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OPP sergeant charged after a child exploitation investigation.

Sgt. Chris Weise — a 28-year veteran and team leader with the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit — faces charges of accessing and possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material. Police executed a search warrant at his Alliston home in June and seized electronic devices. He was arrested Sept. 8 and is due in Bradford court Oct. 8.

OPP says he was already on a paid “unrelated” leave. They have not said when it started or why.

This follows other recent OPP cases involving sexual-related charges, including officers from Southern Georgian Bay and Sault Ste. Marie. Several have been on paid leave or suspended with pay.

Allegations are unproven. Innocent until proven guilty.

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London Police under investigation after a video from June 24 — the day of Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto’s funeral — shows members leaving a restaurant and getting into an unmarked LPS vehicle. Chief Thai Truong says alcohol is visible inside and a service firearm was stored in a way that raised concerns.

Truong says he viewed the video himself and acted before it went public: firearm file sent to Toronto Police for a criminal probe, conduct investigation to follow under the Community Safety and Policing Act, one senior officer suspended with pay. Moving first is the right look. Doing this after a fallen officer’s funeral is not.

Questions still sit there. The statement describes members — plural — entering the vehicle, but only one senior officer is suspended, and no names have been released. Until there are charges, a hearing, or a real update, most of the picture is still hidden.

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WRPS officer lost a loaded service magazine off their ballistic vest.

September 26. On duty. Noticed around 3 p.m. Police said it went missing sometime between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Wellesley or Woolwich Township. They posted photos of a similar loaded Glock-style mag and asked the public to help find it.

They later said it was located and comments on the WRPS post have been disabled.

That still means a loaded police magazine was unaccounted for in the community for hours. Anyone who found it had live rounds in their hands.
This isn’t new. Peel Const. Zahra Yusufzay left her loaded firearm, spare magazine, and handcuffs in a Mango change room at Square One mall during a lunch break. She was charged with unsafe storage of a firearm and docked 15 days’ pay after admitting it undermined public trust.

If a regular person lost a loaded magazine like this, they’d almost certainly face Criminal Code charges. So what’s the standard here — the same law, or an internal “we found it, thanks everyone”?

A loaded magazine off an officer’s vest is a public safety issue the second it hits the ground. Accountability should look the same whether the person wearing the vest is a civilian or a cop.
Drop your thoughts. Should this stay an internal matter or go the same route as the Square One case?

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Toronto Police are reviewing whether officers still have to wear name tags.

TPS has required visible names since 2006. The Board called it a matter of significant public interest — so the public can identify officers and so the complaints system actually works. After G20, nearly 100 Toronto officers were disciplined for taking tags off.

The RCMP already moved. Since March, Mounties can wear a name or just a five-digit number. Reason given: doxxing and targeting of officers and families. TPS is now citing the same concerns.

Family safety is real. So is this: public servants with the power to detain and use force should not become a number most people forget in ten seconds.
No change has gone to the Board yet. Halton, York, and Peel are not following.

Privacy for the person. A name for the office. Those are not the same thing.

Should officers stay named — or go incognito?

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Newly unsealed Project South documents allege Toronto Police officers sold cocaine to each other.

An Information to Obtain used for more than 50 warrants says Const. Timothy Barnhardt and Const. Saurabjit Bedi discussed buying, weighing, pricing, and redistributing cocaine. Investigators say they recorded a October 2025 plaza deal in a bugged vehicle, with a negotiated price of $230. Afterward one officer asked if he looked messed up because he was going to daycare. The reply, according to the ITO: put on sunglasses — “you got cocaine eyes.”

Another alleged incident: Barnhardt paid a dealer $1,000, then passed a chunk of cocaine to Bedi in a Jeep for a $100 e-transfer. The same filings say an officer was seen consuming what appeared to be cocaine in a division parking lot before a shift.
These are allegations in a warrant application. They have not been tested in court.

Barnhardt, called the genesis of the York Regional Police investigation, also faces allegations he sold confidential database searches and police uniforms. York police have said they only stumbled onto this while probing a separate plot.

Public records. Public interest. Charges remain before the courts.

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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has stopped an extradition case after finding that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents operated unlawfully in Canada and bypassed rules requiring RCMP involvement.

The heavily redacted case involved a Canadian accused in a U.S. drug-trafficking investigation dating back to 2015. Justice Catherine Murray concluded that DEA agents took investigative steps in Canada without the required RCMP supervision. The court found the conduct serious enough that allowing the extradition proceeding to continue would risk legitimizing unlawful foreign law-enforcement activity and damaging the integrity of Canada’s justice system.

Regardless of what anyone thinks about the person accused of drug trafficking, there is a much larger accountability principle here: foreign police agencies do not get to simply ignore Canadian law because they believe their target is guilty. If Canadian police must operate within legal limits, foreign police operating on Canadian soil certainly should too.

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Windsor Police Const. Kenneth Campo, already charged with breach of trust, now faces additional criminal charges after a three-year OPP investigation.
Campo has been with Windsor Police since 2007.

The service asked the OPP to take over the file in August 2023. He was first charged on April 7, 2026, and became the first Windsor officer suspended without pay under the Community Safety and Policing Act.

On August 28 he was charged with two more counts of breach of trust, unauthorized use of a computer, and attempting to obstruct justice. He was released and is due in Windsor court on September 22.

None of the allegations has been proven. What the public still has not been told is what he is actually accused of doing. When a serving officer is charged with misusing a police computer and trying to obstruct justice, that silence is hard to justify.

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RCMP Const. Bridget Morla has been sentenced in Calgary.

She was originally charged with two counts of sexual assault after an ASIRT investigation into an off-duty incident on December 3, 2022 — a hotel room in Airdrie during a youth hockey tournament.

She pleaded guilty to one count of common assault. The sexual-assault charges did not proceed as laid.
Court heard she touched a 16-year-old’s shoulders, thighs, and groin over his clothes. He immediately expressed surprise and discomfort. After learning another teen was 17, she said he was “legal,” tickled him, and placed her fingers inside his waistband. Both acts were without consent.

The sentence: a conditional discharge. 18 months probation, 50 hours of community service, counselling, and no contact with the complainants. If she completes those terms, no criminal conviction is registered.

The judge called it a “bizarre one-off” and pointed to her RCMP performance reviews. The Crown described the assaults as lower-end in violence and intrusiveness. Both complainants said they had no ill will.

Morla remains suspended without pay. An internal RCMP conduct hearing is still coming.

Question for you: when sexual-assault charges against an officer are reduced to common assault and the outcome can leave no record, is that sending a message — or is this the kind of soft sentence sitting beside a growing pattern of Canadian officers charged with sexual offences?

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A Peterborough police officer discharged a firearm inside his own home on New Year’s Eve.
The round travelled through walls and into a neighbour’s house. Nobody was home. Nobody was injured.

Const. Ethan Mamers pleaded guilty to careless use of a firearm. The court issued a conditional discharge and probation — a finding of guilt, but no registered criminal conviction if he complies with the conditions.
Those conditions restrict him from possessing or using weapons at home.

There is an exception: he can still possess or use a weapon in the line of employment.
He had already been moved to administrative duties. Peterborough Police have now opened a Professional Standards investigation.

Two questions this case raises:
Is it reasonable to ban firearms at home after a careless discharge, but still allow the same person to carry one at work?

Should a finding of guilt for a criminal firearms offence automatically affect an officer’s operational duties — or whether they remain a police officer?

Public trust depends on consistent standards. Cases like this are why people keep asking who those standards actually apply to.

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Former Surrey RCMP officer Dawwd Alaaeldine Soukary was sentenced Thursday, August 27, 2026 to 18 months in jail for breach of trust.

He was a probationary constable — still in field training — when this started. He pleaded guilty in April in B.C. Supreme Court. Justice Murray B. Blok accepted a joint Crown-defence submission. The other 12 charges from a 13-count indictment, including drug trafficking, unlawful distribution of cannabis, conspiracy to commit robbery, and theft over $5,000, were stayed.

In August 2020 the RCMP received a report, supported by CCTV, that Soukary had been involved in purchasing a significant volume of Schedule 1 drugs for two suspected criminals identified in court as MN and AH. The tipster said Soukary told him that once he was allowed to work without a trainer, he intended to access police databases to obtain information for those associates.

The anticorruption unit built a fictitious undercover operation. Soukary was recruited into a fake investigation targeting a fake trafficker and paired with an undercover officer who pretended to be a corrupt Mountie. Court records describe 43 staged interactions with that partner and 16 more scenes tied to the sham drug file — 59 scenarios in total.
Between November 30, 2020 and his arrest on January 27, 2021, the court accepted that he accessed confidential police databases and files for a purpose inconsistent with his duties. He photographed Real Time Intelligence Centre bulletins and unauthorized PRIME queries and texted them to MN and AH.

One text attached a screen showing a suspected dealer carrying $40,000 and said to come rob him. While acting as exhibits officer he photographed a drug score sheet and a list of 14 names and numbers and sent them on with a message that it was “free money.” He told the undercover partner he had run names for $2,000.

On the last day of the operation he was given $72,000 in RCMP buy money for a kilogram of cocaine. He negotiated the price down to $63,000, reported that he had paid the full amount, handed $1,000 to the fake partner, and kept $8,000. He was arrested shortly afterward. The cash was recovered. The cocaine never left RCMP control.

The court recorded no evidence that the shared information compromised an active RCMP investigation or led to other completed crimes. Defence argued the sting normalized corruption and raised a real entrapment issue. Crown pointed to the seriousness and repetition of the database misuse, the guilty plea, no prior record, and his age — he was 25 at the time.

He resigned from the RCMP in 2021. The judge also ordered a DNA sample and a $200 victim surcharge.
A rookie badge. Police computers. Criminal associates. Eighteen months in jail.

What’s your take — the sentence, the stayed charges, or the fact he was still on training when this began? Comment below.

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