RCMP still not getting their (white collar) person

Another story on the police's unsuitability for this job.
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...IMET [Integrated Market Enforcement Teams] was created with fanfare three years ago to improve Canada's poor record on investigating white-collar crimes, with top officials optimistically pledging that investigations would be wrapped up within a year...

...The team is also responsible for investigating the politically charged allegations of leaked information about federal income-tax changes for income trusts -- a major issue that dogged the Liberals in the last federal election campaign.

But three years after its creation, IMET has not yet laid charges in any of its prominent cases. IMET teams in Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal have laid no charges at all. The Toronto team has announced charges in two minor cases...

...If IMET can't live up to its promise, it should be fixed or replaced. It's a sad fact that criminals appear to have nothing to fear from Canada's big crackdown on securities crime.

Efforts to explain this sorry situation:

Why the Mounties so rarely get their (white collar) man (March 16)

Why the Mounties rarely get their white-collar person (December 03)

Posted by markc at May 22, 2006 03:44 PM