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Const. Christian Nungisa woke up on a May 2016 morning, disoriented, resting outside against a fence in Kingston. He didn’t know how he got there. He had blacked out after a night of heavy drinking.

Where was his gun?

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He was off-duty and in Kingston for the weekend to party with friends, but had tossed his Glock in the back of his trunk.

Where was his car?

His actions that morning would start a chain reaction that would lead to two Ottawa police officers’ conspiring to lie to their superiors and colleagues after Nungisa reported his car and police gun stolen and Const. Ahmad Hafizi — who’d been with Nungisa that weekend — carted the weapon around unsecured before leaving it with a civilian.

The conduct would be an “embarrassment,” to the police force, according to the hearing officer who demoted both of them.

Recently, in separate police disciplinary hearings, both officers pleaded guilty to two counts of discreditable conduct and one count of insubordination under the Police Services Act.