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Former Mountie acknowledges tension between intelligence units within RCMP
OTTAWA — A former senior Mountie acknowledges there were tensions from time to time between an intelligence unit he led and one run by Cameron Jay Ortis, who is charged with breaching Canada’s secrets law.
Warren Coons, now a retired chief superintendent, was responsible for the National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, an RCMP unit that aimed to track emerging trends of interest to the force.
At the time, Ortis was director of the RCMP’s Operations Research group, which had access to highly classified intelligence.
Coons told the jury in Ortis’s Ontario Superior Court trial today the relationship between the two units wasn’t adversarial, but it was not a strong one.