Ottawa Police Officer Faces Misconduct Charge for Probing Potential Link Between Childrens’ Death and Parents’ Vaccination Status

Ottawa Police Officer Faces Misconduct Charge for Probing Potential Link Between Childrens’ Death and Parents’ Vaccination Status
A close-up of an Ottawa Police officer’s badge in Ottawa on April 28, 2022. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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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.