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A provincial agency says it is investigating allegations of misconduct involving seven Toronto police officers and three Peel police officers in connection with a months-long probe into corruption.<\/p>\n
The Law Enforcement Complaints Agency (LECA) has launched “public-interest” investigations into misconduct allegations linked to Project South, a lengthy probe into organized crime and corruption involving members of the Toronto police, the agency said in an email Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The decision to initiate these investigations was based on the information and allegations before the Complaints Director at this time,” the agency said in an email. “As the investigations are ongoing, we are unable to comment further.”<\/p>\n
LECA said it has jurisdiction over municipal police services in Ontario under the Community Safety and Policing Act.<\/p>\n
Investigations in ‘public interest,’ director says<\/p>\n
On Feb. 5, York Regional Police said they had arrested and charged seven Toronto police officers and one retired Toronto police officer, as well as 19 additional suspects, as part of Project South. Investigators allege that the accused officers were involved in serious criminal activity, including conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion, robbery and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 6, Peel police said three of its officers had been suspended in connection with Project South. No names have been released and no Peel police officers have been charged as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 9, LECA said it assumed control of the investigation into alleged misconduct involving Toronto police, and on Thursday, it said it had assumed control of the investigation into misconduct involving Peel police.<\/p>\n
LECA has said its investigations will not interfere with any ongoing criminal investigations or prosecutions, nor does the launch of a conduct investigation displace the right of members of the public to submit related complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-502894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502894","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=502894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}