Former Mountie sentenced to almost six years on sex charges

Apr 24, 2018 | 3:41 PM

KAMLOOPS — Former RCMP officer Alan Davidson has been sentenced to almost six years in prison on sex related charges.

Davidson, who turns 63 years old this Sunday, was sentenced to six years in prison minus 15 days in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops Tuesday.

He was found guilty of indecently assaulting five boys in the late 1970s and early ’80s on Dec. 19, 2017, and pleaded guilty to two additional assaults in Saskatchewan.

The B.C. assaults took place in several communities, including Barriere and Clearwater.

The judge also ordered Davidson be placed on a sex offender registry for 20 years and he has been prohibited from possessing firearms for 10 years.

Davidson was in his 20s and coached youth sports at the time of the offences. He served as an auxiliary police officer before later becoming an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan.

A publication ban in the case protects the identities of the victims, who are now in their 50s but were mostly in their early teens at the time of the assaults.

Davidson faced seven charges in all though he was found not guilty of two indecent assault charges.

Justice Sheri Ann Donegan said the Crown was unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that consent wasn’t given in those cases.

The RCMP says Davidson served at RCMP detachments in Saskatchewan and Alberta from February, 1982 until he retired in August of 1996.

He was arrested in March of 2014 in Calgary where he was living and working for Alberta’s sheriff services.