In a ruling comparing a group of police officers to the golden-era TV buffoon Sgt. Schultz — the “Hogan’s Heroes” prison guard with the catchphrase, “I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!” — an Ontario Court judge has made a remarkably direct call for honesty from officers acting as witnesses in criminal trials.
“TELL THE TRUTH,” Justice Fergus O’Donnell wrote, addressing police in capital letters in a May 10 decision that details his frustration that a group of Niagara Regional Police officers seemed bafflingly unable to remember what each other was doing during an impaired driving arrest.
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