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An Ottawa police officer shot and killed himself inside police headquarters on Elgin Street on Friday.

Police have identified the officer as Det. Thomas Roberts, 35. The robbery investigator was found dead inside the unit’s office.

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Roberts was a former RCMP officer who joined OPS in 2016. His colleagues remember him as a dedicated and energetic police officer.

In 2018, Roberts was part of a group of officers who rushed into a burning building and saved a man inside.

Roberts is survived by his wife and a nine-month-old child said, interim Chief Steve Bell said in a statement.

His family has asked for privacy.

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Flags were at half-mast at headquarters on Elgin Street Saturday.

The death occurred five years minus a day after another Ottawa officer, Staff Sgt. Kal Ghadban, a 22-year veteran, also took his own life at police headquarters.

Bell said Ghadban’s suicide prompted the service to make sure supports were in place for their officers. The OPS will continue to evaluate what its doing in the wake of Roberts’s death.