Protect our Female Police Officers Rights
Protect our Female Police Officers Rights
Hello Everyone,
I hope this post finds you all well.
I am asking you to please sign this petition (see below) to the government of Canada to ensure that their National Action Plan that aims to support women’s and girls’ empowerment and gender equality is proactively fulfilled.
As you may or may not know, sexual and gender-based violence is an unfortunate, tragic reality within the RCMP and other Canadian police force organizations. Recently, many complaints have surfaced in the media detailing disturbing accounts of female police officers who have suffered horrific assault, abuse, and harassment within police force organizations and the devastating impacts such trauma has on their lives. To my horror, I have heard stories where lives have ended in suicide after hard-fought battles against such aggressions.
This is DISTRESSING.
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
It can be an extremely intimidating, vulnerable, isolating, traumatizing and re-traumatizing experience coming forward. So we NEED to add to the voices of those who speak up for themselves and others. We need to support those who suffer in silence. We also need to honour those officers who are no longer with us, who can no longer fight for themselves.
We need the government to stand against violence and toxic work environments and fiercely advocate for the safety, wellbeing and rights of our female officers.
We MUST ensure that our female officers’ rights are protected.
These rights include but are not limited to:
- Working in a safe, peaceful, respectful, and supportive work environment
- Thorough, impartial, and transparent investigations of sexual assault, physical assault, harassment, bullying, and discrimination
- Access to professional legal counsel
- Access to appropriate resources to assist physical, financial, social, occupational, and emotional wellness that are of the officers’ choosing
- The ability to speak up without any repercussions or fear of retaliation whatsoever, and the right to have complaints and concerns taken seriously
I am calling on ALL of us to do our part to protect and defend our female officers’ rights and wellbeing. I invite you to show our police force sisters compassion and empathy, FEEL their suffering, and be MOVED towards action.
Let’s stand with our female police officers.
Please ACT now so that we see accountability in action and contribute to initiating massive reform in the RCMP and other Canadian police force organizations, including a brutally honest review of its conduct measures.
Things can only improve through systemic change, and I am hopeful we can get there when we all raise our voices together.
Please ACT now so that we see accountability in action and contribute to initiating massive reform in the RCMP and other Canadian police force organizations, including a brutally honest review of its conduct measures.
Things can only improve through systemic change, and I am hopeful we can get there when we all raise our voices together.
Thank you in advance for signing the petition (initiated by Susan Rabichuk). Please forward it to ANYONE and EVERYONE you know. The deadline is April 28th, 2022.
**Let me take this opportunity to thank all the members of the Canadian police forces who risk their lives to protect ours and especially thank all those officers who act with respect and integrity towards ALL beings.
**I want to offer a special shout-out and heartfelt thanks to Detective Sergeant Rebecca Miller-Small, whose kindness and empathy I will never forget. Your genuine concern made all the difference in the world after my car accident- I am eternally grateful.
**For my dear friends- you know who you are. I love you, and I am so proud of you for being courageous badasses! Thank you for serving and protecting our country. Thank you for your bravery in speaking up. You are shining examples of compassionate leaders and a true inspiration for us all.
** For ALL my police officers, and their families who need help with PSTD, suicidal ideation, other work-related stress injuries, and require crisis centre contact numbers, please visit:
As someone who has experienced PTSD, depression, and anxiety, I am well aware of the stigma associated with mental illness. I can relate to how difficult it can be to seek help. I encourage you to think of reaching out as a way of “serving and protecting” yourselves and your mental and emotional health. After all, you deserve to live a healthy, fulfilled life.
Take good care of yourselves, and others.
With gratitude,
Lourdes Pereira