{"id":528315,"date":"2026-03-11T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:30:14","slug":"toronto-police-officer-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528315\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officer charged with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 7:38PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 6:45PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel police have charged a Toronto police officer with sexual assault in connection with an investigation by their Special Victims Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said in addition to the three counts of sexual assault, 39-year-old Farhan Ali from Markham is also facing three counts of assault and four counts of mischief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They did not release further details about the investigation that led to the charges, saying the matter is now before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Toronto police would only confirm that Ali has been suspended with pay per the requirements of the Community Safety and Policing Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto police spokesperson said the allegations against Ali occurred when he was off duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 7:38PM EDT Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 6:45PM EDT Peel police have charged a Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-528315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528315","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=528315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}