{"id":412159,"date":"2026-01-16T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:01:11","slug":"toronto-police-officer-charged-with-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412159\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officer charged with theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto police officer has been charged after allegedly stealing property, including bank cards, delivered to a downtown station last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65035\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65035\/\">Toronto Police Service (TPS) said<\/a> the theft occurred in multiple instances in October 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead of logging the items after being delivered to 52 Division, the officer allegedly took them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An investigation resulted in multiple items recovered, some of which were reported stolen to police, TPS said. Among the recovered items are government-issued ID, bank cards and passports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Const. Derek McCormick has been arrested and charged with four counts of theft under $5,000, breach of trust and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TPS said McCormick has been with the force for 28 years and was assigned to 52 Division. He has been suspended with pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto police officer has been charged after allegedly stealing property, including bank cards, delivered to a downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-412159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","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\/412159","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=412159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}