{"id":834294,"date":"2026-07-29T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:19:22","slug":"sex-assault-complaint-against-on-duty-ottawa-police-officer-under-watchdog-probe-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834294\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex assault complaint against on-duty Ottawa police officer under watchdog probe &#8211; Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An on-duty Ottawa police officer is under investigation by Ontario\u2019s police watchdog regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sexual-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sexual assault<\/a> complaint made against them.<\/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 Special Investigations Unit says the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ottawa-police-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Police Service<\/a> contacted it on July 24 after receiving a sexual assault complaint. This prompted SIU to launch its investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\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\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 reported incident occurred in January 2026 and relates to an alleged sexual assault involving an on-duty Ottawa Police Service officer and a woman,\u201d a spokesperson for the SIU told Global News in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two SIU investigators have been assigned to the case, the unit said.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were provided by the SIU and it referred employment-related questions about the officer to the Ottawa Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>Global News has contacted Ottawa police for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An on-duty Ottawa police officer is under investigation by Ontario\u2019s police watchdog regarding a sexual assault complaint made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,2169,20739,291174,194792,7739],"class_list":["post-834294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-crime","tag-ottawa-police-service","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834294","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=834294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}