As Elias Mouawad sat before the judge deciding his fate, his lawyer argued the rookie Toronto officer’s case would normally never even see the inside of a courtroom.
Were it not for the fact that he had been folded into the explosive police corruption probe Project South, the 25-year-old constable would be where most officers who leak confidential police database information end up, Peter Brauti argued earlier this fall. He’d be at the police disciplinary tribunal.
There, Mouawad’s misdeed usually results in docked pay.
Illicit access was always a problem, diversity will magnify it.
