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A second Ottawa police officer has been suspended from duty after a drunken weekend in Kingston prompted a probe into how this city’s officers handled a force-issued firearm.

Const. Ahmed Hafizi, an officer since 2007, was suspended with pay on Monday. His suspension comes after fellow officer Const. Christian Nungisa was suspended in May after he reported his own gun stolen while in Kingston for a weekend. Nungisa reported his personal vehicle with his force-issued gun inside of it — believed to have been stored there after a training exercise — stolen from his hotel parking lot in Kingston. Police believe Nungisa later found his car but then failed to notify Kingston police that the car had not been stolen.

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Kingston police later spotted what they believed to be Nungisa’s stolen vehicle with Nungisa inside it.

Upon returning to Ottawa, police believe, Nungisa’s firearm was stored with a friend rather than being returned to his locker. A senior officer attempted to verify that Nungisa had his gun, but was unable to immediately do so.

Police believe Hafizi was with Nungisa in Kingston and complicit in the events that unfolded, prompting his suspension.

Hafizi, a former prison guard, was the force’s first Afghan-Canadian officer, according to a Citizen story from 2007. He emigrated from Afghanistan with his parents and five siblings in 1990.

Hafizi bears the same name as his nephew Ahmed Hafizi, who was convicted in March of killing Navid Niran in a 2012 ByWard Market fight.

No charges have yet been laid against either officer.

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