Alta. RCMP officer charged for allegedly sharing non top secret data with Republic of Rwanda

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Good evening everyone a Frontline RCMP Constable whose job it is to enforce the law is tonight accused of breaking it the mount he accused of using his position to help a foreign actor and while police say the information accessed was not top secret it is serious the breach is one of several

High-profile cases recently William Miker a former Moun and resident of Hong Kong is accused of using his Canadian Network to help China last week Cameron Oris a former RCMP intelligence official was sent s to 14 years for leaking information and last month a 911 operator in Calgary was accused of

Pulling data to help individuals connected to organized crime and for more let’s go to ctv’s Mike lur who has been tracking this story out of our Ottawa Bureau and Mike what do we know about which country this mounty was allegedly trying to help and what he was trying to

Access yeah Omar we don’t know what information was passed on but we do know that it went to the Republic of Rwanda now Security Experts point out foreign governments of all stripes are targeting Canada for a variety of reasons and this is a reminder of that reality the RCMP

Says one of their Frontline officers accessed non-top secret record systems now the Moun didn’t disclose what type of information he would have had access to on a daily basis however Security Experts do tell us that a police officer at his level would have had access to the Canadian police information center

Which is a central police database it stores information about crimes and criminals right across this country so Constable Eli inuya is facing three charges breach of trust unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust in respect to the safeguarded information that is part of the security information

Act that act was brought in after 911 and it’s designed to prevent Espionage and information from going to foreign States Omar and the M’s first court appearance on March 11th in Calgary Mike thank you for this tonight

Mike LeCouteur discusses the accusations laid against an officer with Alberta’s RCMP for sharing information with a ‘foreign actor.’

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