More preferential treatment for Vancouver RCMP officer charged with drunk driving - yes, that's a criminal offence!
Remember this post? Well, even today RCMP officers continue to receive preferential treatment.
Here's another example:
Vancouver Mountie faces second impaired driving charge in two monthsVANCOUVER, B.C. — A Mountie in Vancouver is facing his second impaired driving charge in two months.
Vancouver police say they pulled the off-duty officer over Saturday morning and breath samples showed he was over the legal limit for blood alcohol.
The 55-year-old officer, whose name has not been released, already had a court date from a previous impaired driving charge and was prohibited from driving for 90 days.
He's now been charged with driving while prohibited, impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.
Name not released, huh? In case of drunk driving it pays off to be with the RCMP. And they're good at it too:
[The un-named RCMP officer] is the latest in a number of Metro Vancouver police officers who have faced impaired driving charges in the last two years, including a Mountie charged in a Delta, B.C., crash that killed a 21-year-old motorcyclist in October 2008. [...]
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