{"id":680785,"date":"2026-05-20T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680785\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:41:11","slug":"toronto-police-officers-arrested-in-spain-will-be-paid-while-suspended-force-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680785\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officers arrested in Spain will be paid while suspended, force confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/toronto-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto police<\/a> officers arrested after a sex worker was allegedly hurt and sexually assaulted while vacationing in Barcelona will all be paid while they are suspended, the force has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Mossos d\u2019Esquadra, the police force of Catalonia, Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11854220\/toronto-police-officers-arrested-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previously confirmed<\/a> three officers had been arrested while travelling in the country, adding that the alleged incident happened in a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Global News has since confirmed through sources that the three officers are Evan Glennie, Rich Rand and Caglar Yigit.<\/p>\n<p>The three men were arrested on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Toronto police said they would be suspended under rules in the\u00a0Community Safety and Policing Act,\u00a0adding they would receive their salaries while they are suspended.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Service will explore the breadth of the Act and legal thresholds to consider suspension without pay,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>One of the officers was suspended when they arrived back in Canada. The other two are expected to be suspended when they return home.<\/p>\n<p>Coun. Shelley Carroll, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, laid down a marker for Toronto Police Services Chief Myron Demkiwin a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when public confidence must be continually reinforced, people also need to see visible leadership and a clear commitment to strengthening the culture and standards of the Service,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect the Chief and Service leadership to demonstrate the actions necessary to maintain the trust the public places in the Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said that, if the officers were found guilty, they \u201cshould be punished\u201d during an unrelated news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic trust in policing is fundamental,\u201d she told reporters. \u201cThe police chief has quite a bit of work to earn back the trust of the folks, and also by rooting out any officers that have allegedly committed any kind of wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Global News\u2019 Tracy Tong and Aaron D\u2019Andrea<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Toronto police officers arrested after a sex worker was allegedly hurt and sexually assaulted while vacationing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,43,44,41,39,42,40,79076],"class_list":["post-680785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680785","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=680785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}