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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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Two officers from the same Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment were charged with sexual assault in back-to-back SIU announcements last week.

Const. Zahid Javed faces three counts of sexual assault and three counts of breach of trust. The SIU says the alleged incidents involved three women between August 2024 and October 2025. The OPP first reported one allegation in February 2026, and investigators later identified two additional complainants.

The next day, Sgt. Blake Hamilton was charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of breach of trust. Those allegations involve a woman in the Township of Tay and stem from December 2025.
Both officers were arrested at SIU headquarters, released on conditions including no contact with the complainants, and are scheduled to appear in Midland court on September 10.

The OPP says both have been suspended with pay.

These are allegations. They have not been proven in court.

Two officers. Same detachment. Charged within 48 hours. What do you think this says about oversight and public trust?

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One dead after Toronto Police shooting in North York.

Just after 1:20 p.m. Aug 22, 2026 officers were called to Wilson Ave & King High Ave for a damaged vehicle driving erratically. The vehicle had already been in a collision and the driver attempted to flee.
An officer discharged their firearm during the interaction.

The driver was pronounced dead on scene. No officers hurt.

SIU is investigating.

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Quebec’s new Bill 13 ban on Hells Angels logos is starting to roll out. Police will soon have the power to stop someone, order them to remove the gear right there, seize it, and issue fines that can hit thousands of dollars if they refuse.

For many in the motorcycle community, a patch is more than clothing — it’s a sign of pride, loyalty, and identity. Being forced to take it off in public can feel like a public display of weakness or disrespect. That kind of forced removal could create new problems instead of solving the ones the government says it’s targeting.

This is only the beginning. The Hells Angels are the first group on the list, but the law gives the minister the ability to add more. How aggressively this gets enforced, how people react when their symbols are taken, and which groups get added next will shape what this actually becomes.

There are also real questions about Charter rights — especially freedom of expression and freedom of association — that could end up tested.
The tools are now in place. What happens from here is still an open question.

What do you think — will this stay limited, or expand further?

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Whitby father gets house arrest upheld after firing at armed home invaders who shot his son

Armed intruders forced their way into a Whitby home in the early hours of June 17, 2022, herding the family into the basement. During the confrontation, the man’s son was shot in the leg.

He wrestled a handgun from one of the intruders, shot one of them, then chased the group as they fled. From his porch he fired roughly three rounds at their getaway vehicle. No one was hit by those final shots.

He was convicted of reckless discharge of a restricted firearm and obstructing police. The trial judge ruled the five-year mandatory minimum unconstitutional in these circumstances and imposed two years less a day of house arrest plus three years’ probation, with strict conditions including GPS monitoring.

The Crown appealed, calling the sentence demonstrably unfit. This week the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, finding the circumstances exceptional: the shooting from the porch happened in the heat of the moment after the man’s family had been threatened and his son shot, and he used a gun taken from the intruders rather than one he brought himself. The court said the sentence already carries onerous conditions and is essentially the maximum available short of jail.

A father defended his family during a violent home invasion. The system still put him under house arrest. The appeal court has now confirmed that stands.

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