Four traumatized RCMP members exposed to extreme violence while serving in Nunavut have filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court of Canada alleging their employer failed to provide them with adequate mental health care and subjected them to abusive and discriminatory treatment for seeking such care, according to Nunatsiaq News.

Their statement of claim, filed on Sept. 16, makes numerous disturbing allegations that suggest the Nunavut RCMP suffers from a deeply dysfunctional workplace culture. The four police officers allege that when Mounties seek help for on-the-job stress injuries, their supervisors resist and often refuse such requests.

And the lawsuit alleges that even when traumatized Mounties are allowed to receive mental health care, upon their return they suffer treatment from supervisors that makes their existing mental health problems even worse.

Much of the trauma the members suffered appears to be related to multiple violent incidents in Nunavut as well as other remote Arctic locations.