More details emerge from Coderre ticket story

The Chamberland Commission learned on Tuesday of another investigation linked to the ticket issued by a police officer to Denis Coderre in 2012, before he became mayor of Montreal.

On Monday, a document filed to the commission referred to a statement by the police officer who issued the ticket, saying Coderre told him he was going to be his future boss.

The ticket was for unpaid registration fees.

Coderre has since denied having said that, and that he would eventually testify before the commission.

On Tuesday, internal affairs investigator Normand Borduas said he learned in the summer of 2015 that his investigation report for breach of trust, as a result of the leak in the media concerning the ticket story, had not been forwarded to the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions. It wasn’t forwarded because there was a second investigation related to the ticket incident, an investigation by the Municipal Integrity Protection Squad.

The squad conducts criminal investigations to protect municipal integrity.

“There was an investigation in another division on the basis of the ticket that was given, that someone had complained about the behaviour of the (future) mayor and that there was an ongoing investigation related to this ticket” Borduas said.

But the transmission to the DCPP of Borduas’s internal investigation report had also been delayed because he had been asked to question a third police officer.

And the witness also said that there was a second ticket issued to Coderre in September 2014, this time in Laval.

Borduas reiterated his interpretation the day before that, by leaking the news to the media, police officers were trying to hurt the reputation of Coderre because of his poor working relationship with the police union.

Borduas also said the phenomenon of leaks to the media concerning police investigations seemed to be growing at the time, even becoming “alarming.”