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As a civilian he's outside of the departments tribunal system, but the Commissioner says that the department is looking at two different offenses with which he could possibly be charged, here's more:
Chester Williams, Commissioner Of Police
"Well, the exhibit keeper is not disciplined by the commissioner. Because he's a civilian. But I have directed an investigation, a criminal investigation to look to see at two possibilities. One would be perverting the course of justice, because the fact that these gummies were there and there was an active investigation by him disposing of them, he certainly had perverted the course of justice."
"But to say it's perverting the course of justice, it requires that there be some element of intent that he would have had to intend to pervert the course of justice. From his explanation, it doesn't seem that way.So the next option is to see whether or not he can be charged for causing harm by negligence. Because now true his negligent conduct by not following the process, he caused harm to a number of persons with negligence."
"All we need the proove was that his conduct was negligent and that would be sufficient for a conviction. So more than likely, that is the route we are going. I had discussed the matter this morning with Ms. Elrington and we are looking at it and by this evening we should be able to determine exactly what route. We're waiting for the test result from the lab, as well as a report from the hospital and statements on persons who took the item to the to the dump site and those who collected the items, because, again, we have to create a nexus between the exhibit keeper and these gummies that these persons ingested to see that it was the same gummies that he disposed of negligently that caused the harm to these individuals. So there's a lot that we need to get done to get to where we want to be. But I assure the public that we're doing all we can to ensure that whoever is responsible for this careless and reckless is held to account."
