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VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)

1/21/2013

Transit Police  have some explaining to do.


The Canadian Taxpayers Federation revealed Transit Police accidentally left an explosive device on a plane, and didn't know it was missing for two days.


It happened in 2011 after a dog training exercise.


BC director for the CTF, Jordan Bateman, says this was an expensive mistake.

"They had to involve Richmond and airport RCMP, YVR security, Transport Canada involved, you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars at least in fast time into this file."

The incident was revealed through a Freedom of Information request.
 


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  1. CS_3078 posted on 01/21/2013 12:06 PM
    Back the bus up (no pun intended). Why were the TRANSIT POLICE conducting training exercises on an airplane?!?
    1. AnneH_4 posted on 01/21/2013 12:40 PM
      @CS_3078 Great question - arent these the same guys who do not bother to charge people for riding transit free?

      Everything seems to have fallen part with our government employees
  2. ChrisM_18 posted on 01/21/2013 12:56 PM
    Just listened to the in depth interview with Jordan

    1 - the explosive device was never found - but it's thought it went to the incinerator

    2 - a press release was prepared at the time - but because no news media were aware of the accident - the police never responded to any request for information

    So what more wrong here ??

    That the useless Transit police confirm what a bunch of clowns they are or

    That our Police sit on news releases until someone asks them a question ?

    Seems to me that accountability and transparency no longer exist in our world !!
  3. lican posted on 01/21/2013 02:17 PM
    See now it all makes sense. The transit police are actually on planes......of course because they are defiantly not on any buses. No wonder its so hard to get on a plane for free........Good job transit's finest.
  4. FrankM_7944 posted on 01/21/2013 02:39 PM
    Why on earth is TRANSLINK asking for more money from the taxpayer, when they have police officers training with bombs on planes!

    They can't even patrol the buses, and they are on planes!!

    Dis-band this over paid useless force immediately, save thirty million a year, and quit asking the public for more money!! Time for TRANSLINK to clean house.

    What does Canada's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team have to say about this being carried on a passenger plane.

    We are going to have to listen to Anne Drennan spin this into a positive on behalf of making over a hundred grand a year!
  5. DaveN_4918 posted on 01/21/2013 04:10 PM
    Who needs Al Qaeda when you have the Transit Police?!?!? Here we are worried about terrorism etc, and yet this idiot left explosive material on an airplane ........ and didn't even realize it for two days!
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