Three police officers suspended in relation to Project South have been back at work since May
The officers were cleared of any criminality, according to a police spokesperson
Three Peel Regional Police officers who were suspended in relation to Project South have returned to work, according to a recent report from Global News.
Shortly after it was first announced that a group of Toronto police officers had been arrested and charged in connection to an organized crime and corruption investigation, Peel police shared that three of its officers had also been suspended, though not arrested or charged.
The Project South investigation is being led by York Regional Police.
“No officers from Peel Regional Police have been charged in connection to Project South. The scope of the York Regional Police investigation is wide-reaching and ongoing,” a police spokesperson told Global News last February.
Asked by Toronto Life when exactly the officers returned to work, a Peel Regional Police spokesperson said by email that “the three Peel Regional Police officers were cleared of any criminality in relation to the Project South investigation. As a result, they were no longer subject to suspension and had all returned to work by May 22.”
The spokesperson noted that the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency is currently conducting a separate independent investigation, “into whether there were any potential misconduct issues under the Community Safety and Policing Act.”
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
