Catherine Galliford, the RCMP officer who has launched a lawsuit for sexual harassment against the Force, dead at the age of 58 –
Catherine Galliford, a former high-profile RCMP spokesperson who later sued the armed forces for widespread sexual harassment, died at the age of 58.
Galliford, who spoke on behalf of the armed forces during high-profile matters such as the Bombing Trial in Air India and the investigation into serial killer Robert Pickton, rose the RCMP ranges in the 90s and early 2000s and served as corporal.
In 2011 she spoke exclusively with CBC News and claimed sexual harassment in the long term for two decades with the RCMP.
Her treatment, of which she said she left her with PTSD and Agorafobia, eventually applied to put on a lawsuit that was settled in 2016. It led to a wave of other civil suits from other officers who forced a settlement within RCMP ranges.
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Galliford died of Friday from liver Cancer in Kamloops, BC, according to her friends and colleague -for example RCMP officers Janet Merlo and Cheryl Jarvis, who were with her.
Merlo was one of the head claimants in a civil court case that claimed that sexual harassment within the RCMP was credited and Galliford has been credited to inspire her to come forward.
“It was Catherine’s interview that encouraged the rest of us to speak and find our voices,” Merlo told CBC News.
“She was the inspiration,” she added. “If she hadn’t done that interview, I would never have said anything. I would have just gone to my serious silence like everyone else. But she was definitely the person who stuck that torch for me personally.”
May 2012 Civil Suite was against four officers, an RCMP doctor, the attorney general of Canada and Minister of Justice of BC
Both officers said, despite the fact that more than $ 100 million, they received both complaints from serving members every week who claim mistreatment that were paid to victims of sexual harassment within the RCMP.
Jarvis, who also said she was sexually harassed while she had the armed forces, said she wants Galliford to be remembered because she was a compassionate and empathetic police officer whose courage would inspire others within the RCMP to speak.
‘I really hope in her [memory]That torch is passed on to those who now work, that she gives them the power to get up and say: ‘It is still going on. This is still what happens to us’ … use it if your battle cry to say that enough is enough, “said the former Mounu.
A former RCMP spokesperson who was made public more than ten years ago with accusations of sexual misconduct. As Jon Hernandez reports CBC, Galliford struggled with PTSD in the following years. But her actions inspired other women to speak out.
Speaked on behalf of Pickton’s victims
Galliford was born on December 28, 1966 and Jarvis said she grew up in the Vancouver area before moving to Prince George, BC
The former spokesperson used a background in journalism to inform her career as the media spokesperson, according to Jarvis.
Jarvis, Merlo and Galliford all graduated together from the RCMP Academy in 1991.
Although she handled the handling of the RCMP of many high-profile matters, Galliford later spoke on behalf of Pickton victims in the investigation into the serial killer’s case.
Galliford told CBC News in 2011 that the police were indifferent to the investigation, and said that researchers were more interested in filling their wage checks and drinking alcohol than catching a serial killer.
Jarvis said that on behalf of the family of Pickton’s victims, her testimony showed how empathetic and compassionate Galliford was.
“She tried to close the families … to say, you know,” someone listens, “said Jarvis.
“She was a really great woman that way.”
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During her interview in 2011 with CBC News, Galliford revealed countless cases in which she had been the victim of sexual harassment during her two decades about the force, as well as her struggle with PTSD and Agorafobia.
“If I had a cent for every time one of my bosses asked me to sit on his lap, I would now be on a yacht in the Bahamas,” she said in that interview.
In May 2012, Galliford submitted a civil procedure against four officers, an RCMP doctor, the attorney general of Canada, who supervises the RCMP and the Minister of Justice of BC.
The suit was eventually arranged in 2016, although Galliford said she lost everything after she had gone public, including her position over the Force and her house.
Merlo said that the stress caused by her treatment on the force probably contributed to the cancer that eventually caused her death.
“It broke my heart that her whole life was torn apart for nothing but to tell the truth,” said Merlo.
Merlo says that she hopes that the life and death of Galiford will encourage other victims to speak out.
“I think the call for action must now be for the current RCMP members who see this, and they know what’s going on, but they are afraid to speak out,” she said.
“In the name of Catherine and in the memory of Catherine you have to find your voice and become public.”
