Claude Savoie (policeman)
Canadian police officer (1943-1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Philippe Claude Savoie (1943 – 21 December 1992) was a Canadian career policeman and senior anti-drug officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), while simultaneously a co-conspirator with the West End Gang of Montreal and its leader Allan "The Weasel" Ross. Savoie committed suicide in his office at the RCMP headquarters in Ottawa after his links to organized crime were exposed by investigative journalists from The Fifth Estate television program. The exposure of Savoie shattered the Canadian people's image of the Mounties as an incorruptible police force and was described by the Canadian scholar Steven Schneider as "the biggest case of police corruption in Canada for years".[1]
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Claude Savoie | |
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![]() Savoie in a 1992 episode of The Fifth Estate | |
Born | Joseph Philippe Claude Savoie 1943 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Died | 21 December 1992(1992-12-21) (aged 49) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Police career | |
Department | ![]() Criminal Intelligence Service |
Service years | 1965–1992 |
Rank | Inspector |
Cause of death | Suicide by gunshot |
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