Ex-CN police officer fined after ‘two-hand texting’ incident
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BRANDON — A judge fined a former CN police officer $1,400 and gave him a three-month driving prohibition after he was caught “two-hand texting” while driving on duty.
“You were wearing a uniform on this occasion, and you were in a marked vehicle, and with that vehicle and that uniform came a public trust, which was broken on this occasion,” Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta told Joram Jardine in Brandon provincial court on Monday.
Jardine, a 44-year-old former Mountie, pleaded guilty to a single count of dangerous driving.
Lawyers jointly recommended a fine in the range of $1,200 to $1,500. Jardine’s lawyer did not agree with the prosecutor’s recommendation of a one-year driving prohibition.
On Nov. 6, 2024, a man who was driving east on Highway 25 from Rivers called 911 at around 9:43 a.m. and said he saw what he believed was an RCMP cruiser that was “slow going,” swerving and eventually speeding up and partially crossing the centre line, according to an agreed statement of facts.
Prosecutor Ryan Amy said it was later determined the vehicle was a CN Rail police vehicle, which Jardine had been driving. He was arrested at his home later that morning.
CN Police Service turned over Jardine’s body-camera footage to RCMP. The footage, which begins at 7:38 a.m., shows the man driving with a cellphone in one hand and a coffee cup in the other.
— Brandon Sun