[LINK] "Cops watched porn, skipped work instead of investigating missing women: Officer"

[rfmcdonald]

Suzanne Fournier's Postmedia report, carried by the Edmonton Journal, tells a damning story about the horrifically botched investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton. Apparently, rather than actually investigate someone, (male) officers spent their time watching porn, ignoring evidence, and joking about Pickton killing their fellow (female) officer.

RCMP Cpl. Catherine Galliford, the former calm, professional voice and face of the Missing Women Task Force, said Tuesday she knows her evidence will be "explosive" when she appears at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

Galliford, 44, is slated to testify at the inquiry in January, but says she won't be testifying for the RCMP, but rather on behalf of the victims.

In an interview, and in a 115-page statement given to the RCMP, Galliford said top Mounties had "enough evidence for a search warrant" of serial killer Robert Pickton's farm in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, 14 women were brutally murdered by Pickton, a fact that haunts Galliford.

She says she will testify that both RCMP and Vancouver Police Department officers, even after the Missing Women Task Force was formed in 2001, engaged in sexual liaisons and harassment, watched porn and left work early "to go drinking and partying."

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"I will not be testifying on behalf of the RCMP at the inquiry," she said, saying her first concern is for people whose loved ones didn't have to die.

"Tell the families," said Galliford, her voice breaking, in an interview with the Vancouver Province on Tuesday. "I've got their back."