Edmonton Police Watch

Sun Media

The Edmonton Police Commission has endorsed a top cop’s decision to suspend the pay of an officer being tried for impaired driving. In early June, Chief Mike Boyd cancelled the pay of Const. Douglas Kurtis Brown, who is facing 11 charges in connection with a crash that injured a young man.

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Sun Media

Edmonton’s police chief says he’s confident few – if any – additional disciplinary hearings will be jeopardized due to a technical glitch that nixed three others.

Chief Mike Boyd told reporters last night that a 2006 human error that affected eight hearings was soon rectified. He said a ninth hearing could have also been compromised, but stressed that hasn’t been confirmed.

The mistake occurred following a temporary change in the scheduling process in 2006, Boyd said. Changing a 90-day system into a three-month one pushed up the clock by 18 hours, causing some officers to miss extension hearing deadlines. “Thank goodness we changed the process just shortly after that to satisfy ourselves there wouldn’t be any problem around that,” Boyd said outside Edmonton Police Commission chambers.

Edmonton Sun

Police Chief Mike Boyd has cancelled the pay of a police officer suspended after being charged with impaired driving in a fiery crash that injured a young man.

Brown, who faces 11 charges in connection with the crash, will be charged with unsafe storage of a firearm after his service firearm was allegedly found improperly stored in his home, and one count of misconduct under the Police Service Regulation of Alberta.

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Edmonton Sun

A senior Edmonton police officer will face a new disciplinary charge of deceit over a press release issued during the Overtime affair, a provincial board has ruled.

In a decision today, the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) directed Chief Mike Boyd to hold a hearing into allegations Insp. Bryan Boulanger was deceitful by “wilfully or negligently making or signing a false, misleading statement or entry” on Nov. 21, 2004.

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Edmonton Sun

A long-time Edmonton police officer was convicted of impaired driving today for driving drunk from the west-division station after having drinks with colleagues.

Const. Brian Toner, 49, had testified he had been suffering from the flu on the morning of Feb. 24, 2006, but provincial court Judge Peter Johnston ruled the evidence of the 25-year veteran was “not very convincing.”

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Canada.com

EDMONTON – Disciplinary charges were tossed out on a technicality Tuesday against a Edmonton city police constable accused of using a Taser on two sleeping men.

The same technicality threatens charges in 11 other cases, said acting Insp. Chris Boehnke of the Edmonton police professional standards branch. Two were already thrown out May 1, but at that time the branch thought it was an isolated problem.

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Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON – An off-duty Edmonton city constable faces a rash of drinking and driving charges after the BMW he was driving blew through a red light and t-boned a pickup truck, injuring several people in the truck, one of them severely.

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Canada.com

EDMONTON – A Filipina woman who owed an employee more than $1,000 wasn’t sure what to think when the woman approached her, demanding the cash and accompanied by a police officer.

“He was not dressed in uniform,” Jenny Morris said this morning during an internal police hearing.

“For me, the police service is very broad, so I was not sure if he was an undercover detective or … a special agent. When the police are involved, there should be a violent act involved. … I got scared.”

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Canada.com

EDMONTON – An Edmonton man whose sexual assault conviction was quashed by Alberta’s highest court has launched a $1-million lawsuit claiming his reputation was ruined by false allegations, a negligent police investigation and a malicious, reckless prosecution.

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Edmonton Sun

A city police officer has lost his bid to throw out the disciplinary charges he faces.

In a decision this morning, a presiding officer rejected a request by Const. Sebastien Berube to quash the case and ordered the hearing to continue with testimony in May.

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