Prime Time Crime
A crack in the thin Blue Line - the Toronto Police Corruption Scandal
TORONTO - Two prominent legal experts will lead a review of how Ontario prosecutes complex criminal cases - but the attorney general says the recent collapse of a massive corruption trial involving Toronto police drug squad officers won't be part of their investigation. (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 - A Toronto police officer who was caught on tape sucker-punching a man outside a Rexdale coffee shop was led away in handcuffs when his appeal of the conviction was tossed out of court yesterday. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Officer in strip bar a curious tale Bad day for TPS
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)
Suspended Toronto cop facing new charges
TORONTO - Ned Maodus, a suspended Toronto police officer charged in a 2004 corruption scandal is facing new charges after allegedly offering cash for sex to an undercover cop Wednesday night. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Court hearing for drug squad officers The drug squad scandal Toronto officer in scandal fights discipline charges
Police brass said to have blocked internal probe
TORONTO - A Toronto police "whistle-blower" testified yesterday that interference by senior management prevented a special internal task force from probing all evidence of corruption against several members of a now-disbanded drug squad. (National Post) PREVIOUS: Police corruption probe laid a fraction of charges
Who's protecting this officer's family?
TORONTO - One night in the fall of 1994, shortly after his shift was over, detective Tom Hamilton made a brief stop at a colleague's retirement party, and then he got in his truck and drove north to his home in Keswick. (Toronto Star)
`He made Toronto a safer city'
TORONTO - Even the police horses stood silent yesterday 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. Their white-gloved hands grazed the British flag draped on top of it. (Toronto Star) MORE: Former police chief laid to rest
Police whistleblower offered settlement: lawyer
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 - While the attorney general's ministry says it's appealing the staying of corruption charges against Toronto police officers because the judge got it wrong, lawyers familiar with the office believe the collapse of the case is a symptom of larger difficulties in the ministry's criminal law division, which handles most big prosecutions in Ontario. (Toronto Star)
Behind the Toronto police scandal
'Rogue' police bullied witnesses
No inquiry into botched cop trial
A-G decries suggestions of intentional delay
If media won't obey, he'll cuff'em
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) MORE: Police officers lose name tags battle
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)
Blair boasts victory over city gun crime
TORONTO - The success of a Toronto police strategy that helped reverse last year's frightening flurry of gun crimes has piqued the interest of other big city forces grappling with rising crime, Police Chief William (Bill) Blair said yesterday. (National Post) COMMENT: No time for boasting Daily listing of violent crimes in Toronto Toronto gun crime:The bleak facts GTA shooting 2007
Toronto's top cops get recognized
One ran into a burning building and carried a woman out on his back. Several others tracked down a child predator who was luring young boys into games of strip poker. Two more followed a hunch and stumbled upon armed robbers at a subway station miles away from the person they robbed. (National Post) PREVIOUS: Police force needs cleanup: veteran officer Blair under fire Officer charged for chat to media CBC: Under Fire
Ferguson report released
The Report: Volume 1 Volume 2 Justice Ferguson's comments to the Board .pdf (Feb. 26, 2004)
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