(THUNDER BAY, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) has laid additional charges on an OPP officer as a result of an on-going investigation that was commenced on April 14, 2014. The alleged offences occurred between June 2012 and March 2014.
Detective Constable Rory THOMPSON, a ten year member of the OPP currently assigned to the Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau -Deployed Field Unit in Thunder Bay was further charged on June 20, 2014 with eight more counts of Theft Under $5,000 contrary to the Criminal Code. Further, OPP have changed his original Fraud Under $5,000 charge to Fraud Over $5,000.
The accused has been suspended with pay as per the requirements of the Police Services Act.
He is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Thunder Bay on July 11, 2014.