Fifteen police officers in charge of security during the Winter Games had to be sent home because of behaviour problems ranging from shoplifting to sexual harassment and drunkenness.
According to information released by the RCMP on Monday, only one of the officers posted with the Integrated Security Unit has been charged with a criminal offence.
In that case, the officer allegedly shoplifted from a clothing store in Burnaby.
The other officers were sent home for disciplinary problems including:
- Lifting up a woman's skirt to expose her buttocks at a lounge.
- Taking photographs of Team Canada hockey jerseys in a locker room, in breach of a confidentiality agreement.
- Drunken fighting at a bar.
- Arriving for duty without any bullets.
Three male officers were also sent home for making unwanted sexual advances on female officers.
Vancouver police investigated two of those incidents, but decided not to recommend charges.
Another 33 incidents were investigated by the RCMP, including complaints about an officer who left his gun in a portable toilet in the Whistler Athletes Village, another who was found sleeping on duty, and one who trespassed in a rail yard and threw rocks at parked train cars.
Those three particular complaints were proven to be true, but were resolved through counselling or "operational guidance."
In some of the remaining cases, complaints were either proven to be unsubstantiated or withdrawn, and in others, the officers accused of misbehaviour could not be identified, as in an alleged assault against a skateboarder.
A total of 6,200 police officers from across the country were posted to the ISU during the course of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
