A local Wood Buffalo RCMP officer is facing criminal charges after allegedly selling police investigation information. According to reports by the RCMP on March 25, 2015 Cst. Kyle Gordon Harrison was placed under arrest when allegations were made that Harrison took money in exchange for providing information from the official police database to an unknown individual. Bribery and breach of trust are two of the charges that may stick against the officer if he is found guilty of providing the information and taking money for this. According to Insp. Gibson Glavin the source’s identity and the time of the alleged incidents can not be released yet because the case has not been presented to trial at this early date, however Glavin did say that there was more than one occurrence suspected over an unspecified period of time.

According to Wood Buffalo RCMP Insp. Gibson Glavin “We’re not going to be able to release the specific instance that brought this to our attention because that’s going to form a significant part of the evidence at trial.” he said. The database which was breached by the officer facing criminal charges contains data on information collected during the course of investigations that the RCMP conducted, and privacy legislation protects the information that was accessed and given out by the officer who is charged. “We recognize that the only way that police can properly do our business is if the public has confidence in us and trusts us, so getting on these things quickly is partly how we do that. This member of the RCMP will have an opportunity to have this heard at court, and there’ll be a decision as to whether that’s proved or not at that point.”