TORONTO INTELLIGENCE COP HEARING NOW MADE PUBLIC.

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TORONTO - They are some of the toughest cops in the Toronto Police Service, with decades of experience on the job.They work on this city’s most covert crimes: gangs and guns and terrorist threats.Yet according to an investigator with internal affairs, many of these officers broke down in tears when interviewed about the “poisoned work environment” they endured in the intelligence unit under the command of Staff Insp. Steve Izzett.

Among them was the female subordinate officer who says she had to withstand more than a year of sexual harassment by her boss because he refused to take no for an answer.Instead, she told investigators, Izzett showered her with gifts and kept trying to kiss and hug her. And when she lied and said she was gay to deflect his advances, the married father insisted she’d “awakened the giant within” him and they were meant for each other.

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