{"id":857203,"date":"2026-08-14T00:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:56:21","slug":"b-c-rcmp-commanding-officer-relieved-of-duties-following-unspecified-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857203\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. RCMP commanding officer relieved of duties following unspecified allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The RCMP’s commanding officer in B.C. has been relieved of his duties following unspecified allegations dating from 2016 to 2018, according to a statement from the force. <\/p>\n

Dwayne McDonald has been replaced in his capacity as deputy commissioner and B.C. RCMP commanding officer by John Brewer, who previously headed up B.C.’s extortion task force<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The statement<\/a>, attributed to RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme on Thursday, said the force would not be providing further details on the allegations at this time.<\/p>\n

“I want to reassure you that there will be no impact on RCMP operations or policing services in the province,” Duheme said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\"ADwayne McDonald had also served as the RCMP’s deputy commissioner in addition to his role as the top Mountie in B.C. He is seen here in 2023. (Maggie MacPherson\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The statement says the allegations are under investigation, and they were “recently brought” to the RCMP’s attention.<\/p>\n

McDonald was formerly the top cop at the Surrey RCMP<\/a>, and served as the RCMP’s criminal operations officer <\/a>in charge of\u00a0federal and organized crime investigations\u00a0for the province of B.C. <\/p>\n

CBC News has reached out to the RCMP for more on this story.<\/p>\n

McDonald’s bio has been removed from a page<\/a> listing the RCMP’s senior executive committee.<\/p>\n

A 2024 bio<\/a> said he had nearly three decades of law enforcement experience, and previously worked at the Canada Border Services Agency. <\/p>\n

He had held a number of other roles \u2014 including heading up both the Lower Mainland’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit \u2014 and frequently spoke at news conferences.<\/p>\n

\"AAs head of the B.C. RCMP, McDonald was responsible for the largest of the RCMP’s 15 divisions. (Ben Nelms\/CBC)<\/p>\n

McDonald received<\/a> the Order of Merit of the Police Forces in 2015.<\/p>\n

The B.C. RCMP, or E Division, is the largest of the force’s 15 divisions.<\/p>\n

\"AJohn Brewer, who has now been appointed as the top cop for the B.C. RCMP in an interim capacity, was previously the head of B.C.’s extortion task force. (Ben Nelms\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Brewer, who was appointed as interim commanding officer of E Division and deputy commissioner, was previously an assistant commissioner with the RCMP.<\/p>\n

In the RCMP statement, Duheme is quoted as saying that Brewer has his full confidence, and that he is a “respected member of the RCMP\u2019s senior leadership team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-857203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}