§02 — The record

The dated spine, stated plainly. Every line below is drawn from the public record: the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission report (obtained and published by the Vancouver Sun, reported by APTN and CBC), the B.C. ministerial statement, the Ramsay court record, and on-the-record interviews in The Tyee and APTN. Allegations are marked as allegations; none of the misconduct accusations against the officers has been tested in court.primary

When	What the record shows
1991	David Ramsay is appointed to the Provincial Court in Prince George.
1992–2001	The offence window for which Ramsay is later convicted: sexual assaults of Indigenous girls, some of whom appeared before him in court.
late 1990s	Two girls in their early teens tell youth-care worker Kara Myers that local RCMP officers solicit sex in exchange for not laying charges. Myers reports it to her superiors in 1998.
Aug 2002	Ramsay is indicted. A Prince George detachment review hears “various allegations” against as many as nine to ten officers.
2003	Ramsay pleads guilty (May 3) to five of ten charges. Only now — five years after Myers’s report — do RCMP investigators visit Prince George; Myers acts as liaison to the teen witnesses.
Jun 2004	Ramsay is sentenced to seven years.
2004–05	The RCMP runs a task force, Project E-Prevails, into the officer allegations.
Nov 2005	Investigators recommend a charge against one officer; special prosecutors decline, citing insufficient evidence. The force later says it found “no evidence of criminal behaviour.”
Jan 2006	A constable in Kamloops finds videotapes in the basement she had shared with her ex-husband, an officer under E-Prevails investigation. She reports them to a superior, who — she says — tells her to put them back and say nothing. Days later her home is broken into and all but one tape is gone. The break-in is logged as a “civil” matter.
2007	Celynn Sandbach — a key witness — dies after a short illness. The RCMP abandons its case.
Jan 2008	Ramsay dies in Dorchester Penitentiary.
Jun 12 2011	The constable’s criminal complaint is submitted through Staff Sgt. Garry Kerr; that December the surviving tape is handed to the RCMP in Vancouver.
Mar 2012	Kerr retires, never having been told the outcome of the complaint.
2016	Kerr files a formal complaint with the CRCC.verify
2018	The CRCC report finds the RCMP “failed to reasonably investigate” and calls for action on possible criminality “without delay.” It reaches Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
2021	Lucki signs off (March) and the report finally reaches Kerr. He says she “sat on it for two-and-a-half years.”
Nov 2022 → Feb 2023	The Toronto Star breaks the story; the Vancouver Sun publishes the report.
Mar 8 2023	B.C. orders an independent investigation by Alberta’s ASIRT.
Dec 2025	Garry Kerr dies, without seeing the outcome. ASIRT is folded into Alberta’s new Police Review Commission.
2026	The report is “in the coming weeks.”

Counter: read the column of years as the evidence, not the backdrop. The story is in the gaps — 1998 to 2003, 2011 to 2016, 2018 to 2021, 2023 to now.