20-year Wellington County OPP officer arrested

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20-year Wellington County OPP officer arrested

Postby Thomas » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:38 am

OPP say a 20-year member of their service has been arrested and faces several charges, including obstruction and breach of trust.

The internal investigation was conducted by the OPP Office of Professionalism, Respect, Inclusion and Leadership (previously known as the Professional Standards Bureau).

OPP did not provide details of the investigation but it led to the arrest of Sgt. Jamie Gillespie on Monday.

He has been with the OPP since 2000 and is currently serving at the Wellington County detachment.

Gillespie has been charged with attempting to intercept private communication, obstructing justice, breach of trust, counselling an offence that is not committed, and obstructing a peace officer.

OPP said the officer is currently suspended and will make a court appearance on Jan. 29, 2021.

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OPP officer in Wellington County charged after internal inve

Postby Thomas » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:39 am

OPP officer in Wellington County charged after internal investigation

An Ontario Provincial Police officer with the Wellington County detachment is facing a number of charges after an ongoing internal police investigation.

The 20-year veteran was arrested Tuesday by the Office of Professionalism, Respect, Inclusion and Leadership.

Charges against the officer include obstruction of justice, breach of trust, counselling an offence, obstructing a peace officer and attempting to intercept private communication.

The officer has been suspended and is scheduled to appear in a Guelph court on January 29, 2021.

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A Wellington OPP sergeant tried to help friend accused of se

Postby Thomas » Sun Aug 15, 2021 1:48 pm

A Wellington OPP sergeant tried to help friend accused of sexual assault by illegally recording fellow officers

A member of the Wellington Ontario Provincial Police let his conscience get the better of him — and it may have saved him some jail time.

In December 2020, Sgt. Jamie Gillespie was charged with obstruction of justice, obstruction of a peace officer, attempting to intercept private communications, counselling an offence that is not committed, and breach of trust.

The charges came after he admitted to recording fellow officers at his detachment without their knowledge.

According to an agreed statement of facts, read to the court by Crown Attorney Jason Nicol after Gillespie entered his plea on May 17, 2021, the officer made the recordings after a conversation with Sgt. Michael Dolderman. The two sergeants had been friends since high school, and served on specialized units together during their 20-year-plus careers with the OPP.

Both are members of the Wellington OPP Rockwood detachment.

Dolderman was suspended on Jan. 24, 2020, pending an investigation into allegations of sexual assault. He was charged on April 23 of that year, and has yet to see trial for five counts of sexual assault, and five counts breach of trust. The Gillespie hearing revealed, for the first time, that these allegations come from colleagues at the Wellington OPP.

Dolderman's wife Brenda Dolderman is also charged with obstruction, extortion, and intimidation of a justice system participant. These charges stem from messages Brenda allegedly sent to complainants and witnesses.

According to the agreed statement of facts, Gillespie said that Const. Sukhvinder Singh Toor, who faces the same charges as Gillespie, secretly recorded fellow officers talking about the allegations against Dolderman some time between January 24 and 27, 2020.

On Jan. 27, Dolderman allegedly called Gillespie to tell him he was being "set up," had proof in an audio recording, and asked for Gillespie's help to clear his name.

(Note: The agreed statement of facts presented at this hearing were agreed to by Gillespie's lawyer and the Crown, but Dolderman may refute what was said at his own trial. Toor may do the same. Unless the courts find otherwise, what Gillespie has said against both men remain allegations.)

On Jan. 27, 2020, Gillespie put his OPP-issued cellphone in record mode, and left it overnight on the sergeants desk at the Rockwood detachment in an attempt to record conversations between members of Dolderman's platoon.

Later, when he eventually came clean, Gillespie told investigators that he deleted the recordings after listening to them, and recognized his actions as "insanity."

But before that, Gillespie lied to a detective sergeant investigating the Dolderman allegations on two occasions. First, in April 2020, he said that he had never spoken to Toor about the allegations against Dolderman, never spoke about Toor's recording, didn't know anything about the investigation, and wanted nothing to do with it.

Then, on May 2, 2020, Gillespie provided another recorded statement to the investigator. In it, he added details about a conversation between Toor and himself, and noted that Brenda had messaged his wife on Facebook.

He again failed to mention his participation, and the extent of his conversations with Toor regarding the investigation.

However, Gillespie's conscience got the better of him by Christmas.

On Dec. 27, 2020, he contacted the investigator to come clean.

Gillespie told her that what he had done was "eating him alive" and that he could not "live with himself" for committing this "colossal" mistake.

He admitted to recording fellow officers without their knowledge, and to speaking with Toor about the allegations against Dolderman. He said that he had urged Toor to continue to make his own recordings, to guard the ones he had "with his life," and that he had also spoken with Dolderman about the allegations.

The next day, Gillespie was charged and given a court date of Jan. 29, 2021.

His matter wouldn't be before a judge for long.

Less than four months later, May 17, 2021, Gillespie pleaded guilty to attempting to intercept private communications. Because of the remorse he showed by confessing to investigators unprompted, the quickness with which he pleaded guilty, his exemplary record with the OPP, and his lack of any prior criminal convictions, Justice Sigurdson said he would accept a joint submission from the Crown and defence, and sentenced Gillespie to an 18-month suspended sentence.

This means Gillespie will be on probation for the duration, but will not have to spend time in jail.

But along with a 20-year exemplary service medal, a Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal, citations for bravery, and other commendations, his record will now include a criminal conviction.

The other four charges against him were dropped.

It is unclear what Gillespie's status is with the OPP at this time.

Attempts to contact Wellington OPP for details on his disciplinary hearing have not yet been returned.

Clarification, Aug. 13, 2021: This article has been updated to indicate that Gillespie made the recording after a conversation with Dolderman.

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