Cornwall police officer charged with impaired driving

Source:Standard Freeholder
Posted By Michael Peeling
Updated 21 hours ago

mpeeling@standard-freeholder.com

CORNWALL - The OPP have charged a city police detective with impaired driving.

Provincial officers were responding to a call on Feb. 1 around 6 p.m. in South Stormont when a man got out of a car on the side of County Road 15.

He flagged down the officers.

The officers pulled over to investigate and found the woman driving was operating the vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

OPP Const. Pete Robertson said the officers had been dispatched to deal with a call involving the vehicle the woman was driving, but he couldn't elaborate on the nature of the call because of the ongoing investigation.

Emma Wilson-King, 45, of South Stormont was charged with impaired driving and exceeding 80 milligrams blood alcohol content per 100 millilitres.

Wilson-King is a detective constable with the Cornwall Community Police Service.

According to Staff Sgt. Garry Derochie of the police service's professional standards bureau, Wilson-King is currently "on personal leave."

Until the charges against the detective are dealt with in the courts, Wilson-King will be assigned to a desk job to perform administrative duties when she returns to work.

In the meantime, Derochie said Chief of Police Dan Parkinson will file an automatic "chief's complaint" under the Police Services Act against Wilson-King.
If convicted of impaired driving, the officer could be subject to a Police Services Act hearing for serious misconduct.

Wilson-King is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.

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