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A former CFL player and current Ottawa police officer, who is widely held as an ambassador for the service, has been charged by his own force with stalking a woman.

Const. Jason Mallett, 42, was arrested on Oct. 10 and charged with one count of criminal harassment. The Ottawa Police Service was continuing to investigate.

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In a media release, police said they would not be providing further information since the case is now before the courts.

Mallett was hired by the service in 2005 after playing in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Eskimos. Prior to his CFL career, Mallett, who was raised in Orléans, played collegiate football for Carleton University.

In 2010, Mallett was part of a group that was given an award for innovation in human resources for helping to develop the force’s tenure program. At the time, the awards body called the program “a transparent process to systematically move and deploy the Ottawa Police Service’s most important resources, its people.”