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VANCOUVER – Three members of the RCMP from the Metro Vancouver detachment could be fired over alleged “horrific,” “racist” and “horrible” behavior detailed by a fellow officer, including text conversations that boasted about “Tasering black people without weapons,” court documents say.
A timetable from the RCMP shows that Constables Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah are due to appear next February for code of conduct hearings on allegations including discrimination, harassment and disparaging the police.
None of the claims have been proven.
In a court filing to obtain a search warrant, an officer at the RCMP’s Professional Standards Unit in Coquitlam, BC, says another member of the detachment trained by Dick complained of being harassed by the accused officers.
Among the key complaints, according to the filing, officers allegedly engaged in comments on a mobile chat group that were abusive, racist, homophobic and misogynistic which amounted to a “climate of harassment” created by the three officers.
“Members of the (chat) group never talk about their own lives,” the filing said “They use the group to say ‘negative things about work or horrible things about people they work with. them.’
“He (the complainant) described the behavior in the chat group as ‘appalling.’ He believed it was racist and horrible, so he used to ‘skim’ it rather than read it all,” the documents state.
The filing also said the complainant tried to leave the chat group but was told it was “being used for operational purposes and needed to be a part of it,” and was accused of “not being a team member” if he did not rejoin. .
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The documents say that among the list of comments allegedly made on the conversation are instances where an officer “goes off around… brown people” making the Lower Mainland “unsafe,” using the N word and the racist stereotype of eating chicken when describing black people. , dismissing a woman reporting a sexual assault based on her ethnicity and calling her “dumb,” and making fun of a female RCMP worker’s weight by “thinking the shape of her vagina was visible through her clothes.”
The complaint also outlined a number of actions by the three officers outside of the group chat, including denigrating members of the indigenous community as having fetal alcohol syndrome and saying they “don’t go to the reserve … because we’re not going to help those people,” the court document says.
In another case described by the complainant, one of the members, who was “usually dismissive” of shoplifting files, went “out of his way to attend” a case and tried to “provoke the person who suspect to fight” when he learned the suspect was black.
The court document states that the complainant said that the officer “later lamented that he had not been able to ‘rile up’ the suspect sufficiently to justify Tasting him.”
The document also describes other alleged cases where members justified domestic violence by saying “women deserve it,” swearing in front of a four-year-old while attending a tenancy dispute, and boasting about bringing police files to end by doing “whatever” when requesting follow-up on a case with no filing.
The Coquitlam RCMP standards officer also said in the document that a review of other chat logs from the accused officers between January 2019 and May 2021 “identified a variety of comments that were ‘chauvinist in nature, with a strong air of superiority and included flippant or insulting about clients, supervisors, co-workers, policy and the RCMP as a whole.”
“In the messages, Constables Dick, Solven and Mesbah are often abusive,” the court filing said. “Constable Dick and Mesbah use racist and homophobic slurs, and all three often ridicule their colleagues.”
The BC RCMP referred The Canadian Press’ request for comment to National RCMP communications, who have not responded to the allegations or the conduct review.
A legal document released on September 12 says the RCMP intends to “seek to terminate the employment of the members at the hearing, and all three members have been suspended since June 2021 when the allegations came to light.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on September 20, 2024.
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