Pubdate: Wed, 13 Apr 2016
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2016 Canoe Limited Partnership
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Tracy McLaughlin
Page: 4

FOCUS ON OFFICER'S ACTIONS, CROWN TELLS JURY

BARRIE - It doesn't matter that Wasaga Beach OPP Const. Kara Darnley 
was duped by her boss into thinking her fiance's friends were drug dealers.

What matters, the Crown says, is that she took the phony police 
information that she believed was confidential and showed it to him.

"She did it to protect herself and her boyfriend," Crown attorney 
Jason Nicol told the jury Tuesday. "The road to hell is paved with 
good intentions."

Darnley pleaded not guilty to breach of trust and obstructing justice 
for copying and sharing the documents back in the spring of 2012.

She was the subject of an undercover sting, called an "integrity 
play," that included 680 hours of surveillance.

The sting was set up because her boss was concerned about her 
integrity after she printed witness statements in a domestic case 
without authorization.

As part of the integrity play, police pointed a hidden camera in the 
detachment office on a bright yellow folder marked "confidential" 
that stated in big, black letters that her fiance's friends, 
including the man set to be best man at their wedding, were suspected 
drug dealers.

Darnley was shocked and frightened when she noticed the documents, an 
undercover female officer who befriended her testified.

"What should I do ...? I can't not tell him," she tells the officer, 
who followed Darnley around wearing a wire for three months.

On a different recording played in court, Darnley is heard demanding 
her fiance stay away from the friends because police have them under 
surveillance, and she warns him never to tell his pals.

The jury is expected to begin deliberations Wednesday.
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