Dunlop hearing this morning

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

29 April 2008

Perry Dunlop is set to appear in Kingston Superior Court today to appeal his six-month civil contempt conviction.

The hearing is scheduled for approximately 9:30 a.m. The Ontario Divisional Court handed Dunlop a six-month jail sentence March 6 for refusing to testify at the Cornwall Public Inquiry in September and October 2007.

Dunlop is currently in custody at the Quinte Detention Centre.

Comments on this Article.

I don't think there CAN be much hope in trying to appeal at this stage.

However, I believe that there will be "new, innovational" techniques implemented, to try and encourage "blacklisted" and ostracized, Police Constable Perry Dunlop, to participate in the Cornwall Public Inquiry.

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #1 By James "SPEAK OUT",

I fail to see why they cannot send Perry home to serve weekends under house arrest....oh wait because they want to kill the messanger....o yeah I forgot that. Lets waste more taxpayers money and have Perry in full time incaration, yeah that makes total sense. Excuse me while I PUKE.

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #2 By JungleLord,

If God is real and has any true power, I pray he causes cancer to all involved in any way with the sexual abused or Perry's legal abuse. I hope you all drop dead faster then flies. May God Curse You All.

In the Name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, I pray on the Blood of Christ that each one of you bastards dies a slow horrible death for all your coverups and evil deeds. Dear Lord do not let these men go unpunished who sell their souls for money and power. May they heap upon themselves the ruin they heaped on others 10 times what they dished out may they be forced to eat themselves if not here then in Hell for all eternity.

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #3 By JungleLord,

Good Luck Perry Dunlop

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #4 By dodger,

Yo JungleLord, be cool man, GOD'S gonna get them all, trust me but don't lower yourself to their level as you're doing well when you're talking about the different things you researched! I know it's hard because I blow it left, right and centre so don't always follow in my footsteps, I sometimes have problems walking and chewing gum at the same time. You're a better man than that JL and as for Perry, he'll be OK in time in spite of the stand he felt he had to take. If you've read the papers lately, you'll see that the media and the public are slowly waking up to the corruption of power Re: the drug cops in T.O., the Crown and AG telling the RCMP to only charge a few as if you charged all of them, the system would crawl to a stop. I think the RCMP were given the number of 6 or 7 to be charged and this was written by a guy by the name of Shannon Kari of the National Post. Google "Shannon Kari, April 25, 2008 and read all about it. I didn't notice the AG telling the cops to ONLY charge 6 bikers or 6 La Cosa Nostra or 6 members of a street gang so just how come these cops get such special treatment by the AG of Ontario. And to add to that, just how and why can a Provincial Attorney General tell and FEDERAL National Police Force RCMP what they are suppossed to do. I mean originally the "Horsemen" were to serve at the pleasure of the Queen and then the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and at the same time serve under the orders of the RCMP Commissioner so just who the hell is this Ontario AG that he can tell the RCMP what to do? And just where is the Federal Government and the RCMP's statement regarding that issue? So much for having cops investigate cops, it never worked in the past, it doesn't work now and it sure as hell won't work in the future if we happen to have one that is!!!!

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RCMP told to drop corruption charges against T.O. officers
Shannon Kari, National Post
Published: Friday, April 25, 2008

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The senior RCMP officer who led a probe into a now disbanded Toronto police drug squad wanted 12 officers charged with corruption related offences, but was told by provincial prosecutors that this number was unmanageable.

As a result, six officers were charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, extortion, theft and assault-related charges in January, 2004.

Detective Sgt. John Schertzer and other members of his former unit were accused of assaulting and stealing from drug suspects, as well as routinely falsifying information related to confidential informants in drug investigations.

All of the charges against the six officers were stayed in February of this year by Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer because their Charter rights were violated as a result of unreasonable delay in bringing the case to trial (the Crown is appealing this ruling).

The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney-General's explanation for charging only six officers has been disclosed for the first time, in a confidential report sent by RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Neily in 2004 to the chief of police in Toronto. The report was obtained by CBC radio news and made public Friday.

"The practice of prosecuting conspiracy cases can be limited by the logistics of too many subjects on an indictment," Asst. Comm. John Neily said that he was told. "The rule of thumb among experienced attorneys appears to be to not prosecute any more than seven on one indictment for conspiracy," he wrote.

Four more drug squad officers were named as "unindicted co-conspirators" and would have been required to testify as prosecution witnesses, but they were not facing criminal charges.

A series of affidavits by Asst. Comm. Neily that were unsealed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 alleged there was "evidence of criminal activity" by 17 officers. In a letter to the Crown in 2003 that was made public in Judge Nordheimer's ruling, the allegations were described as "the largest police corruption scandal known in Canadian history," by Asst. Comm. Neily.

The confidential report he authored in 2004 alleged that Mr. Schertzer (who retired last year) led a "specific group of officers serving under his supervision on a crime spree in the drug culture of Toronto," between 1995 and 1999.

The allegations of corruption against the Schertzer team and other Toronto police drug squads led to federal drug prosecutors dismissing or staying charges in at least 200 cases between 1996 and 2002.

A former drug squad member in northwest Toronto who admitted to using cocaine while on duty is the only officer to be convicted of a criminal offence as a result of the findings of the more than two-year-long task force investigation, which began in 2001.

The then-Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino appointed Asst. Comm. Neily to lead the internal investigation, which was made up of more than two-dozen detectives.

The appointment was made soon after an internal Toronto police "business case" report in June 2001 recommended setting up a task force to avoid a public inquiry into alleged corruption. "That the investigation has an external component, that will provide greater credibility to the results," wrote Inspector Tony Corrie. "The faster the review is done the less chance there is of committing more damage. Taking these steps may avoid a public inquiry," he wrote.

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