A Toronto traffic officer has told a police tribunal that he smelled alcohol on the breath of a man who had just crashed his truck, but missed the window to administer a breathalyzer test after a high-ranking Toronto police officer — the driver’s aunt — removed him from the collision scene.
“Straight up and blunt and honest with you: I’m concerned that you’ve been drinking,” Const. Michael Clarke can be heard telling Insp. Joyce Schertzer’s nephew in body-worn camera footage from May 2022, which was played during a police tribunal hearing Thursday.