{"id":819029,"date":"2026-07-22T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819029\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:22:14","slug":"two-ottawa-officers-quietly-depart-amid-gender-based-misconduct-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819029\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ottawa officers quietly depart amid gender-based misconduct allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A second constable retired on July 10 while facing criminal charges connected to alleged intimate partner violence, including assault and careless storage and use of his service-issued firearm, CBC reported. He is not being named in order to protect the alleged victim, a civilian member of the service.<\/p>\n<p>Departures are not resolution<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Patrick Watson, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto&#8217;s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, told CBC that resignations save organizations time and litigation costs but also allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/employment-law\/domestic-violence-doesnt-stay-at-home-hr-must-act-now\/578824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">misconduct<\/a> to remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and it does not benefit anyone &#8230; to simply say, &#8216;All good, we got rid of [them], so problem solved,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added departed officers often move into other public-facing roles, warning: &#8220;This is a real problem for public trust &#8230; it only comes to light sometime later that they were facing internal disciplinary charges that were never processed because of their resignations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watson argued legislation should permit investigating former officers after they leave, &#8220;at the very least for inquiry purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second constable retired on July 10 while facing criminal charges connected to alleged intimate partner violence, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,287056,287055,20739,194792],"class_list":["post-819029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-const-tyler-hawkins","tag-gender-based-misconduct","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819029","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=819029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}