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Galliford, 44, is slated to testify at the inquiry in January, but says she won’t be testifying for the RCMP, but rather on behalf of the victims.
In an interview, and in a 115-page statement given to the RCMP, Galliford said top Mounties had “enough evidence for a search warrant” of serial killer Robert Pickton’s farm in 1999. From 1999 to 2002 14 women were brutally murdered by Pickton, a fact that haunts Galliford.
She says she will testify that both RCMP and VPD officers, even after the Missing Women Task Force was formed in 2001, engaged in sexual liaisons and harassment, watched porn and left work early “to go drinking and partying.”
“The saddest part of this is that the women who were killed were the most vulnerable people in our society, other than children,” she said.
“I will not be testifying on behalf of the RCMP at the inquiry,” she said, saying her first concern is for people whose loved ones didn’t have to die.
In addition, the 2006 election campaign was marked by the entrance into campaigning – in fact – by the RCMP on behalf of the Harper Conservatives. Military and police interference in democratic elections proclaims a move towards fascism. In a break with honourable tradition, the RCMP announced – in the midst of election campaigning – that it was undertaking a criminal investigation of Liberal minister of finance, Ralph Goodale. The announcement was totally gratuitous, and, of course, Goodale was cleared completely.
But the RCMP helped – along with the wholesale criminal breach of trust of the Conservative candidates and Party – to shape an illegitimate minority victory for Stephen Harper.
Attorney General Shirley Bond is completely unruffled by the news. Negotiations with the RCMP for a 20 year contract with B.C. will go on as if nothing has happened, she has – in effect – said. Ms. Bond, I suggest, is aware that the RCMP has so much on the Gordon Campbell Liberal Cabinet and its successors that she dare not suggest there will be any hitch in completing the new contract.
I suggest the BC Rail Scandal is governing the conditions under which the cabinet of British Columbia can negotiate with the RCMP. But there is more ….here.
See many more cases here.
My advice to you is to rip up the RCMP Contract, you don’t negotiate with criminals. We need a Police Force that is ready to commit to protecting the public, not the criminals. We need to disarm our police force back to essentials, a car, a radio, a sidearm and a wingman. To arm them instead with an education in sensitivity, compassion and with tools for aiding the mentally ill, the addicted, the homeless. We don’t need massively armed paramilitary strike forces to keep us safe. We don’t need spies in our midst to root out the evil socialists and environmentalists. We don’t need a war on drugs. We need a war on Poverty. We need publicly funded education. Health care. Housing, not Prisons.
I don’t expect you will heed my advice, sadly, I suspect you are in far too deep to extricate yourself from any criminal involvement and that your life might well be endangered if you did, no doubt more important to you than the public interest be served. A sad state of affairs, indeed.
