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The city’s traffic safety department said the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires removed the peace officer from her role with the city for other reasons, but didn’t provide specific details.

Parks and roads branch manager Brian Simpson said processes were put in place following the complaint made by Schultz to watch the peace officer and ensure she was completing her job properly.

Drivers who were nabbed for speeding by the officer on Oct. 17 had their tickets rejected and never mailed out, Simpson said in a statement Monday afternoon. The officer continued to work photo radar shifts until her termination Dec. 27 and those tickets remain valid.

After being told a photo radar operator monitoring a school zone in the city’s west end appeared to be asleep on the job, Schultz said he went to the site and watched the vehicle for several minutes without any movement from the officer. He then approached the vehicle while taking a video of the officer before knocking on the vehicle’s window.

The peace officer denied sleeping on the job during the city’s investigation, but said she may have been “zoned out” with her eyes open as she was being filmed.

“Upon completion of the investigation, the peace officer was found to be failing to make adequate observations relating to the movement of traffic at their enforcement site,” Simpson said in the statement.

Photo radar officers are expected to be actively monitoring traffic and their equipment throughout the entire shift to ensure the accuracy of enforcement infractions, Simpson said.

Hearing about the issue, Mayor Don Iveson said he is pleased with how the city handled the case by voiding the officer’s tickets on the day in question.

“If there’s an issue of fairness in the particular enforcement, then you fix that particular issue,” he told reporters Monday. “I think that’s just and that’s right in this case.”

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