Regina cop fired after pleading guilty to assaulting teen will keep his corporal job
A fired Regina Police Service corporal who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 13-year-old boy has successfully appealed his dismissal from the force.
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Posted: Mar 12, 2021 6:55 AM CT | Last Updated: March 12
Cpl. Colin Magee has won his job back after being dismissed by the Regina police chief in 2020.(CBC)
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“It is with some difficulty that I must conclude that Chief Bray has not established, on a balance of probabilities, that Corporal Magee’s conduct was a serious departure from the expected standards and behaviours of a police officer and a significant departure from the acceptable standards of policing,” independent hearing officer Ronni Nordal said in her written decision released on Wednesday.
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Bray testified during a January hearing that he fired Magee for exhibiting a pattern of behaviour that involved physical altercations and aggression when his authority was challenged. Magee faced three assault charges, resulting in one guilty plea, an acquittal and a stay of proceedings.
Regina Police Service Cpl. Colin Magee (dark suit). (File photo courtesy of Global News)
A fired Regina police corporal who previously pleaded guilty to assaulting a 13-year-old boy has successfully appealed his dismissal.
Colin Magee was fired from the Regina Police Service last year, having been deemed unfit for police service by Chief Evan Bray.
In a decision issued Tuesday, hearing officer Ronni Nordal wrote Bray based his case on three separate incidents.
According to a notice of dismissal, the first happened in 2016 when Magee took a possible auto theft suspect to the ground for refusing to present identification.
Magee was charged with assault the next year and placed on administrative duty. After the Crown referred the charges to alternative measures, Magee returned to active duty in 2018 in the detention area.
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Despite having chosen to fire Colin Magee last year, Chief Evan Bray says he accepts a hearing officer’s decision to reinstate the corporal, and will assist with Magee’s transition back to police duties.
“I went into the process resolved in my decision that I had made, but also willing to accept whatever the outcome was that the hearing officer decided on,” said Bray during a phone interview on Thursday.
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