Three Toronto Police Service radios have been recovered as part of a corruption probe of the towing industry, along with additional radios and parts that are believed to have been stolen from other forces
The “chasing” business is rife with fraud, and it is an open secret that peripheral businesses such as body shops, rental-car agencies and physiotherapy clinics are willing to pay tow-truck drivers kickbacks to bring them business. In some cases, entire crashes are being staged.
In early May, when police pulled over a tow-truck driver for dangerous driving on Highway 400, they discovered that he had an official TPS radio – one with the same identification number as another radio in use by police. The radio had been stolen and cloned, with the cloned radio then returned to the police station in the original’s place – a swap that police allege was done by Constable Ronald Joseph.
Halton Regional Police, too, said that they are “fully aware of what occurred with TPS and the ongoing investigation, and after hearing the news began moving forward with an immediate audit.”Story continues below advertisement The Ontario Provincial Police service’s radios are not encrypted, so tow-truck drivers are already able to listen to their broadcasts, spokesperson Sergeant Kerry Schmidt said.
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