Missing Cash and Cocaine Spark Investigation

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$10,000 and .3 Grams of Cocaine Missing

The local Daily is reporting a Nanaimo RCMP investigation of one of their own after cash and cocaine went missing from their evidence locker.

Superintendent McPhail said it is personally very upsetting as it calls into question the integrity of over 9,000 employees across the province. He is promising to get to the bottom of the matter as quickly as possible.

In the meantime the officer under investigation has been reassigned and will not be responsible for evidence. The article in the Daily said that no drug charges were laid in the case, but does not make clear why the cash would not have been returned to the owner?

It used to be one of those 'wink/wink' jokes that if you wanted to buy good hash, you needed to know a good cop.

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Victoria Chief Improperly Stores Gun

In what is almost humorous if it wasn't serious, the Victoria Police Chief was reprimanded for improperly storing his service revolver. It should have been unloaded, in a locked drawer inside a locked locker. Instead it was found under the seat of his unmarked police car.

The humor behind this story is the fact his mishandling of his own weapon came to light as a result of a search of all police vehicles as they were searching to find missing tear gas, pepper balls and a shotgun which another department had somehow lost.

At the end of the day, police are just people like all of us, but we do rightly expect a little higher standard from them than the rest of us mere mortals.