RCMP FAILED TO ACT ON STAFF COMPLAINTS

The intelligence analysts at RCMP headquarters had scored a string of successes by the time Cameron Ortis became their boss in 2016, but then things went downhill.

After Ortis took over the RCMP’s National Intelligence Coordination Centre, staff said they faced harassment and inappropriate and demeaning comments, causing morale to plummet.

“It was a terrible, negative environment,” one of the analysts later told a consultant. “People left and people went ODS (off duty sick). It impacted them personally.”

Although they filed harassment complaints and grievances, and said they turned to senior RCMP management, including Commissioner Brenda Lucki, they said no one listened.

The RCMP said it was “making continuous improvements to enhance leadership skills as well as the harassment resolution process.”