{"id":620092,"date":"2026-04-22T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:11:09","slug":"toronto-police-officer-charged-with-unauthorized-use-of-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620092\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officer charged with unauthorized use of computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto police officer has been charged after allegedly accessing private police databases unlawfully last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Tuesday, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said it happened on multiple occasions between June and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, 33-year-old Const. Rifat Hassan was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a computer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TPS said his arrest was not connected to Project South, which is a separate investigation that involved similar allegations of accessing confidential information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TPS added that it was seeking to suspend Hassan without pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hassan has been with TPS for 10 months and is assigned to the 53 Division in midtown Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto police officer has been charged after allegedly accessing private police databases unlawfully last year. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-620092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620092","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=620092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620092\/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=620092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}