RCMP code-of-conduct probe launched over officer in graphic photos

VANCOUVER – Mounties in British Columbia say they have launched a code-of-conduct investigation into an RCMP officer after he reportedly posed for graphic pictures that were posted on an adult bondage website.

Randy Beck, B.C.’s Acting Assistant RCMP Commissioner, says they were alerted to the photos in December 2010, but believed they existed only on the officer’s personal flash drive.

In March of this year, police say they learned the pictures were posted on a website and began another investigation.

In a statement, Beck says as the situation evolved he asked the Richmond RCMP to conduct the code-of-conduct investigation.

Published reports say Cpl. Jim Brown is the subject of the pictures, which show sexually explicit torture images, including one picture where the man is holding a large butcher knife to a naked woman’s throat.

Brown played a minor role in the police investigation into serial killer Robert Pickton, but Missing Women’s inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal says there’s no evidence to support re-opening the hearings.