Edmonton Police Watch

EDMONTON JOURNAL

EDMONTON - An Edmonton police officer connected to a stakeout targeting a city journalist nearly three years ago maintained Tuesday he did not expect a campaign to catch “happy hour drunks” to focus on the columnist.

Staff Sgt. William Newton testified in his own defence before a panel of the Law Enforcement Review Board.

He said a reporter told him in May 2004 that Edmonton Sun columnist Kerry Diotte was rumoured to drink and drive. Newton shared the rumour with his team of traffic officers.

Newton previously said he could not remember the name or sex of the reporter, nor could he remember the media outlet the reporter worked for. He also testified he did nothing to check out the rumour, but considered it a valid tip.

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We will be searching archives of stories on the internet and posting them with post-dated timestamps, so they will appear as being posted around approximately the same time the original news article was released.
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This map displays locations related to the incidents reported as news.

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This is a listing of notable ongoing and past cases or inquiries.
Clicking on a name will bring up all press articles or posts related to that case.

Cases:

• Alesandro Fiacco
• Overtime

Topics:

• Tasers
• Cop-related Fatalities
• SWAT
• Photo Radar
• Shooting
• Racism

This is a listing of notable police who are under investigation, or previously received disciplinary action related to a complaint, or were dismissed of any wrong-doing.

Clicking on a name will bring up all press articles or posts related to that officer.

Constables:

• Const. Andrea Thomas
• Const. Christa Pennie
• Const. Cory Kerr
• Const. Darryl Fox
• Const. Elaine Jensen
• Const. Elvin Toy
• Const. Grant Jongejan
• Const. Jeff Resler
• Const. Jennifer Hanon
• Const. Ken Brander
• Const. Kevin Berge
• Const. Malcolm Allan
• Const. Marc Cochlin
• Const. Michael Wasylyshen
• Const. Rick Abbott
• Const. Ryan Sparreboom
• Const. Scott Abbot
• Const. Sebastien Berube
• Const. Shane Connor
• Const. Thinh Huynh
• Const. Todd Hudec
• Const. Tom Bechtold

Detectives:

• Det. Jon Warkentin
• Det. Michael Malish
• Det. Tom Bell

Staff Sgts:

• Staff Sgt. Bill Newton
• Staff Sgt. Kerry Nisbet

Chiefs:

• Chief Mike Boyd (?? - Current)
• Chief Bob Wasylyshen (2000 - ??)
• Chief John Lindsay (?? - 2000)
• Chief Darryl Da Costa
• Chief Fred Rayner

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Stay tuned for information related to police misconduct from the Edmonton Police Service.

Edmonton Police Watch is a citizen watchdog group that collects and archives information related to human rights abuses of the Edmonton Police Service, or members of the Edmonton Police Service.

All information on this website is public information that has been collected for the purposes of displaying underlying trends in human rights abuses of the Edmonton Police Service, and as such no information posted here represents any personal viewpoints. We simply archive public information related to police misconduct.

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