Breach of trust charges were laid Friday against three British Columbia Mounties and one jail guard accused of watching two intoxicated female inmates having sex in a jail cell last summer.
Cpl. Kenneth Peter Rick Brown, Const. Evan Neil Larry Elgee, Const. Stephen Richard James Zaharia and guard David John Tompkins are scheduled to make their first court appearance July 18, the province's Criminal Justice Branch announced in a brief statement.
The branch declined any further comment, saying the matter is now before the court.
It is alleged that the officers and the civilian worker at the jail in Kamloops, B.C., watched the women having sex on closed-circuit video last August, rather than intervene.
Both women were in custody for public intoxication, and police have said the investigation looked at whether the women were too drunk to consent to sex.
The incident came to light when RCMP announced a code-of-conduct and criminal investigation into a complaint that seven men had watched an act of consensual sex between two women.
But one of the women told a local newspaper that she was so drunk she didn't remember what happened.
The woman has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court seeking damages. The action names the provincial and federal governments, the City of Kamloops, seven John Does and one Jane Doe.
