An Ottawa police officer is facing charges of discreditable conduct for undertaking unauthorized investigations into the possible connections between the deaths of nine children or infants and their parents’ COVID-19 vaccination statuses.
Between June 2020 and January 2022, Constable Helen Grus allegedly “self-initiated an unauthorized project” to probe those death cases, according to a notice of disciplinary hearing issued by the Ottawa Police Service’s (OPS) professional standards unit.
“You did, without lawful excuse, act in a disorderly manner or in a manner prejudicial to discipline or likely to bring discredit upon the reputation of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), in that you self-initiated an unauthorized project, wherein you accessed nine child and/or infant death cases in which you had no investigative role/responsibility, and failed to then record your involvement or findings in the files,” says the document, dated July 26….