A lady from the west coast is planning to take authorized motion towards the RCMP after she claims they entered her dwelling with out their information and started questioning her 11-year-old daughter in the midst of the evening.
The incident in query occurred early Sunday morning. Based on the RCMP, they obtained a lacking particular person report associated to a 17-year-old woman simply earlier than 4:30 am
They are saying data from a complainant make them a house, and after a “sustained interval of knocking, doorbell ringing and verbal communication,” they entered the house by an unlocked door, verbally saying their presence. The home-owner was then woke up and confirmed the lacking woman wasn’t there.
That is not how resident Cortney Pike says the state of affairs went down.
She claims the police didn’t knock as a result of their canine would have barked, and so they have been unaware of the officers’ presence. She alleges the officers went into her daughter’s room, questioned her concerning the lacking woman, and didn’t have a warrant.
As for the lacking woman, Pike says she can’t discover any connections that may lead police to her home.
She has contacted a lawyer.
RCMP say they’ve the authority to enter a dwelling with out a warrant underneath sure circumstances involving public security or the security of a person.
That authority is supported by a Supreme Courtroom ruling R v Godoy, [1999] 1 SCE 311