An Ontario provincial constable with 17 years of service is facing criminal impaired driving charges while on duty.
Provincial police say their Southern Georgian Bay detachment officers launched an impaired operation investigation on Jan. 15.
Get breaking National news
Police say the investigation involved one of the officers at the detachment.
They say a 39-year-old constable was arrested and charged with operation while impaired with alcohol and operation while impaired with blood alcohol concentration above the legal threshold for impaired driving.
- Suspect in Kits Beach stranger attack released after less than 48 hours in custody
- Man dies after falling off boat into Peterborough-area river, operator charged
- B.C. journalist tormented by Chinese tycoon’s followers relieved after jail sentence
- Bell Centre to host memorial for slain Montreal police officer
They say the officer is scheduled to appear before the Ontario court of justice in Midland on Feb. 26.
Police say the officer has been suspended with pay and the OPP Professional Standards Unit is conducting an internal investigation.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.