A report by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner (OPCC) says a disgraced former Saanich police officer committed more than a dozen acts of misconduct including improper behaviour with a sex worker.
CTV Vancouver Island reports the incidents, laid out in a report, took place between 2015 and 2017.
Among the findings were that the officer misappropriated money seized from a confidential informant, threatened to reveal that informant's status to criminal associates and tried to collect money on behalf of a sex worker using threats and coercion.
The OPCC also found the cop exchanged sexual text messages and images with the same sex worker he tried to collect money for – and failed to adequately investigate reports of domestic assault, sexual assault and robbery of the sex worker.
None of the allegations resulted in criminal charges, but the OPCC upheld the findings of misconduct.
The officer was suspended as soon as Saanich police learned of the allegations and he later resigned before he could be fired.
That officer isn't the only one in hot water in the Capital Region.
The OPCC report also found that another former police officer, this one in Oak Bay, used the services of a sex trade worker in 2016.
The incident also prompted a criminal investigation, but no charges were laid against the officer, who is no longer with the force.