A Toronto Police Service superintendent entered a lounge with a licensed fully-stocked bar in police headquarters about three hours before he crashed his service-issued SUV into another vehicle in Pickering, Ont., and was charged with impaired driving in January 2022, CBC News has learned.
Supt. Riyaz Hussein, who headed the service’s disciplinary tribunal, pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol level over 80 mg per 100 ml of blood in connection to the crash in October, and appeared before the Toronto police disciplinary tribunal on related Police Service Act charges on Monday.
Hussein pleaded guilty to one count of discreditable conduct. As a penalty,