OUT & OUT POLICE CORRUPTION

Wow! Now this is even beyond blatant. The Halton Police Chief has stated that charges are pending against a uniformed police officer after an investigation into their police drug "vault" is concluded. Apparently 36 drug samples out of 2,185 in lock-up have been tampered with. Clearly the ramifications are huge not only for the accused in all 36 cases but possibly for many more. The whole premise of evidence in police custody is that there is a chain of custody and that evidence simply is not tampered with much less handled by anyone other than those strictly authorized to do so and they must sign for that evidence if they are re-examining it. This is a huge black eye to the professionalism and integrity of this particular police force. The article in today's Waterloo Region Record is titled "Fears over drug vault jolt police, lawyers." However there appears to be a slightly different title and story on-line right now.