A Toronto Police civilian employee is facing 22 charges, including personation, after an investigation into files which were allegedly accessed illicitly. Between February and September 2014, police allege a female clerk in the Forensic Identification Service conducted unauthorized queries of police databases. They said these searches were not for “official police business.”On Wednesday, the TPS Profession Standards unit charged Erin Maranan, 28, of Thornhill with 20 counts of breach of trust, perjury and personation. According to the TPS website, civilian clerks hired into the Forensics Identification Services are to perform roles such as fingerprint technician or photo imaging technician. Duties include “processing, searching, comparing and identifying crime-scene identification and criminal record purposes,” providing professional photographic and digital imaging services to all units, and maintaining section files.

Source: thestar October 19, 2016 18:56 UTC