CTV is reporting that "The Winnipeg Police Service has announced charges against two of its officers following an ongoing investigation by its professional standards unit.
Constable Elston Bostock, a 22-year member of the service, was arrested for a second time on Wednesday."
"He is facing multiple charges, including indignity to human remains, knowingly distributing an intimate image, breaking and entering to commit an indictable offence (extortion), theft under $5,000, six counts of breach of trust, three counts of obstruction of justice, and multiple drug possession charges."
"Constable Vernon Strutinsky, 44, was also arrested and is facing one count of breaking and entering to commit an indictable offence (extortion) and breach of trust."
"Investigators believe Bostock conducted about 84 illicit drug transactions between January 2016 and November 2024, according to Mackid. The drugs trafficked included cocaine, oxycodone and amphetamine, police said."
Wow. Just wow. That guy is seriously dirty. Cops like that should get twice the amount of time a non-cop would.
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ReplyDeleteSo the guilty are cops?? I wonder how they can catch the dirty cops in B.C.?
ReplyDeleteDid I just hear a voice say “Never, it is allowed in B.C.”—“oh yah, haven’t u noticed no one gets busted in B.C.”
I think it's a little different in BC. It's not one or two dirty cops selling drugs. It's the direction coming from the top down telling them what to go after and what not to go after.
DeleteHere in BC it's always low hanging fruit, usually sexual misconduct stuff like that one guy who committed suicide last year, and the female earlier, but the idea that there is nothing more serious is hard to believe. Consequences only when they can't be avoided is more like it, like the Polish immigrant getting tasered to death, or the RCMP guy who killed a motorcyclist driving drunk a while after that, who turned out to be one of the members on the airport detail that day. Some things are too big to make go away once they are discovered.
ReplyDeleteBoth will probably keep getting paid, as for punishment, a slap on the wrist. There was a case in ottawa where the higher up cop and his "crew" of corrupt cops were supporting and protecting a drug dealer where the drug dealer let them drive exotic cars from his dealership, took them out to dinners and most likely kept their pockets full of cash. I don't want to mention any names but the higher up cop ended up killing himself at his desk at work. Why you ask he killed himself? Because there was an investigation going and he knew he was going to go down. They had a huge funeral for him LOL the poor bastard cops who didn't know shit about what was going on attended the funeral to show their respects. The police department said that he was depressed bla bla bla. May you rest in hell Kal you dirty mofo. You got what was coming to you.
ReplyDeleteSuspended with pay? No jail time I suspect. Held to a higher standard? 🙄
ReplyDeleteOfficer Fisher got busted after I don't know how many years, I personally had interactions with him in my youth and he was a grade A asshole and considered a super cop back then. He was known to take bribes and steal shit back in the 90's didn't get busted until 2019 after the evidence was undeniable.
ReplyDeleteSo much for dirty cops being the exception to the rule.
ReplyDeleteI'd say in the rank and file they are the exception.
DeleteIMO, Most cops are on the straight and narrow and just do their jobs properly. Dirty cops are not the majority by any means. Unfortunately there is never going to be anyway from preventing some cops from becoming dirty. They can do all the pre-screening psych tests that they want, but people never usually reveal what they will be like with power until there comes a time in which they actually have it. The real issue at hand here is whether the good cops, and the justice system as a whole, will truly hold the bad cops accountable.by the same standards as everyone else, and even maybe more severe punishment is warranted for those who have a position of power and abuse it. If they do hold their own accountable, they won’t lose public trust in policing. If they fail to do so, or just give slaps on the wrist and continue doling out pay checks on the tax payers dime to dirty cops, people will just lose trust in policing all together.
DeleteConsider the Surrey Six case. None of the RCMP having sex with witnesses and claiming unearned overtime and bogus expenses were management. I think the highest ranking was a Sergeant?
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