Two Ontario cops facing charges resign

Mike Whitehouse, QMI Agency

SUDBURY, Ont. — Two police officers facing a battery of misconduct charges resigned this week following a week of testimony at their disciplinary hearing.
David Treitz, who had achieved the rank of staff sergent, was facing 10 charges of discredible conduct, two charges of corrupt practice and one charge each of insubordination and neglect of duty, all under the Ontario Police Services Act.
Shelley Roy, a constable, was facing 11 counts of misconduct.
Treitz and Roy are married.
The charges against both were laid in June, but at a hearing held over the past two weeks, two more charges were read into the record against each, Greater Sudbury Police Chief Frank Elsner said.
Following that, "there was a mutual resolution, and as part of that, they have tendered their resignations," Elsner said.
Among the discreditable conduct charges were a number of allegations Treitz "engaged in oppressive or tyrannical conduct toward" officers of an inferior rank, the tribunal heard in June. He was accused of withholding or suppressing complaints made against another member of the police service on two occasions.
He was also accused of using the police records system for his own purposes. It's alleged that one of those queries was for information about an Ontario Provincial Police investigation into his own conduct.
The charges are for alleged acts that took place between March 2007 and January 2010.
Roy was charged with seven counts of discreditable conduct, two counts of insubordination and one count each of corrupt practice and neglect of duty.
Treitz was suspended on Jan. 25, 2010. Roy was suspended Feb. 16, 2010. Both were suspended with pay.
Having resigned from the police service, the two officers are no longer subject to the Ontario Police Services Act, so the charges are effectively dropped, Elsner said.