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Tuesday’s guilty pleas were the result of an unrelated internal investigation that was prompted by a public complaint.

On Valentine’s Day 2013, an Orléans school principal summoned Mallett, who was a school resource officer at the time. The principal had found one joint on each of two students and turned the drugs over to the officer.

Not only did Mallett fail to complete a report on seizing the drugs, but he didn’t turn the drugs over as evidence. A review of his duty notebook found that no notes were made for that entire shift. The joints, which ought to have been turned in to be destroyed, remain unaccounted for.

We have no way of knowing what happened to these narcotics

“We have no way of knowing what happened to these narcotics,” prosecutor Louise Morel told the hearing.

Mallett took an oath of duty, she said, and the public would be appalled to know what he’d done.

In September 2014, Mallett unlawfully arrested a truant 14-year-old student. The student had skipped classes after the lunch break and Mallett found him and his friends in a bedroom in the student’s grandmother’s house with 3.5 grams of marijuana. The officer had no reasonable grounds to go into the home without permission from the homeowner.

Once he’d arrested the child, Mallett told the cellblock sergeant that he had suspicion that the teen had breached earlier conditions and had been in possession of marijuana.

Const. Mallett intentionally and knowingly misled the cellblock sergeant

Nothing in the police database, which Mallett had accessed, suggested a breach. The sergeant later told internal affairs investigators that the simple possession charge alone wouldn’t have been enough for him to approve putting a child in the cellblock. The lone possession charge was ultimately withdrawn by the Crown.