately.
A third suspect, a 17-year-old boy from Cole Harbour who police initially considered a "person of interest", has been released from custody after it was determined there was not "enough information or evidence" to charge him in this case, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) commanding officer Brian Brennan.
Speaking to the CBC, the mayor of Halifax, Mike Savage, said Halifax police, Geneva police, the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency and the US Department of Homeland Security were all involved in the operation.
In the meantime it may want to update its website, where the section on women in the RCMP first praises their historical contribution "serving as wives".
WHEN 14 senior officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's national police force, recently took the rare step of complaining to politicians about their civilian boss, William Elliott, it was clear that either he or they would have to go.
Mr Major recommended an American-style national security tsar be used to mediate disputes between the national RCMP police force and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country's spy agency.
James Bartleman, head of the foreign ministry's security and intelligence bureau at the time of the bombing and now lieutenant-governor of Ontario, stunned the hearing when he said he had passed on to the RCMP a raw intelligence report saying Air India would be the target of a Sikh attack on its next weekly flight from Canada.
