shockedcanadian
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Innocent until proven guilty, but our police agencies from the TPS on up to the RCMP seem to be getting a great deal of unwanted media coverage world wide.
This time for three cops sexually assaulting a Spanish prostitute. Then flashing their bags for their standard "get out of jail free card".
After all I have been through and trying to suggest, "it is just a few bad apples" there is increasingly more and more suggesting that I am wrong and this is what they recruit. This is Canada.
www.thestar.com
BARCELONA—Caught at the scene of the alleged crime — an assault against a woman in Barcelona — off-duty Toronto cops identified themselves as police officers to Spanish law enforcement and flashed a Toronto badge, the Star has learned.
It’s not clear what they hoped for by mentioning their police credentials an ocean away from the territory they are sworn to protect and serve. But on that night, along a seaside strip of swanky night clubs popular with young tourists to this Spanish city, the badge earned them neither leniency nor special treatment.
Inside the taxi that two of the three Canadians — constables Evan Penner Glennie and Richard Theodore Rand — had just exited was a female escort, bloodied and shaken. She had allegedly been sexually groped against her will and physically assaulted inside the vehicle.
A third off-duty Toronto cop who had been in the taxi, Const. Caglar Yigit, allegedly fled the scene rather than plead his case to Spanish officers who had responded to the woman’s cries for help.
Yigit was later arrested on the Spanish island of Mallorca, a judicial source told the Star, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Though this happened on May 13, few of the details of what happened that night in Barcelona have been made public. Unlike in Canada, Spanish authorities do not routinely share information about criminal matters and the identities of those charged.
The Star travelled to the city over the weekend to learn more about what transpired and how three Toronto police officers ended up as suspects in the criminal case that, if convicted, carries a potential sentence of years behind bars.
The Spanish charges against the Toronto officers have come as a blow to a force already dealing with the fallout from the Project South corruption probe, which has seen criminal charges laid against seven active Toronto police officers and one retired constable.
Toronto police are also dealing with criticism over accusations made in former homicide boss Hank Idsinga’s memoir, including anti-semitism and a lack of leadership that lead to his departure.
Independent probes into both Project South and Idsinga’s claims have been launched.
Toronto Chief Myron Demkiw said the three officers arrested in Spain, who have since been allowed to return to Canada, have been suspended with pay.
“What I’m focused on is making sure that we’re doing everything we possibly can to hold those members to account and support the work that the Spanish police have done thus far,” he told Newstalk 1010 last week.
This time for three cops sexually assaulting a Spanish prostitute. Then flashing their bags for their standard "get out of jail free card".
After all I have been through and trying to suggest, "it is just a few bad apples" there is increasingly more and more suggesting that I am wrong and this is what they recruit. This is Canada.
Toronto cops in Barcelona flashed badge to local police as they were detained in alleged sex assault
Few of the details of what happened the night of May 13 in Barcelona have been made public.
www.thestar.com
BARCELONA—Caught at the scene of the alleged crime — an assault against a woman in Barcelona — off-duty Toronto cops identified themselves as police officers to Spanish law enforcement and flashed a Toronto badge, the Star has learned.
It’s not clear what they hoped for by mentioning their police credentials an ocean away from the territory they are sworn to protect and serve. But on that night, along a seaside strip of swanky night clubs popular with young tourists to this Spanish city, the badge earned them neither leniency nor special treatment.
Inside the taxi that two of the three Canadians — constables Evan Penner Glennie and Richard Theodore Rand — had just exited was a female escort, bloodied and shaken. She had allegedly been sexually groped against her will and physically assaulted inside the vehicle.
A third off-duty Toronto cop who had been in the taxi, Const. Caglar Yigit, allegedly fled the scene rather than plead his case to Spanish officers who had responded to the woman’s cries for help.
Yigit was later arrested on the Spanish island of Mallorca, a judicial source told the Star, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Though this happened on May 13, few of the details of what happened that night in Barcelona have been made public. Unlike in Canada, Spanish authorities do not routinely share information about criminal matters and the identities of those charged.
The Star travelled to the city over the weekend to learn more about what transpired and how three Toronto police officers ended up as suspects in the criminal case that, if convicted, carries a potential sentence of years behind bars.
The Spanish charges against the Toronto officers have come as a blow to a force already dealing with the fallout from the Project South corruption probe, which has seen criminal charges laid against seven active Toronto police officers and one retired constable.
Toronto police are also dealing with criticism over accusations made in former homicide boss Hank Idsinga’s memoir, including anti-semitism and a lack of leadership that lead to his departure.
Independent probes into both Project South and Idsinga’s claims have been launched.
Toronto Chief Myron Demkiw said the three officers arrested in Spain, who have since been allowed to return to Canada, have been suspended with pay.
“What I’m focused on is making sure that we’re doing everything we possibly can to hold those members to account and support the work that the Spanish police have done thus far,” he told Newstalk 1010 last week.
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