" . . . You know, I've interviewed hundreds of children . . ." -- Brian Dueck

 "Tell a big enough lie often enough and people will believe it's true."
Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda

Staring down the lawsuit: Taxpayers are paying for his legal costs as he puts plaintiffs through a discovery process which simply confirms his culpability.

 

Was Brian Dueck trawling for suspects? See these British cases: Roy Shuttlesworth | BBC Panarama: In the name of the children | Transcript of show |

Superintendent Brian George Dueck:

At his press conference in July, 1991 he claimed he had begun investigating this case in 1985. He dubbed it The Scandal of the Century.

Dale and Anita Klassen did not become foster parents until 1987. Peter Klassen was charged on a different matter in 1988 and it would seem this brought the Klassen family to Dueck's attention.

Shortly before he went on TV to defend the cops dumping drunk aboriginals at the edge of town, Dueck was severely chastised by a judge for his bullying tactics in the Kim Cooper case.

Previously on this page, a calendar of this corrupt cop's activities | Witness tampering in the Foster Parent case |

Part of Dueck's CV from Youth Section, ca 1990 | Oct. 27, 2002: Dueck still has his high-paid position

Dueck's amazing rise to the top of the Saskatoon Police Service

Nov. 28, 2001: Dueck still has his job as the most influential cop in the Saskatoon Police Service. On Nov. 22, injusticebuster Sheila Steele wrote to the mayor, city council and the Board of Police Commissioners expressing her intention to seek a remedy for loss of Charter rights resulting from Dueck's actions. On November 26, Michael Ross and Peter Klassen filed a civil claim against Dueck and 22 other individuals for damages suffered from Dueck's investigation.

Hours of meetings among many highly paid individuals at the city and provincial level are now taking place as those sued decide how to respond to these claims. We hope someone is pointing out to them that they have had seven or eight years to respond and chose instead to hide their heads in the sand and try to keep the facts of this case safe behind court seals. They are being sued for many millions by a couple dozen people so far. There are another couple dozen who have legitimate claims in this case.

Then there is Martensville, a completely different case with completely different players which happened after the charges against the non-convicted Foster Parent defendants had been stayed. This was the most expensive trial in Saskatchewan history.

As recently as March, 2001, Dueck and Len Watkins were sent to a meeting of a special legislative committee chaired by MLA Peter Prebble to address the problems of child prostitution in Saskatchewan.

Dueck had turned his back on Michelle and Kathy Ross when they told him they were being raped by their brother. He called it a touching problem. As far as we know his attitudes have not changed.

So what is the Saskatoon Police Service thinking of when it sends this guy as a representative to a meeting on such a topic? Report of the meeting. This is after the fifth estate show where he smugly assured producer Harvey Cashore he could speak to his lawyers, as he importantly took himself off to another meeting.

Saskatoon's Dilemma

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The judge's fiat | November 14, 2000 injusticebusters webeditorial | Can Chief Dave Scott walk away from Dueck and keep his job? | Why is Mayor Jim Maddin failing to act? | Judge Paul Hrabinsky's efforts to protect Dueck | Lawyer Barry Rossman's brief to Court of Queen's Bench to keep this information secret

Feb. 1, 2002: An update of fifth estate's "Scandal of the Century" has brought us hundreds more visitors and letters from people who cannot understand how such a cop can remain in such a powerful position and why he is not in jail.

Feb. 10, 2001: In the past two weeks this page has received over 400 hits, more than our entire site received in our first three months of publication. Readers, including Corporate City Saskatoon who visit every day, will notice that Dueck's shenanigans include matters not even referred to in the lawsuit or in the Foster Parent scandal. Will Dueck's lawyers, who are paid from city taxes, now try to put these matters into a locked box called "civil discovery?" Even a Saskatchewan judge might balk at taking cover-up to that extreme.

injusticebusters say the City has no choice but to face the truth that they have been shielding and promoting a corrupt cop. They should have dumped him a long time ago. We say dump him now. Charge him, try him and jail him for his crimes.

May 30: Amnesty International takes notice of Saskatoon's police brutality record

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