Police officer pleads guilty to illegally transferring weapon

By Sue Yanagisawa
A 40-year-old Ottawa Police officer who compounded a co-worker’s bad judgment in the handling of his service weapon and ended up facing a criminal charge in Kingston has been sanctioned in court, but he will not be burdened with a criminal record.
Const. Ahmad W. Hafizi pleaded guilty in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice to illegally transferring a restricted weapon, a fellow officer’s gun, to an unauthorized third party.
Justice Allan Letourneau, adopting t