Female Mountie suspended seven days for sex in a police car with boss

[jakeXT]

9. The consensual is not so clear

It’s the second case in recent months in which a female RCMP officer alleges she was sexually harassed. In October, Const. Susan Gastaldo claimed her boss coerced her into having sexual relations.

The latest case highlights the need for a RCMP union, said Mike Webster, a psychologist who often works with police forces.

“(Sexual harassment) is as frequent in a municipal police department or fire services, as it is in the RCMP,” said Webster, a former Mountie.

“The difference being, in a municipal police service or fire service, the female victim has a union. She can take her complaint forward, sit down with management, they iron it out . . . and she can go back to work. In the RCMP, that doesn’t exist.”
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Pearson was asked to try to get Gastaldo back to work, but instead began a sexual relationship with her as she returned to work part-time.

The misconduct hearing began last September and heard allegations from Gastaldo that she was coerced into having an affair with Pearson, who was in charge of Special O, which conducts covert surveillance on targets of criminal investigations.

The board rejected Gastaldo's claims, which included an allegation of rape, and found the affair was consensual.