The RCMP’s federal watchdog agency is opening a probe into the activities and operations of the Community-Industry Response Group, a special unit that polices protests against resource extraction in B.C.
The RCMP's "E" Division in B.C. created the C-IRG in 2017 to prepare for Indigenous and environmental activism targeting the Trans Mountain expansion and Coastal GasLink pipelines, its founding policing plans say.
On top of handling complaints, the CRCC can conduct reviews of specified RCMP activities to ensure compliance with legislation, regulation, ministerial direction or RCMP policies, procedures and guidelines. The C-IRG generally deploys to enforce injunctions where First Nations groups or environmental activists mount resistance to resource projects.The unit has deployed SWAT teams, crowd-control squads, dogs and helicopters to Wet'suwet'en territory to dismantle blockades interfering with the $14.5-billion Coastal GasLink project.
In 2021, the unit enforced an injunction against blockades against old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek area on Vancouver Island, sparking many of the CRCC complaints.
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