VANCOUVER — An RCMP officer has been docked pay after it was found that she made inappropriate sexual comments toward a male colleague.
Const. Valerie Little will forfeit 20 days of pay, 10 days of annual leave, and her promotion eligibility for two years, according to a disciplinary hearing decision posted recently. She was also ordered to work under close supervision for a year.
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The sexual misconduct involved two incidents that took place in 2009 and 2010 while the officers were working at the Vernon detachment. Both incidents are contrary to the RCMP’s Code of Conduct.
The first incident took place sometime in November 2009 while Little and the other officer, identified in documents only as A.F., were in a video room watching a training interview of a sex offence suspect being interrogated.
“At one point in the interview, when the male suspect was discussing his own sexual preferences, [Little] leaned over to Constable A. F. and placed [her] right hand on his left thigh and quietly whispered in his ear words to the effect of: ‘I like to take it from behind,‘” read the report.
In a second incident in February 2010, Little ran into A.F. in a hallway at the detachment, around the time the detachment had entered a team, which included A.F., in a broomball tournament. It was known that the sport could get rough and that players needed to wear a jockstrap and cup.
“At one point, only [Little] and Constable A.F. remained in the detachment hallway. [Little] approached Constable A.F. while he was leaning up against a wall. [Little] proceeded to grab the penis of Constable A.F. and squeezed his penis with [her] fingers while stating: ‘I see you’re not wearing a cup,’ ” read the report authored by Josée Thibault.
Following the two incidents, A.F. sought support from a retired senior member of the RCMP, but the retired female member “did not take his complaint as a male victim of sexual assault seriously as she ‘chuckled’ when informed.”
A.F. left the Vernon detachment in March 2011 and did not report the incidents officially until the spring of 2017 when he ran into Little in Nanaimo, where he was working and where Little said she would be transferring.
Little denied both incidents.
In the end, the conduct board ruled against Little, noting that it was more likely than not that the events occurred, considering it would have been easier for A.F. not to file the report due to embarrassment and stress.
“Members of the RCMP are held to a higher standard of behaviour than the general public, both on- and off-duty,” the report notes.
“I find that a reasonable person in society, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances, including the realities of policing in general and the RCMP in particular, would view Constable Little’s actions as likely to bring discredit to the force.”
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