A Calgary police officer is facing charges following a string of thefts from hardware stores over the course of a year.<\/p>\n
The Calgary Police Service (CPS) says it began investigating this month after getting reports of hardware store thefts in Calgary and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
Police allege more than $10,000 worth of items were stolen over a 12-month period.<\/p>\n
The investigation led to a CPS officer being identified as a suspect.<\/p>\n
Const. Bradley Tepper, a 20-year member of the force, has been charged with one count of theft over $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000. CPS says he has been relieved of his duties.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a criminal investigation involves one of our own members, it has the potential to undermine trust and confidence in our Service,\u201d says Calgary Police Chief Katie McLellan in a statement. \u201cWith investigations like this, our responsibility to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation is integral to upholding our principles of accountability and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tepper is expected to appear in court in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary police officer is facing charges following a string of thefts from hardware stores over the course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-100256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}