Two months ago, an Edmonton Police Services constable, Jack Redlick, was handed a one-year demotion
(effectively a $15,000 penalty) for beating a suspect, George
Petropolous, he had arrested. Petropolous, a middle-aged man, had been
accused of striking his mother during a dispute about money. Redlick and
his partner arrested him, and while heading to the police station,
pulled off into a high school parking lot. Redlick took Petropolous out
of the cruiser, walked him to an isolated part of the schoolground, out
of sight of the cruiser, and beat him. During the assault, Petropolous
claims that Redlick boasted that this wasn’t the first time he’d
administered a little street justice on his own initiative. The charges
against Petropolous were later stayed.
None of the above is disputed. Redlick and his partner at first
denied the whole thing, but Redlick later recanted and pleaded guilty to
discreditable conduct under the Police Act. That included his admission
to this conduct in an agreed statement of facts. (His partner is now
facing discipline for the attempted coverup.) When handing down the
sentence of the one-year demotion, the presiding officer noted that the
incident was “extremely serious,” but that there were also several
mitigating factors, including the fact that Redlick was suffering from
depression (relating to a suspect he shot and killed, but more on that
later) and that he had an exemplary service record.
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