Former cop critical of decision making in Pickton investigation
Posted January 25, 2012 3:49 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Former Vancouver police detective Kim Rossmo has told the Missing Women Inquiry the VPD could have stopped serial killer Robert Pickton more than two years before he was finally caught.
“I think there was a good chance it could have been solved by the end of 1999 if the appropriate resources were deployed and the Vancouver Police Department was properly engaged in this and had accepted the serial killer theory.”
Instead, the geographic profiler says they continued to reject the idea that the women had been murdered. Pickton wasn’t caught until February 2002.
Rossmo also has told the Inquiry that the force needs a way for officers to challenge the decisions of their superiors.
“The investigative opinions should be based on evidence, information, knowledge, experience, not just the number of stripes and stars on someone’s uniform.”
Rossmo warned a serial killer was murdering Vancouver sex workers in 1998 and 1999, but the man in charge of the major crime unit decided the theory was wrong.
