Ex-CFL player turned cop quits force over misconduct allegations
A former CFL player turned Ottawa police officer has pre-emptively resigned from the force that was after his badge for allegedly having sex with multiple women while on duty, this newspaper has learned.
According to a “general order” dated June 13, sent by Chief Charles Bordeleau to all Ottawa police officers, Const. Jason Mallett “has resigned from the OPS.” Mallett had been suspended with pay for nearly four years.
“Therefore, his suspension is concluded effective immediately.”
The former CFL player was hired by the Ottawa Police Service in 2005 and was featured often on recruitment posters and force promotional materials.
However, Mallett didn’t turn out to be a star recruit. He was charged criminally in 2014, which led to his suspension as an officer, then convicted of disciplinary charges in 2015. He also faced 15 additional misconduct charges, laid in 2017, that had yet to be tried.
Most recently, Mallett was charged with five counts of insubordination, four counts of deceit, three counts of neglect of duty, two counts of corrupt practice and one count of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act.
The laundry list of charges against him stemmed from a series of incidents between 2013-17.
They suggest an alleged pattern of Mallett using the police service and police work for his own personal advantage, usually having to do with women and sex.
Internal affairs investigators alleged that Mallett used his position as an officer to “approach, intercept or accost” a woman.
Police separately allege that he used his job and time as an officer to hit on a woman.
Investigators also believed Mallett created fake calls for service so that he could have sex with a woman while he was on duty and supposedly responding to the fake calls.
Mallett allegedly left his post as an officer while he was on duty multiple times to “engage in personal encounters” with “various female members of the public.”
Police allege that he used his work email to both ask for and send nude pictures and “sexually explicit emails.”
He was also charged with falsifying police records by saying he was following up on a call for service that ended days before. The allegedly fake followup accounted for more than three hours of his onduty time.
In May 2016, Mallett pleaded guilty to the crime of mischief. A stalking charge of criminal harassment against him was dismissed.
Criminal court heard at the time that Mallett was an “award-winning ” school resource officer and that he was once publicly praised by Bordeleau. He was given a conditional discharge for the mischief offence and will have no lasting criminal record after successful completion of probation and a counselling program.
Now that he’s resigned, the outstanding disciplinary charges against him, which only apply while he remains a police officer, will no longer be tried.
Reached through his union, Mallett declined to comment.
Mallett was a defensive back who played in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Eskimos.