Explosive on a Plane not Transit Police Officer’s Only Blunder

• Transit Police dog had to receive veterinary care to recover from cop’s poor treatment
• Explosive-forgetting Transit Police officer faced dismissal for deceit, neglect of duty and corrupt practice for mistreating his dog, taking a police vehicle across the border and deception in his reports

VANCOUVER, B.C.: Two weeks after the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) brought attention to a Transit Police incident where an explosive was forgotten on a passenger jetliner during a dog training exercise, Transit Police have admitted that the officer didn’t leave the force because of that blunder – he left because he faced discipline for deceit, neglect of duty and corrupt practice.“This Transit Police officer not only forgot an explosive on a plane, he took his police vehicle across the U.S. border three times without permission, lied in his duty records, and, worst of all, mistreated his police dog,” said Jordan Bateman, CTF B.C. Director. “That police dog had to receive veterinary care to bring it back to proper health – a fact the Transit Police has kept from the public for more than two years. What else are they hiding from the taxpayers?”