Indecent exposure, threatening texts, domestic violence: B.C. RCMP misconduct decisions released

Earlier this month, the RCMP released a number of disciplinary decisions from 2021. In B.C., five officers were found to have committed misconduct that included impaired driving, domestic violence, sending threatening texts, and indecent exposure.

Earlier this month, the RCMP released a number of disciplinary decisions from 2021. In B.C., five officers were found to have committed misconduct that included impaired driving, domestic violence, sending threatening texts, and indecent exposure.

Const. Norlund admitted to having "acquired, possessed and consumed cocaine" on five occasions in March of 2019. The officer was, according to the decision, suffering from PTSD and a substance use disorder at the time. Although he did not buy or use drugs while on duty, the purchase of a prohibited substance, the association with "individuals involved in criminal activities" and the fact that at least one person Norlund bought drugs from knew he was a Mountie meant his behaviour was "likely to bring discredit to the force."

As a penalty, he was fined 20 days' pay, made to forfeit 20 days of paid leave and required to participate in medical treatment and alcohol and drug use monitoring.

Read the full decision from Jan. 28, 2021. 

Const. Fulcher faced one allegation of misconduct for "exposing himself in view of members of the public."

In September of 2018, two teenage girls were walking by a home in their neighbourhood when they saw a naked man in the window of a brightly lit room who "appeared to be possibly masturbating." The girls told their parents, who then called the local RCMP detachment. When police got to the home, the man was identified as Fulcher. He was charged with committing an indecent act, but that charge was later withdrawn.

Fulcher admitted to being naked in his window but denied masturbating, saying "it was possible that his hand briefly touched his penis."