shockedcanadian
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Time to clean up Canadian policing. It's long over due though probably too late for our economy and global reputation. Trying to dig out of this deep hole that has us stuck in the 1950's is going to take a mammoth movement that our country is too poorly informed to adopt.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-suspensions-in-tow-truck-probe-1.5649083
At least five Toronto police officers have been suspended with pay as the service's internal investigators unit probes their possible ties to corruption in the GTA towing industry, CBC News has learned.
The officers, from several different police divisions, were suspended late last month. Until now, those suspensions were shielded from public view.
The officers have not been charged with wrongdoing — either criminally or under the Police Services Act — at this time.
"I will only confirm that this is a very active professional standards investigation," said Toronto police spokesperson Meghan Gray in an email to CBC Toronto.
"If additional criminal charges are laid, an update will be provided."
For more than two years a turf war has plagued part of the region's towing industry. That escalating violence has seen three tow truck operators shot to death, others wounded and at least 30 tow trucks torched. A joint police investigation dubbed Project Platinum, which resulted in a number of arrests and the expectation that more will follow, found several organized crime groups battling for control of the GTA towing industry.
Now, there are more questions about the role police officers may have played.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-suspensions-in-tow-truck-probe-1.5649083
At least five Toronto police officers have been suspended with pay as the service's internal investigators unit probes their possible ties to corruption in the GTA towing industry, CBC News has learned.
The officers, from several different police divisions, were suspended late last month. Until now, those suspensions were shielded from public view.
The officers have not been charged with wrongdoing — either criminally or under the Police Services Act — at this time.
"I will only confirm that this is a very active professional standards investigation," said Toronto police spokesperson Meghan Gray in an email to CBC Toronto.
"If additional criminal charges are laid, an update will be provided."
For more than two years a turf war has plagued part of the region's towing industry. That escalating violence has seen three tow truck operators shot to death, others wounded and at least 30 tow trucks torched. A joint police investigation dubbed Project Platinum, which resulted in a number of arrests and the expectation that more will follow, found several organized crime groups battling for control of the GTA towing industry.
Now, there are more questions about the role police officers may have played.