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Pair of police officers disciplined
Delta Police Department conducts five-month investigation after harassment complaint IAN JACQUES
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Two officers have received internal discipline and nine recommendations have been made following a five-month respectful workplace investigation within the Delta Police Department. The findings and outcome of the investigation were released publicly Wednesday morning
at the monthly meeting of the Delta police board. The investigation, which centered on harassment and sexual harassment involving inappropriate comments, came about following a third-party complaint regarding potential misconduct on a patrol platoon. According to Chief Neil Dubord, an internal investigation was initiated in consultation
— the incident itself and with the Office of the investigate if it is prevaPolice Complaints lent in other areas of the Commissioner last fall. organization,” he said. Dubord said two “The investigators were officers were assigned able to isolate very quickfull-time to the file ly that it was an isolated with more than 30 incident and that it was people interviewed relative to a small numduring the course of Chief Neil ber of people.” the investigation. Dubord Dubord said from “We wanted to be the extensive interviews, nine able to investigate two things
officers were identified and the investigation continued further. “After all of the final reports were done and evidence collected, there were two officers that we felt required discipline and were given discipline as a result of that within our system. There was one officer where a mediation occurred quite successfully,” he said. OFFICERS: see Page 3
Dentist now accepting Bitcoin as payment IAN JACQUES
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Dr. Raj Dhiman prides himself on being forward thinking. He offers what he describes as cutting edge dentistry at Ladner’s Riverside Dental so it seems only natural the dentist would start to accept Bitcoin as a payment method. Bitcoin is a world-wide payment system that is the first decentralized digital currency that works without a central bank. Dhiman, who has invested in Bitcoin and has done extensive research on the technology, was convinced to take the next step by patient Kyle Dunn. Dunn, who grew up in Ladner, is an advocate for cryptocurrency, is a former financial advisor, and founder and CEO of
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Dr. Raj Dhiman of Riverside Dental in Ladner is now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment thanks to patient Kyle Dunn. Vancouver-based Horizon ecoPlanning Group Inc. “Kyle is certainly in the space
and I’ve been learning a lot about Bitcoin, so he convinced me to take this step,” said
Dhiman. “It is a very new technology, but I think this technology is going to change things in
the financial industry and the way things are done.” DENTIST: see Page 3