WATCH ABOVE: A Peel police officer with 30 years experience is being charged with accessing child pornography. Caryn Lieberman reports.
TORONTO – A Peel police officer accused of allegedly possessing child pornography has been released Thursday with conditions on bail of $8,000.
Detective Craig Wattier is required to live with his wife in a Brampton home, and is banned from going to any place where children under 16 years of age might be.
He is also not allowed to use computers or any device with internet access.
There is a publication ban on all evidence presented at the bail hearing Thursday morning, which Wattier attended with his wife and son.
Wattier, 30-year veteran of the Peel Regional police force, was arrested Wednesday morning by the Internal Affairs Bureau.
He is facing charges of both accessing and possessing child porn, breach of trust, and fraud over $5,000.
Police chief Jennifer Evans says an Internal Affairs investigation began in April after the force received an unspecified complaint.
Evans says Wattier has been suspended with pay in accordance with the Police Services Act.
A brief bio on the Peel Region police website shows Wattier became a police officer in 1985 and that he has worked in a variety of units, including intelligence services, criminal investigations, special victim’s, audits and the major collision bureau.
“I take these allegations very seriously,” said Evans in a statement.
“As a police service there will be difficult days ahead but these allegations should not detract from the great work that is done on a daily basis by the other members of this police service.”
With files from Global’s Caryn Lieberman and Rebecca Joseph.
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