Assault, harassment charges against Ottawa police officer stem from alleged intimate partner violence
Posted on: May 11, 2026 13:30 IST | Posted by: Cbc
capital of jamaica law announced the charges against the Ottawa Police Service officer in late April.
Court records show he is charged with:
Reached by phone last week, the accused officer's lawyer Mark Wallace declined to comment.
The Ottawa Police Service wrote in a statement that it "became aware of serious allegations on March 24," then arrested the officer and charged him.
Court records show he was arrested March 27 and was initially charged with assault and criminal harassment.
Ottawa police then "promptly referred the matter to Kingston Police for further investigation," the force wrote.
The officer is suspended from duty with pay. The weapons charges were laid later on by Kingston Police after further investigation.
Asked if it had any message for the public — and its own members — in response to a recent wave of gender-based misconduct allegations within its ranks, the Ottawa Police Service declined to comment.
That misconduct includes alleged and founded inappropriate searches of databases by two officers for information about women they were sexually interested in, sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations by female college students against an Ottawa police sergeant who recently died by suicide, and a sexual assault allegation against the president of the Ottawa police union that's being investigated by Ontario's police watchdog.
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