An officer has been charged with further offences following an investigation in the state\u2019s north.
\nIn November last year, an off-duty probationary constable attached to the Northern Region was charged following an alleged traffic-related incident.
\nFollowing further inquiries, the 39-year-old man was charged today (Wednesday 12 January 2022) with not keep firearm safely\u2013not pistol\/prohibited firearm and handle\/use firearm under the influence of alcohol\/drug.
\nHe is due to appear before Toronto Local Court on Tuesday 18 January 2022.
\nThe officer\u2019s duty status is currently under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An officer has been charged with further offences following an investigation in the state\u2019s north. In November last year, an off-duty probationary constable attached to the Northern Region was charged following an alleged traffic-related incident. Following further inquiries, the 39-year-old man was charged today (Wednesday 12 January 2022) with not keep firearm safely\u2013not pistol\/prohibited firearm … Continue reading “Officer charged – Northern Region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}