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09-27-2011, 10:36 AM
Crack-smoking cop wants job back or money (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/09/26/18742266.html)
By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency
TORONTO — A former Brantford, Ont., cop who was caught on police video smoking crack cocaine and snorting Oxycontin in his cruiser is fighting to get his job back or secure a financial settlement from the service.
Jeffrey Servos was a Brantford cop for six years. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to one count of possessing cocaine and was also hit with 16 Police Services Act charges.
He resigned from the force that year after a series of plea bargains rather than serve three months in jail. The police act charges were withdrawn after he resigned.
In March, Servos filed a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging "discrimination in employment on the basis of disability."
Servos claims a doctor told him "his employer (Brantford police) had failed in its duty to accommodate his drug-related disability" and there may be grounds for getting his job back or a financial settlement.
Servos appeared before the tribunal in Toronto on Sept. 16 to testify and his case was adjourned. No date has been set for the half-day hearing that was ordered.
The tribunal hearing was told Servos had notified his superiors of his drug problem and was sent for rehabilitation three times.
In an unprecedented move, his superiors placed a pinhole camera in his cruiser and a GPS on his personal vehicle to monitor his movements to determine if he was drug-free.
The surveillance video showed Servos snorting a prescription painkiller and smoking crack cocaine in his cruiser while on duty in June 2007.
Servos told an Ontario court he used cocaine while on duty one night in May 2007. That night he fired four rounds into a van that police cruisers had boxed in.
Two of the shots went through the van's windshield and one of them hit a 15-year-old who was a passenger in the van. The girl was treated for a gunshot wound to her left arm.
The province's Special Investigation's Unit didn't charge him for the shooting.
The shooting took place just a day after police received a tip about an officer named Jeff buying painkillers. Police said there were calls from other drug dealers who claimed a cop robbed them.
A urine test revealed Servos had also been taking methadone and ephedrine — a nasal congestion medication that can also be used as a stimulant or weight loss aid.
Oxycontin is a prescription painkiller used for medium to severe pain.
Brantford police refused to comment on the case Monday because of ongoing litigation.
Brantford is located about 100 km southwest of Toronto.
By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency
TORONTO — A former Brantford, Ont., cop who was caught on police video smoking crack cocaine and snorting Oxycontin in his cruiser is fighting to get his job back or secure a financial settlement from the service.
Jeffrey Servos was a Brantford cop for six years. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to one count of possessing cocaine and was also hit with 16 Police Services Act charges.
He resigned from the force that year after a series of plea bargains rather than serve three months in jail. The police act charges were withdrawn after he resigned.
In March, Servos filed a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging "discrimination in employment on the basis of disability."
Servos claims a doctor told him "his employer (Brantford police) had failed in its duty to accommodate his drug-related disability" and there may be grounds for getting his job back or a financial settlement.
Servos appeared before the tribunal in Toronto on Sept. 16 to testify and his case was adjourned. No date has been set for the half-day hearing that was ordered.
The tribunal hearing was told Servos had notified his superiors of his drug problem and was sent for rehabilitation three times.
In an unprecedented move, his superiors placed a pinhole camera in his cruiser and a GPS on his personal vehicle to monitor his movements to determine if he was drug-free.
The surveillance video showed Servos snorting a prescription painkiller and smoking crack cocaine in his cruiser while on duty in June 2007.
Servos told an Ontario court he used cocaine while on duty one night in May 2007. That night he fired four rounds into a van that police cruisers had boxed in.
Two of the shots went through the van's windshield and one of them hit a 15-year-old who was a passenger in the van. The girl was treated for a gunshot wound to her left arm.
The province's Special Investigation's Unit didn't charge him for the shooting.
The shooting took place just a day after police received a tip about an officer named Jeff buying painkillers. Police said there were calls from other drug dealers who claimed a cop robbed them.
A urine test revealed Servos had also been taking methadone and ephedrine — a nasal congestion medication that can also be used as a stimulant or weight loss aid.
Oxycontin is a prescription painkiller used for medium to severe pain.
Brantford police refused to comment on the case Monday because of ongoing litigation.
Brantford is located about 100 km southwest of Toronto.