The Durham force confirmed Wednesday that it had suspended Const. Ram Harricharan with pay pending the outcome of two Criminal Code charges that Toronto police laid against him this month.
Toronto police charged Harricharan, 38, with impaired care or control of a motor vehicle and having care or control while his alcohol-blood concentration level exceeded 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.
Police charged Harricharanm, who has 13 years of police experience, on Oct. 3 but it could not provide any other details regarding the incident in suburban Scarborough.
Other off-duty Durham officers have faced driving-related charges in the last few years including a detective who smashed his vehicle into the front porch of a house in Courtice in March. Another officer drove his car in the ditch after a hockey game in Whitby last December.
Durham police charged both officers with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. In the latter ditch incident, the Crown dropped the charge of leaving the scene and reduced the count of careless driving to making an improper turn which resulted in a fine of $110.
The force also charged another off-duty constable with two counts of impaired driving in October 2012 after he attended a police memorial golf tournament in Ajax and then collided with another vehicle.
Cambridge times
Clearly setting the example here for the public. What is this the 5th or 6th Durham Police officer charged with impaired driving in the last year? Birds of the same feather flock together.
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