Ottawa, Ontario (AHN) - Complaints against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police grew by 35 percent the past year to 1,692 from 1,258 the previous year, according to the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.

The commission, which released its annual report Thursday, listed five areas that the RCMP must immediately address.

High on the list of RCMP complaints that the commission is investigating is the misuse of Tasers by the Mounties. Then Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day ordered the commission in November 2007 to review the Mounties' protocol on use of the electronic stun gun. In June 2008 the commission issued its final report recommending 12 measures that asked RCMP to limit their use of Taser, clarify to members and the public when is it permissible to use the stun gun and for the RCMP to coordinate and strengthen efforts on reporting, data collection and analysis of Taser use.