Global News in Toronto has caught a police officer watching a game between the Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers on a monitor in his marked vehicle while investigating a double-shooting. It happened Saturday night.
Here's the footage captured by a Global News camera operator at the scene. You can clearly see the hockey game on the monitor in a police vehicle marked "supervisor."
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Global News contacted Toronto police for comment. Here's what spokesperson Megan Grey told them:
“Generally speaking, our members are expected to use all equipment for police-related business.“For this particular incident, the images have been sent to the unit complaints coordinator at the officer's unit for review.”
Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, also issued a statement on the footage. Here's what he had to say:
“recording police officers is nothing new. [Officers] realize when they're on duty … at any moment someone can pull out their phone and they're on video.”“I can say that our officers are highly trained, professional men and women, who work hard to keep Toronto one of the safest cities in North America."
McCormack cautioned his comments were general in nature and that he could not speak on the specific incident in question.
Source: Global News Toronto
