Const. George Duke facing assault charge after September crash

Const. George Duke, 52, was charged with assault, uttering threats to cause bodily harm and forcible confinement and was released from custody on a promise to appear in Brockville court in late January.

He remains suspended from duty with pay.

In October, Duke was charged with theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, breach of trust, unlawful possession of a restricted firearm, unsafe storage of a firearm, unsafe storage of ammunition, possession of a firearm without a licence and possession of schedule two substance.

It came after an 18-month OPP internal investigation that also led to charges against two other officers at the Leeds County detachment.

Duke has been an OPP officer for 20 years.

 

 This is actually a fascinating story. You have to understand ,a  friend of mine , whom we shall call "Wireless Toaster" has explained to me that you can't put cops in jail , their lives would be in danger from their fellow inmates, if you intend to kill someone you must officially assign them the death penalty. 

This legal loop hole, apparently , has kept every Canadian cop out of jail since the beginning of time. 

It will be interesting to see if this George Duke goes to jail (proving Wireless Toaster wrong) or if he gets off with just being fired, demonstrating a serious hole in our justice system, and we probably need to build a jail just for corrupt cops really quick before they figure out they're allowed to kill us normal civilians and get away with it. 

I've actually been waiting to bring this issue up for a while ...