Calgary police officer charged with criminal harassment – Calgary
A Calgary police officer was charged with felony harassment on Wednesday.
Jacqueline MacNeil was arrested and charged with felony harassment by the RCMP. Police say MacNeil, who has been with the Calgary Police Service for 16 years, isn’t at present on lively responsibility.
Because the incident is being investigated by the RCMP, no additional data might be launched by the CPS.
An officer with the identical title was additionally charged with felony harassment in 2019. CPS has not confirmed nor denied whether or not it’s the identical individual.
Learn extra:
Calgary police officer charged with harassment, undesirable communication
In 2019, an officer with the title Jacqueline MacNeil was charged with undesirable communication and felony harassment after an inside investigation alleged she threatened to damage a sufferer’s popularity each professionally and personally, between April 2018 and November 2018. The sufferer, who was not named within the 2019 CPS press release, reported the incident to the police and an investigative report was despatched to the Edmonton Crown Prosecutor.
The costs had been stayed in courtroom early final yr due to misplaced proof. Nonetheless, Alberta Courtroom of Queen’s Bench Justice Rodney Jerke ruled in March that MacNeil was both “negligent” or “strategic” in not pursuing video proof on the heart of the costs.
“It’s cheap to seek out that the respondent (MacNeil) was negligent in pursuing disclosure, or to deduce that she made a strategic option to not pursue it till she knew it could be misplaced,” Jerke wrote within the choice.
The choose despatched the case again to trial.
