Cops Watched Porn, Skipped Work Instead of Investigating Missing Woman: Galliford

BY SUZANNE FOURNIER

          Former RCMP officer Catherine Galliford will be testifying on Tuesday November 29^th and knows her evidence will be explosive; she is not testifying for the RCMP but on behalf of the victims. She was the face and professional voice of the Missing Woman Task Force for the RCMP and while working for the RCMP she encountered mind boggling evidence. In 1999 the RCMP had enough evidence for a search warrant of serial killer, Robert Pickton’s Farm. From 1999 to 2002, 14 women were brutally murdered by Pickton, it is this fact that haunts Galliford. She will testify that both RCMP officers and VPD officers were involved in sexual behaviors in the workplace even after they were informed they continued to leave work early to go partying and drinking and watch porn. Galliford now suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome and has been out of work for over 4 years. She said while working for the NVPD she was constantly sexually harassed and bullied. Galliford says the most chilling thing that happened to her was after the details came out about how Pickton killed his victims. They were butchered and their remains were scattered about his farm and an east Vancouver rendering plant, a group of RCMP members were constantly “making jokes about sex toys” and “fist bumping”. The officers allegedly wanted to tell Galliford “their fantasy”. Also “They wanted to see Willie Pickton escape from prison, track me down and strip me naked, string me up on a meat hook and gut me like a pig” said Galliford. She states that there were many officers who were disgusted by this behavior as well, and unfortunately they didn’t last either. According to Lilliane Beaudoin, whose sister, Dianne Rock was held hostage, beaten and raped twice before Pickton murdered her in October 2001, predicts that Galliford “is going to blow this inquiry wide open.” The information Galliford is revealing has never been shared before and it is filling in some of the gaps that would never be filled by the RCMP.

My first thought when I read this article was shock. I never thought that anything like this would happen in real life; it seemed as if it was a television show script. I have always thought of police officers as good responsible people who try to set good examples for the public, but after reading this it makes you think twice. It was understandable that Galliford has been off work for so long, having to deal with rude, sexist people all the time really would bring you down. Also, having so much stress on her, knowing the fact that 14 women’s lives could have been saved just sends shivers down my spine. I feel so sorry for the families of the victims killed by Pickton. Knowing that the police officers responsible of their cases would joke about them and be involved in inappropriate behaviors in the workplace probably makes them sick. I am thankful that there are people like Galliford in our world that will go against the police because many don’t. We need more people to tell the truth and inform the public about what these so called “role models” actually do at work. I hope the inquiry is as shocked as I was when I read the news and that people are punished and things will change in our police force.

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