Kym Hay still does not understand why the RCMP left her at home with a broken door while her alleged attacker was nearby.
An Okanagan woman is speaking out about her experience with the RCMP as a victim of domestic violence and an alleged inability to file an effective complaint to an independent body about the situation.
But as traumatic as the assault was, Hay said it was how the police responded that night that has impacted her the most, along with a loophole that blocks any independent oversight of the primary responding officer.In an interview with Castanet, Hay says after she was attacked, she ran to a home next door where the police were called.
“I vividly remember [the officer] hiking up his pants, booting the door twice and then shoulder checking it,” Hay said. Hay called a friend, Jesse Matlock, who came to the home that night after the police left. Matlock said on his way in, he saw Overton parked at the end of the driveway. During a following 911 call to the home, Hay says the officer who kicked it in responded, and while there, took pictures of the door. Hay claims during that exchange, the Mountie told her to “do us all a favour and don’t date anytime soon.”
“It got to the point where I would have been dead," she said, explaining other individual officers voiced concern to her about the situation she was in.RESERVE CONSTABLES Reserve officers are hired as federal contractors outside of the RCMP Act, and as a result, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission does not accept complaints involving them.
Hay said she tried to elevate her complaints to more senior members of the Lake Country RCMP detachment, but felt she was not being taken seriously. The government says it is taking a “phased approach” to responding to the committee’s recommendations. Clark said RCMP policy dictates that if a property is damaged and insecure as a result of a police action, but a responsible “caretaker, resident or homeowner” is available, “the responsibility to secure the residence will fall to them.”
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