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Cop, dad convicted of hunting offences
Topic Started: Apr 5 2011, 07:18 PM (719 Views)
Bellero
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By QMI Agency

Last Updated: April 5, 2011 9:20am

Brockville - An OPP detective and his father have both been convicted of hunting offences.

The Athens-area father and son were fined a total of $1,500 for numerous violations of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.

Justice of the Peace Ernest Parsons heard in a a Brockville court on March 23 that Ronald Nowlan shot and killed a doe on private land November 1, 2010 in Athens Township. He then tagged the deer with a seal from a different Wildlife Management Unit.

Nowlan was fined $700, including $300 for hunting while trespassing, $200 for transporting unlawfully killed wildlife and $200 for unlawfully attaching a seal to an antlerless deer.

Brent Nowlan, who was on the property with his father at the time of the incident and helped transport the deer, was fined $800, including $400 for hunting while trespassing and $400 for transporting unlawfully killed wildlife.

The younger Nowlan, who is a detective-constable with the Brockville detachment of the Leeds County OPP, faced other hunting-related charges last fall stemming from an incident in which a firearm was discharged from a vehicle in Rideau Lake Township. He was charged November 2, 2010 with unlawfully discharging a firearm from a public right of way.
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good to hear, :goodpost:
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I have heard a lot of very disturbing stories about men and blue and hunting violations. Certainly some very honorable and respectable hunters are cops but you do have some bad apples in every bunch. I think that these clowns should loose their jobs, anyone who is willing to break laws shouldn't be enforcing them.
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I concer with your statement Rene. Trust becomes an issue forsure amoung other things. Like every profession there are going to be bad apples and this one is no different.
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Jeez eh!

my mothers side is from brockville a good place :)
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Over here on the Quebec side this happens often with both cops and game wardens,there have been cops hunting within city limits for years around here and no one does anything about it,also the game wardens have been breaking laws,I`ve witnessed it but who do you complain to,and how would they retaliate.There are also many game wardens with in the province that trap and will check there traps while on duty and using gov.sleds and gas.
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It is unfortunate, but it seems to be human nature. No matter what a person's profession, they will try to bend or sometimes break the rules to their advantage. When I worked in a welding shop guys spent company time working on personal projects. The only difference from that and a CO checking his traps while working is who's signing the pay-cheque.

That being said, I'm about to contradict myself. I believe that Peace officers & conservation authorities need to measure up to a higher standard. As the men trained, tested, and trusted to enforce our laws, they should be held as examples for the public. As examples, when they knowingly and maliciously break the laws, their punishments should be more severe than for the "average Joe."

I think that in this case the fines are apropriate for the offence, but the detective should definitely be dismissed from the police force, with no option of any further government work.

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I was ATVing with a guy on Monday that knows the farmer that owns the property this took place. Apparently the cop tried to swwep it under the rug and convince the farmer it was no big deal. The farmer stood up to him. The copper at one pointwent to pick up the empty casing and the farmer steped on it and said, "just what do you think your gonna do with that, thats evidence and it will stay there untill the co gets here.
Good for him. This is not the first incident this cop has been involved in like this. It sounds very much like he is loosing his job as well.
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It sounds very much like he is loosing his job as well.

And rightfully so.

I wonder if they suspended him with pay until he got to court and found guilty.
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