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A police conduct adjudicator fired a B.C. RCMP officer with immediate effect on Tuesday, finding he “put aside” the oath he took when he joined the federal police force by making vulgar, sexualized and offensive comments on police computer terminals and in a private group chat with fellow officers.
Louise Morel said Coquitlam RCMP Const. Mersad Mesbah’s conduct amounted to discreditable conduct, finding he “abandoned several of the essential core values of the force.”
“He failed to act with integrity, show respect and demonstrate compassion,” Morel said. “I simply cannot justify retaining Const. Mesbah as a member of the RCMP.”
Mesbah is one of three officers from the Coquitlam detachment who faced code of conduct proceedings over the comments made in a group chat on the encrypted Signal messaging app, and over police mobile data terminals.
Former constable Ian Solven resigned from the RCMP in December, after being given 14 days to do so or be fired, while Const. Philip Dick faces the conclusion of his code of conduct proceedings next month.
Morel said she found 34 comments posted by Mesbah over a period of two and half years, most of which were on police mobile computers, to be discourteous, discreditable or both.
Mesbah, she said, admitted that only four of the “sexist, racist, disparaging and vulgar comments” were discourteous and discreditable.
“In a nutshell, the seriousness of the misconduct itself, its gravity stands on its own. I find it incredible that Const. Mesbah did not realize that his inappropriate comments over the extended period of two and a half years were unprofessional, offensive, and could very well become public and damage the reputation of the force,” Morel said.
Mesbah had served with the RCMP for four years when he was suspended with pay in July 2021.
The code of conduct proceedings were “protracted,” Morel said, and it was noted by the RCMP conduct authority representative that Mesbah has “spent more time suspended with pay than in active service.”
During submissions in the code of conduct hearing between February and November 2025, a lawyer for the RCMP conduct authority said Mesbah’s comments in the chats were “downright ghastly.”
Messages he authored over the data terminals and on the Signal group chat included a stream of obscene descriptions and observations about female police officers, and a comment about racially profiling someone he pulled over.
In the notice of conduct hearing for Mesbah, the list of offending messages included a mobile data terminal entry referring to a domestic violence complainant as a “piece of garbage” that he hoped would be killed.
Morel said Mesbah’s messages “contained profanities, obscenities and vulgarities,” that demeaned colleagues and members of the public. “He knew or ought to have known that these comments were completely unacceptable,” she said.
The comments came to light after a colleague made a complaint about sexist, racist and harassing comments about him, other police officers and members of the public in 2021.
Mesbah had said he was deeply regretful of his actions and that he used the chats to vent frustrations with the job, and didn’t mean for his comments to be hurtful or malicious.
Morel said she found his apologies and remorse sincere and genuine, but his above-average employment history and positive references were “overshadowed” by the misconduct.
“Const. Mesbah took an oath to serve the public and he put aside this oath to degrade members of the public and coworkers. I find that he bears the responsibility for this violation of public trust,” she said.
Alison Tremblay, Mesbah’s lawyer, said her client had no comment in an emailed statement Tuesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 13, 2026.
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press
