Three Saskatoon police officers were caught snooping on nine people’s private information from investigation records for personal reasons, according to the Saskatchewan privacy commissioner.
In a report released this month, the province’s privacy watchdog says the breach came to light after a superintendent at the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) requested an audit in October, 2023 to determine if anyone had inappropriately accessed a specific investigation file.
“The audit revealed that one sworn member of the SPS (Sworn Member A) had accessed the personal information of five individuals inappropriately,” commissioner Ron Kruzeniski writes.
“The audit also revealed that Sworn Member A had queried certain addresses as well as four individuals linked to those particular addresses.”
This sworn member had also accessed the database using the credentials of another officer who was away from their desk at the time, even printing off some of the ill-gotten private information, Kruzeniski says.