BURSTA Surrey RCMP officer has been cleared in a conduct investigation that began after he allegedly threatened his girlfriend, when his wife unexpectedly turned up while they were together.
In a decision dated to Aug. 8, 2025, the RCMP conduct board found that allegations of dangerous operation of a vehicle and threats had not been proven against the serving constable.
Although the conduct board found the allegations unsubstantiated, the ruling acknowledged that they came out of an affair the constable had with a civilian employee, who was the complainant. Her identity was protected and has not been released, and she is referred to as the complainant in the conduct board ruling.
The two became friendly while working in Surrey, and when the woman told him she also wanted to become an RCMP officer, the constable offered to help.
They began a relationship that lasted a year and a half, until on Aug. 12, 2021, the officer was involved in an on-duty crash that sent him to the hospital.
The officer’s then-girlfriend worked there and checked his medical records, and discovered he was married, because his wife was listed as his next of kin.
She then called the officer’s wife and told her about the affair.
He did not immediately become aware that his wife knew or that the two had been communicating.
There are differing accounts of what happened next, but on the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2021, the officer arranged to meet the complainant at the Langley Events Centre parking lot.
Someone – either the complainant or another person – tipped off his wife that the two were meeting, and she also headed to the LEC meetup.
The officer and the complainant were in his pickup truck when his wife arrived in her car. He drove off, through the school zone past the nearby middle school and high school.
According to the complainant, he was driving erratically and at high speed. He stopped about a kilometre away and told the woman to get out of the truck. She started walking back to her car.
On his way back to meet his wife, he passed the complainant and spoke to her through his truck window.
She said the officer threatened her, including telling her to watch her back, and saying “Any chance you had to be a police officer; I will make sure you are never going to be a police officer.”
He also allegedly threatened to ruin her reputation, and mentioned nude and intimate photos he had of her.
According to the officer, he confronted her over allegedly setting him up, and he admitted to calling her a bitch. But he denied threatening her. He also denied driving erratically, though he admitted crossing the double-yellow line to pass cars in a school zone.
The conduct board ruling, written by member Kevin L. Harrison, found that the allegations had not been proven, saying that the complainant “was neither credible nor was her evidence reliable for the most part.”
He took issue with numerous aspects, including contradictions between her initial statements and her testimony during the conduct hearing. There were also discrepancies between how she described the parking lot encounter, and video surveillance that didn’t show the officer’s truck speeding way.
On the other hand, he found the officer to be a “credible witness.”
The same issue has gone before the courts.
The officer was charged with uttering threats, but was never tried. Instead he opted for an alternative measures program under the Criminal Code – as part of that, he accepted responsibility for the acts he was alleged to have committed.
The conduct board ruling found in the officer’s favour, but Harrison gave him a mild warning.
“Although I have found that neither allegation was established, I note that this matter was entirely of the subject member’s own making. His actions affected numerous people. Likely more than the subject member realizes. I hope that he has learned from this experience, and I trust that he will not repeat similar behaviour during the remainder of his RCMP career.”