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A crack in the thin Blue Line - Toronto Police
TORONTO - It took a Superior Court jury about 10 minutes to find Toronto Police Const. Boris Petkovic not guilty of aggravated assault, after the prosecution told court it had not proven its case. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Officer charged once more
TORONTO - Tyrone Phillips, 27, was at Tryst nightclub on Peter Street in late July when his friend started arguing with security guards as they left the establishment. (CityNews)
TORONTO - A Superior Court judge handed a violent prisoner a one-day sentence for assaulting two Toronto cops after they tied up him up "like an animal" as they flew on an RCMP aircraft from Calgary to Toronto. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Right violated
TORONTO - Ontario's governing Liberals are spending $20M on programs they say will help get guns off the street following a deadly shooting in Toronto. (CP)
TORONTO - The Ontario Court of Appeal found Const. Saverio Manafo did not have reasonable grounds to arrest Quincy Brown on a busy Toronto street corner before searching him and finding drugs. (CityNews)
BRAMPTON - Peel Region Police say they are conducting an internal investigation after a judge’s damning words about the “reprehensible” conduct of members of their drug squad. (Toronto Star) MORE: Judge blasts police officers
TORONTO - Toronto Police is investigating an allegation from its own members that two 52 Division officers raised thousands of dollars for the slain Sgt. Ryan Russell trust fund that were not approved by the force. (QMI) MORE: Internal affairs seeks cash Ryan Russell
TORONTO - Officers were called to Milverton Blvd before 10:30am following reports of a suspicious incident involving a man with scissors. (CTV) MORE: Man shot by police Man identified
TORONTO - Police received reports that a man was armed with a knife at the Power Centre Plaza at about 12:30pm. The SIU said that several shots were fired by police after an interaction between a man and police. (CTV) MORE: SIU probes shooting
TORONTO - The SIU has been called in after police shot a man in Oakville, Ont. (QMI)
TORONTO - Const. Corey Dunk is facing one charge of assault with a weapon, and one charge of careless use of a firearm. (CP)
TORONTO - Police responded to a call about a possible domestic incident on the eight floor of an apartment building on Lee Centre Drive just before 7pm. Once on the eighth floor, one of the officers fired his gun. (CP24) MORE: Man shot, woman stabbed
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer doing paid duty directing traffic around a film shoot was struck by a car going through the vehicle's front windshield near the Bathurst bridge at Front Street. (CBC)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer who was accused of kicking a prisoner in the face was acquitted of assault causing bodily harm. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - 3 Toronto police officers have been charged with assault after a man sustained three broken ribs during an arrest. On Friday the SIU said it had reasonable grounds to believe that the officers committed a criminal offence when they arrested 26-year-old Stalin Kiprotich in June. (CTV)
TORONTO - Sgt. Winston Wong, 39, a Toronto police sergeant has been charged with 49 firearms and weapons-related offences, and criminal harassment. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Police Const. Ioan-Florin “John” Floria wept in court after a Superior Court jury acquitted him of six offences, including breach of trust, money laundering and attempt to obstruct justice. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Officer accused
TORONTO - Const. Bryan Thomas, 44, was convicted of assault causing bodily harm June 12 for punching and breaking the jaw of driver, Sarkoon Oraha, 44, on Oct. 2, 2010. Thomas, off-duty at the time, had his girlfriend and two young daughters in the car. (QMI) MORE: Jail for assault Cop guilty
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer violated Ontario’s Human Rights Code when he pursued, then pulled his gun on, an innocent black man driving home from work in a BMW, a tribunal concluded. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Frank Berry, 48, was shot twice on the morning of Feb 20. The probe by the SIU concluded that there were no reasonable grounds to charge the officer with a criminal offence. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Shot man identified
TORONTO - The province’s SIU has concluded that there were no reasonable grounds to charge a Toronto police officer with a criminal offence in the shooting death of Michael Eligon. (CityNews) MORE: SIU finds no wrongdoing Shooting timeline
TORONTO - Jeron Powell pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder, two counts of armed robbery with a firearm and was sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary. The court laughably applied Powell's third lifetime firearms ban. (Sun Media)
TORONTO - Police colleagues are remembering a fellow officer who was killed in a motorcycle accident while off duty. Const. Riccardo Torchia, 30, had worked in 23 Division. (CTV) MORE: Cop dies in crash Police identify officer
TORONTO - G20 protester George Horton was sentenced to 10 months in jail for attacking a police cruiser and assaulting an officer. (QMI)
RCMP member conduct related to the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits
Not guilty in G20 explosives trial
Police want to keep G20 cameras
Police trampled 'basic rights'
'Largest ever' police spy operation
Undercover cop drove anarchists
Protest groups infiltrated by police
Secret law used beyond its intent
Seized weapons not what they seem
G20 police will respond individually
Caught in the act .pdf
TORONTO - Det.-Const. Mandip Sandhu’s claim that he was a helpless victim as the much-smaller masseuse forced herself on him and performed oral sex defies common sense, provincial court Justice John Moore ruled. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - SIU says an officer who struck and killed a woman with his police cruiser last month won't be charged because the woman was jaywalking at the time. (CityNews)
Woman killed by police cruiser
TORONTO - Murder charges have been dropped against a Toronto police officer after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence for a trial. Const. David Cavanagh was charged in the 2010 shooting death of Eric Osawe. Cavanagh shot Osawe, 26, during an early-morning raid at on Sept. 29, 2010. (CityNews)
TORONTO - After nearly six weeks of testimony, a disciplinary hearing for a Toronto police officer accused of sexual harassment and “tyrannical and oppressive behaviour” has been adjourned. The move further delays proceedings for former staff inspector Steve Izzett, which prosecutors say should have been wrapped up by now. (Toronto Star)
Complainant accused of perjury
Officer forced to reveal relationship
Force 'knew what it was getting'
TORONTO - The TPS Board has rejected a request by the police chief for a budget increase of $21.3M. (CityNews)
A better idea than photo radar
Price of police reports to go up
Paid police gigs face city review
TORONTO - A man killed in a police shooting was suffering from mental health issues as well as emotional distress, a family member claims. Reyal Jensen Jardine-Douglas, 25, was fatally shot. (CityNews)
TORONTO - Statistics produced exclusively for the Star show that the vast majority of GTA police officers at the heart of an investigation refuse to give an interview and turn over their notes to the SIU. (Toronto Star)
New rules urged for SIU probes
Secrecy leaves public in the dark
TORONTO - The senior officer in charge of Toronto’s RIDE program was sent home after subordinates smelled alcohol on his breath and noticed him appearing impaired. (QMI) MORE: Police board probe
TORONTO - Dale Anthony Chatrie, 21, died of his injuries after he fell from a Shuter Street apartment following a confrontation with police on Jan 6. (CTV) PREVIOUS: SIU probe SIU call in Falling death
TORONTO - Police figures show that 31,072 people were strip-searched in 2010 - 85 a day - up from 29,789 the previous year. (CBC)
TORONTO - A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was hit during an SUV chase. (CityNews)
TORONTO - Police officers under investigation for shootings or serious injuries will be prohibited from communicating with one another or sharing a lawyer as of Aug. 1, says Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Const. Christopher Hominuk, 38, was given a conditional discharge after a judge ruled that his actions on May 24, 2010, could be attributed to hypoglycemia. (CityNews) MORE: Cop gets discharge
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer has been charged after a man was allegedly assaulted at a police station last week. Const. Matthew Glen, 32, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A judge has sentenced Christopher Higgins, a veteran Toronto police detective, to 90 days in jail for beating up a man who was in police custody. (Toronto Star) MORE: 90 days
TORONTO - Const. Glenn Weddell was charged with assault causing bodily harm, almost one year after the alleged attack took place. (CTV) MORE: Officer charged
TORONTO - It was a desperate cry for help to a police service that would rather look away. But mentally, Sgt. Paul Theriault was falling apart. (QMI)
TORONTO - A 61-year-old man suffered a fracture during an “interaction” with police in a holding cell at 51 Division in October 2010. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - SIU is probing the death of a man who died after being apprehended at a Toronto grocery store. (CP) MORE: Man dies in custody
TORONTO - Const. Edward Ing. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Officers guilty
TORONTO - A Star investigation has found that since 2005, more than 400 officers and prison guards across Ontario received a total of $1.5M from the taxpayer-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - The Toronto Police Service arrested Const. Brandon Fraser and charged him with sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation. (CTV)
TORONTO - A Toronto cop's threat to Taser suspects' testicles was condemned as "disgraceful, unacceptable and shocking" by a Toronto Police spokesman. (QMI)
TORONTO - Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has been called to look into an overnight shooting involving Toronto police that left one man dead. (CTV) MORE: SIU investigating shooting Man shot dead
TORONTO - A shooting involving York Region Police shut down Weston Rd for several hours on Friday. A police officer was also injured, receiving a broken hand. (CityNews) MORE: Scene suggest shootout 2 shot in takedown
TORONTO - Family members who gathered at the Kipling Ave and Albion Rd building on Wednesday identified the man as Munir Isho, a 39-year-old Iraqi immigrant, husband and father of two. (QMI)
TORONTO - Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, has been fined five days on his conviction of insubordination while a member of the police service. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - There will be no criminal charges for two Toronto Police officers who fatally shot a man, the province’s Special Investigations Unit said Wednesday. Wieslaw Duda, 49, was killed April 2010. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Man buried SIU investigating Deadly shooting Man shot
TORONTO - A Toronto Police officer has been charged with assault and uttering threats following a probe of old court transcripts by the province's Special Investigations Unit. Det. Const. Gerrard Arulanandam is charged with: Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Uttering Threats. (CTV)
TORONTO - 7 months after he was recognized as a cop of the month, a Toronto Police officer is now charged with sexually assaulting a man during a traffic stop. (Sun Media) MORE: Officer facing assault charges
TORONTO - The Special Investigations Unit has cleared the Toronto Police Service officers involved in the shooting of a man outside an Eglinton Ave East movie theatre in late December. (CTV)
TORONTO - Police are facing a $1.75M lawsuit by a community worker whose home was raided in May 2008. The lawsuit was filed by Brian Henry and his wife, who live in the Malvern neighbourhood. Their home was raided after a tip from an unknown informant. (CBC)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer is facing charges after allegedly drawing his service revolver during an off-duty verbal dispute with two private security guards. Const. William Hamilton, 58, of Oshawa has been charged. (CTV) MORE: Off duty confrontation
TORONTO - Const. Andrew Vanderburgh was “harassed and berated” by fellow officers because on Nov. 28, 2009, he arrested and charged an off-duty police constable with impaired driving and having a blood-alcohol level over 80 milligrams, according to an internal police disciplinary ruling. (Toronto Star) MORE: Union troubled by 'bully cops' Black day for men in blue
TORONTO - An anti-violence plan that Toronto police say has helped reduce crime in the city by nearly 30% is getting a significant financial boost from the province. The strategy, also known as TAVIS, was established by the Toronto Police Service in 2006 to combat gangs, drugs and illegal weapons. (CBC) MORE: Toughest 'hoods' get $10M 76 arrested in drug probe
TORONTO - He spent 10 weeks in jail last year, charged with crimes he did not commit. Now, Hector San Hueza has slapped police and Crown attorneys with a lawsuit. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A man died after he was shot by a Toronto Police officer outside a movie theatre. (CityNews) MORE: Police shooting
TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers have been charged with assaulting a man after an investigation was launched by the province's SIU. (CP)
TORONTO - A young offender has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to shoot a Toronto police officer. (Toronto Star)
Court protects informant identities
TORONTO - An unusual handwritten note on the courtroom door sets out the ground rules: By judge's order, no one is to publish anything that would reveal "or tend to reveal" the identity of confidential informant CI-186 or any other "C.I.'s" during the course of the trial. (Toronto Star)
Officer cleared is charged again
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer was charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent by the province's SIU - despite being cleared by a police probe into the same incident two years ago, his lawyer said. (Toronto Star) MORE: 19 months later, man says cops shot him
TORONTO - A 31-year-old man was arrested in a fast-food restaurant shortly after he allegedly opened fire on a group of six people – including two plainclothes police officers – in the city's northeast end Friday afternoon. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers enlisted the help of a real estate agent to buy and sell properties they converted to marijuana grow operations in order to fuel a massive "criminal enterprise," police said. (Toronto Star)
GRAND CAYMAN - Former Toronto police officer Richard Hanna's international police career has come to a screeching halt in the Cayman Islands where he has been jailed for 15 months for stealing money from schoolchildren. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Former officer bilked school kids
TORONTO - The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board’s decision, which was released on Feb. 19, found that "even when no gun was found on the Applicant the use of excessive force persisted." It also found that Nimo Gulleid was a "victim of a crime of assault." (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - 5 former Toronto drug squad officers have been sentenced to 45 days of house arrest for their convictions in a police corruption trial. (Toronto Star)
Police 'unplugged' corruption probe
If media won't obey, he'll cuff'em
Don't embarrass the 'carpet cops'
Police tried to dodge public inquiry
Officers face more accusations
Corruption laid a fraction of charges
Police corruption case sent to trial
Suspended cop facing new charges
Officer in scandal fights charges
Behind the Toronto police scandal
TORONTO - Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair. Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino - superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner - have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance. (CBC)
Defending pulling legal support
Tasering violated man's rights
TORONTO - Justice David Brown found the officer fired his Taser at the man's back almost two minutes after another ETF officer had fired his stun gun at the man. Police denied the allegations but Brown said he rejected their evidence and was staying the cocaine trafficking charge against Francis Walcott, 41. (Toronto Star)
`He made Toronto a safer city'
TORONTO - Even the police horses stood silent as pallbearers marched past them at the entrance to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Scarborough. Bagpipes played "Amazing Grace" as eight officers hoisted the casket of former Toronto police chief Jack Marks onto their shoulders. (Toronto Star) MORE: Former police chief laid to rest
Whistleblower offered settlement
Toronto Police Service has offered a settlement to a whistleblower who accused the force of sweeping internal corruption allegations under the carpet, the officer's lawyer says. (CBC)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer and his family feel overwhelming relief that a jury has acquitted him of assaulting a demonstrator and concocting a story to cover his tracks, his lawyer says. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Over red wine, pasta and other Italian fare, OPP Sgt. Mike Rutigliano, defence lawyer Gary Clewley, who had won the case, private investigator Bruce Murray and another defence lawyer, Owen Wigderson, joined Frank D'Angelo, who had just turned 50. Also at the table were Richard Bennett and Domenic Basile, two well-known veteran Crown attorneys. (Toronto Star)
Probe targets courthouse corruption
TORONTO - Making investigative reports about police public will go a long way in improving the reputation of the Special Investigations Unit said former North Bay Police Service chief George Berrigan. (North Bay Nugget)
TORONTO - Racial profiling lawsuits and other civil actions are threatening to drive up the Toronto police force's legal bills just as the Supreme Court of Canada prepares to rule in a case that could open police to even more litigation. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Province brands city a high-risk employer
Police board discourages scrutiny
TORONTO - According to the provincial Police Services Act, hearings conducted by the Police Services Board must be open to the public and notice of the tribunals must be published. The only exception is for prevention of risks to public or personal security. (CBC)
TORONTO - Afzal Badin, late for evening prayer, assessed that the kitchen knife in his hand was no match for the men in the hallway with handguns. (Toronto Star)
Guilty officer gets 'vacation'
TORONTO - The brother of a pedestrian gravely injured in a hit-and-run accident caused by an off-duty officer says he is outraged by the man's conditional sentence. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Jahnoie Tinglin, 21, faces 34 charges, including attempted murder, carrying a concealed weapon and 16 counts of possessing fraudulent credit card information, after 2 police officers were fired on during a foot chase. (Star)
Cop charged in attack on cyclist
Ferguson report released
The Report: Volume 1 Volume 2 Justice Ferguson's comments to the Board .pdf (Feb. 26, 2004)
Police Breaking code of silence
RCMP probes corruption on Toronto Police Force