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Winnipeg police stymied by encryption on alleged child sex predator’s electronic devices

Newly unsealed court documents give a glimpse into the challenges the Winnipeg Police Service faced trying to uncover the contents of an accused child sex-abuser’s electronic devices.Police allege Marshall Ruskin, 63, a former civilian webmaster for the Department of National Defence in Winnipeg, paid to watch the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines through…

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Police training in domestic violence scrapped for years before veteran’s murder-suicide: inquiry

The provincial fatality inquiry examining why an Afghanistan veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Monday that Nova Scotia police officers had limited intimate partner violence training in the seven years before the murder-suicides.The second-latest witness at the Lionel Desmond fatality inquiry testified about policing standards and training in Nova Scotia. (Dave Irish/CBC)The…

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Hamilton police officer on 18-month probation for lunging at woman in incident caught on video

A Hamilton police officer has been placed on probation for 18 months after pleading guilty to assault for lunging at a woman in February 2021.A Hamilton Police Service officer points at a camera before speaking to a resident. Minutes later, video shows the officer lunging at the resident. (Submitted by Paul Manning)A Hamilton police officer has been placed on…

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