Witness protection program facing new challenges in digital world (Dec. 15, 2015) Derry claims the RCMP failed to prepare him and his family for living in witness protection.“I’d like the program to change.
I don’t ever want to see a family have to go through what my family has had to go through. Especially children.”The lawsuit, filed with the Federal Court of Canada, claims “at no time did the RCMP advise Paul Derry (or his family) of potential mental health risks of being an RCMP informant.”It alleges that his current wife has had a “mental breakdown,” and that his mother “passed away without anyone (at the RCMP) telling him she was even sick.”And it alleges that one of his daughters, when still a teenager and before going into witness.