{"id":246403,"date":"2025-10-28T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:55:10","slug":"regina-police-chief-fired-after-messages-to-police-board-member-deemed-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246403\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina police chief fired after messages to police board member deemed inappropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saskatchewan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s Public Complaints Commission has found that Regina police Chief Farooq Sheikh engaged in behaviour &#8220;unbecoming of a chief of police&#8221; after he exchanged inappropriate text messages with an unnamed member of the Board of Police Commissioners. <\/p>\n<p>Farooq Sheikh terminated for cause, will not receive severance<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761684908_662_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"close up of police chief at press conference\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761684909_587_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Regina police Chief Farooq Sheikh was suspended with pay on April 4. (Kirk Fraser\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Regina police Chief Farooq Sheikh has been terminated with cause after Saskatchewan\u2019s Public Complaints Commission completed its investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct. <\/p>\n<p>The commission found that Sheikh had exchanged inappropriate private communications with a member of the Board of Police Commissioners regarding changes to his employment contract. <\/p>\n<p>The board member, who filed a complaint against him earlier this year, was not named. <\/p>\n<p>Sheikh was suspended with pay on April 4, after a public complaint was filed against him. The Regina Police Service and the complaints commission did not release details at the time, saying the matter would remain confidential until the investigation was complete.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh was appointed police chief on Dec. 1, 2023, after serving as the chief of the Alberta sheriffs.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761684910_171_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorprofile-biography\">Chris Edwards is a reporter at CBC Saskatchewan. Before entering journalism, he worked in the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan The province\u2019s Public Complaints Commission has found that Regina police Chief Farooq Sheikh engaged in behaviour &#8220;unbecoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-246403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246403","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=246403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}