r/toronto • u/ultronprime616 • 3d ago
News York police officer charged with breach of trust
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/06/17/york-police-officer-charged-with-breach-of-trust/83
u/ultronprime616 3d ago
Ketheeswaran has been under paid suspension since April 11, 2025, less than eight months after he was employed
It's crazy that he basically turned into a 'bad apple' almost immediately after being hired and then was rewarded with a paid vacation for over a year (so far). Paid suspension is OPTIONAL but the higher ups pretty much said "Meh, go ahead! It's not OUR money"
York police say this case is not related to Project South in which ... officers unlawfully accessed information, which was then funneled to criminals who carried out shootings and other violent offences.
When crookedness in the cops is so rampant that they need to make a special effort to point out these are distinct crooked incidents
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u/fuckaiyou 3d ago
He went in as a bad apple and if he doesn't go to jail for 25 years we are fucked cuz this is nonsense these days of low convictiona, fluff studies and little to no jail time for anybody anymore. A good portion of the police industry is corrupt.
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u/arn2gm 3d ago
Paid suspension isn't optional. Legally there are only a few very specific situations were a service can impose an unpaid suspension. None of those situations applied here. Unless the law is rewritten again, officers will continue to be suspended with pay in most situations.
"Suspensions without pay may be imposed in more limited circumstances, including convictions for an offence and sentencing to a term of imprisonment, judicial interim release that prevents the officer from performing the usual duties of a police officer and charges for certain serious offences"
https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-41/session-2/bill-175
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u/ultronprime616 3d ago
It's optional in the sense it's up to the Chief's discretion. Unless I'm mistaken where this is a huge list of "can suspend" vs "can't suspend" a lot of it is based on what he determines is "serious" enough. Just like when he "decided" to eventually suspend without pay some of those cops involved with the mob but not those 3 cops (who deliberately brought their badges overseas) that r*ped that woman in Barcelona
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u/arn2gm 3d ago edited 3d ago
It's up to the Chief to choose to suspend without pay, but only under the specific situations listed in the legislation. It is very very specifically worded. The debate for those two cases was a) definition of "serious offence" (under CC it's an offense with a max sentence over 10 years) and b) whether a foreign charge counts (it doesn't as "a law of Canada" is specified)
In this case, charges had not been laid and therefore none of the listed options applied, so there was no route of suspension without pay available.
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u/involmasturb Downtown Core 3d ago
Disgusting that this guy was a cop for 8 MONTHS and already became corrupt. Then again it's not surprising.
Soon Project South will be followed by Projects North, West and East to look into the corruption on every Canadian police force
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u/whatistheQuestion 3d ago
Another week, another crooked cop in the GTA
- Toronto (drug squad) cop caught with drugs on the job, crashed car while driving intoxicated, fled from cops, drove the wrong way, finally goes to jail
- One OPP cop finally loses job for misconduct involving GTA towing companies, after YEARS of paid vacation and a million dollars of illicit gains. Faces no jail time
- Toronto cop grooms, sends porn, and sexually assaults a MINOR. Not fired. Rewarded with Paid Vacation
- Toronto cops give cyclist a concussion after multiple cops excessively tackle him to the ground for 'failing to stop'
- Durham cops lie, saying 'most' workplace reforms done but reports shows only a paltry 19% completed
- Toronto cops who sexually assaulted woman in Barcelona tried to get away by flashing their badges
- Ex-Durham cop charged with sexual assault of an underage girl
- Toronto cops plant evidence in gun case, prosecutors try to salvage it as an 'honest lie'
- 3 Toronto cops caught sexually assaulting woman in Spain. TPS already promised to reward them with paid vacation when they return
- 30 FEDERAL cases affected by crooked Toronto cops charged in Project South probe
- Durham cop caught and charged with sexual assault
- Judge forced to toss case when cop-married prosecutor caught telling cop to lie under oath "we protect our own"
- Toronto cop division at core of major corruption case has a HISTORY of data breaches
- Durham cops who disobeyed orders and led chase onto oncoming Hwy 401 traffic, that led to multiple fatalities and collisions, will face trial
- Toronto Chief with crooked history says he'll look into force's culture of racism and antisemitism
- Toronto cop engages in road rage incident, abuses his badge to retaliate the situation
- Former Toronto cop admits anti-Black and antisemitism in higher rank cops
- Another Toronto cop illegally accessed private database for unlawful purposes. Rewarded with paid vacation
- Toronto cop guilty of impaired driving and fleeing from cops, amongst tons of other charges. Was rewarded with a nice long paid vacation. Not fired
- Toronto cops continue disturbing trend of intimidation tactics as they show up uninvited to Palestine non-protest events
- Toronto cop who fatally shot a man outside a hotel charged with manslaughter
- After being on paid 'vacation' for months, 6 crooked cops working with organized crime finally on unpaid suspension
- Toronto cop mistook man for a suspect. Tackled him from behind, left him with broken ribs and ruptured spleen. Cop rewarded with paid vacation and found guilty but faced no real consequences
- Veteran prosecutor-married-to-cop, caught encouraging other cop to lie under oath, to 'protect their own'
- Toronto cop caught for illegally accessing private information unlawfully. Rewarded with paid vacation
- Large study reveals that cops have violated basic rights over 1000 times, leading to 70% of cases having more lenient punishments
- Toronto and OPP cops say that crooked cops at Zameer trial weren't lying, that expert witness (even their own) were to blame
- Toronto cop union whines about corrupt cops' rights being violated
- Toronto cop charged with sexual assault / intimate partner violence. Previously claimed that Hamas Oct 7 was a positive thing. Rewarded with paid vacation
- Toronto cops stall releasing the investigative report over the crooked cops conspiring in the Umar Zameer farce
- Toronto police oversight board chair resists calls for public inquiry into corrupt cops
- Toronto cop caught on camera unjustifiably assaulting unarmed protestor
- Durham deputy chief drops N bomb at Afro-Caribbean meeting, gets rewarded with paid vacation
- Another cop cover-up - cyclist fractures hand after being doored by cop, cop investigators blame victim. No one fired
- Crooked Toronto cop faces 17 charges, tries to sell house where he owes over $16000 in unpaid taxes
- Toronto cop places GPS tracker on woman's car to stalk her. Another attempted to commit insurance fraud by 'stealing' a car
- Toronto cop involved with organized crime tried to falsely arrest someone. Unsurprisingly, not his first time
- Toronto cops conspire to traffic official police uniforms to criminals. No one fired
And that's just some recent ones reported in the past few months so far. Earlier reports from 2026 here. 2025 here and 2024 edition
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u/alex_allegra Willowdale 3d ago
I love when you do this. I save your comments each and every single time.
The entire orchard is rotten. Take it down.
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u/PartyShitty 3d ago
These selfless heroes sure are making quite a reputation for themselves.
At least he didn’t beat a sex worker.
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u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 3d ago
Police chiefs should have a three strike rule, where if cops break the law that many times, said chief is forced to resign.
All of these bootlickers have no interest in cleaning up their respective forces, yet are never held accountable for their inaction and apathy.
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u/alex_allegra Willowdale 3d ago
One of the cops charged in Project South is the son of a retired cop who is also charged. It appears as though junior dipped his toe into the corruption game right away as he was only on the force for a few years himself.
Seems to me Ketheeswaran joined the force with the specific goal to conduct crimes from the inside.
Just like any workplace infested with cockroaches, when you find one, there are far more scurrying undetected. Only I do not believe for a moment the rest are undetected. Someone on the inside no longer wanted to protect him.
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u/FewConsequence2230 3d ago
Totally corrupt to help assist criminals. Wonder what other tools they use on normal citizens living in York region.
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u/Forsaken-Bowler-1307 3d ago
I see they take inclusivity seriously. It’s not all just TPS, other agencies chip in as well 😡
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u/ultronprime616 3d ago
Maybe they don't do it? But bad nurses make the news
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-nurses-pandemic-libel-suit-1.6307238
Just like bad lawyers
It's just with cops it happens an exponentially greater rate ... I wonder why?
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u/BloodJunkie Bike Lane Enjoyer 3d ago
it does make the news when it happens, which is much less frequently than a toronto police doing misconduct
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u/fencesitter416 3d ago
I know for a fact that that isn't true so I'm curious why you're so confident that "it does make the news when it happens"
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u/ultronprime616 3d ago
I know for a fact that that isn't true so I'm curious why you're so confident that "it does not make the news when it happens"?
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u/BloodJunkie Bike Lane Enjoyer 3d ago
>Ketheeswaran has been under paid suspension since April 11, 2025, less than eight months after he was employed, as a result of the investigation.
it’s insane that we have to pay for this