Police board members didn't realize promoted cop faced criminal probe, emails reveal

Members of the Ottawa police services board accepted the temporary promotion of a senior officer without realizing he was under criminal investigation, the Citizen has learned.
The revelation, which comes from email exchanges in early August between board members and obtained by the Citizen, turns on what some board members said they were led to believe by Chief Charles Bordeleau.
The emails contain conversations normally kept hidden from the public under the shield of in-camera police services