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INTERVIEW WITH RYAN JESPERSEN

NS shooter an informant?

WITNESS PROTECTION QUESTIONS?

In the years before Deputy Commissioner Mike Cabana retired, he did many things to attempt improving Canada's Witness Protection Program ...

EVIL DOES NOT HAVE A LOOK

A quick thought I had while reading the news on Nova Scotia's mass shooting.... "I'm very surprised," Crockett said in a brief interview ...

A DAY I WON'T FORGET

THE LAST DAY OF MY LAST OPERATION HELLS ANGEL NEIL SMITH AND VICTIM SEAN SIMMONS On this date, Halifax Regional Police Department will be...

A LETTER TO FORMER DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MIKE CABANA

An unedited excerpt from "You Don't Know Me - I'm in RCMP Witness Protection" The following is an excerpt from my latest book - it is an ...

SIGNING CONTRACTS WITH RCMP WITNESS PROTECTION

UNEDITED EXCERPT FROM PREFACE OF NEW BOOK Preface “The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'co...

'FATHER OF WITNESS PROTECTION"

RCMP WITNESS PROTECTION'S ROLE MODEL In writing my latest book on Canada's Witness Protection Program, I did copious amounts of research....

A LETTER TO ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER ERIC SLINN

An unedited excerpt from "You Don't Know Me - I'm in RCMP Witness Protection" The following is an excerpt from my latest book - it is par...

RCMP AIR SERVICES

VITAL TOOL IN WITNESS PROTECTION There are many tools used to protect those who live in the confines of Canada's Witness Protection Progr...

ANOTHER "LOST BOY" GONE

Jonathan Wayne Lee Anderson (aka Tommy Da) Feb 14, 1980 - Mar 14, 2020 *GRAPHIC LANGUAGE* I typically write about the organized crime wor...

R.C.M.P SOURCE AT 15

TOO YOUNG TO SHAVE BUT BOY I THOUGHT I WAS A MAN It seems like such a distant memory in some ways yet in others it is clear enough in my ...

RCMP WITNESS PROTECTION COORDINATORS

FIGHTING ORGANIZED CRIME - ONLY THE BEST SHOULD BE CHOSEN Lyman Bryson wrote, “The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a su...

INFORMANT WORK - IS IT WORTH IT?

If I look back over my years with any intellectual honesty, I truly have to wonder - why the hell did I ever work so hard to put away mem...

Canada's Witness Protection Program

So, here it is, my latest book and one I hesitated for many years to write. I have waited patiently in hopes that the RCMP (who administe...

Interview on CJEVOLUTION

CJ Evolution / March 26th / Episode 190 - Paul Derry - Career Criminal & Police Informant turned Author and Speaker

A Job that Sucks

Only to say that I have been both blessed and crucified by the RCMP, allowing me the ability to see the force through some interesting lense

Speechless

This monument serves to remind the people of Moncton that many men and women stand between an evil that most of society could never grasp.

A VISIT TO THE "DARK SIDE"

Every time I speak at criminology classes or a source handling course I am inevitably asked if I would ever work as an agent or informant...

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

It seems that every other day I have to read another article that is filled with garbage when it comes to OMGs such as the Hells Angels o...

A Job Well Done

I have been debating for months now about what I might say or if I should say anything in regards to the retirement of a man who has come...

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