"Police allege fellow officers accepted bribes, aided drug traffickers, leaked personal information to criminals who then carried out shootings and helped members of organized crime in a plot to murder a corrections officer. No corner of society is immune from the reach of organized crime, but when organized crime penetrates the Toronto police service, the harm goes far beyond the immediate wrongdoing, said Chief Myron Demkiw of the deeply disappointing allegations."
"Among the current and former police officers charged are a father and son, both of whom are accused of leaking information to criminals. This is a deeply disappointing and sad day for policing, the York regional police chief, Jim MacSween, told reporters. More than 400 officers, including from York, Toronto and the Ontario provincial police, have been involved in the Project South investigation."
At least eight current and former Toronto police officers were arrested after an investigation exposed organized crime's infiltration of the municipal police service. Allegations include accepting bribes, aiding drug traffickers, leaking personal and private information to criminals who then carried out shootings, and assisting organized crime in a plot to murder a corrections officer. A father-and-son pair are among the accused. The probe began in June 2025 after an attempted murder of a corrections officer and involved more than 400 officers from York, Toronto and the Ontario Provincial Police. Surveillance footage showed three armed, masked men ramming a police cruiser at the officer's home.
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