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Jarett Gelowitz, the former constable who was fired from the Saskatoon Police Service amid criminal charges he was ultimately cleared of, is set to be welcomed back to the police service on Monday, sources have confirmed to CBC News.

Gelowitz and the Saskatoon Police Service reached a draft agreement calling for his resinstatement on Saturday, two days before the Police Act hearing set to hear Gelowitz's appeal of his August 2018 firing.

Gelowitz, 32, was dismissed last summer by Chief Troy Cooper as Gelowitz faced three criminal charges for on-duty assaults.

The police service said at the time that Gelowitz was not fit for duty and went on to describe three alleged assaults between November 2016 and April 2017. He had been on the force for 11 years.

"Although the matters of the criminal code charges have yet to be completed through the judicial process, the decision to dismiss was made based on maintaining public trust," said a statement issued at the time of Gelowitz's firing.

No convictions

This year saw all three charges resolved.

The first two charges were withdrawn and Gelowtiz was acquitted last month of the third charge after a trial judge said Gelowitz had been reasonable in applying force to a suspect who refused to surrender after a high-speed chase.

That final decision prompted Gelowitz's supporters, including a large family group attending court, to say the police service had rushed to judgment.

According to the sources, the draft agreement calling for Gelowitz's reinstatement is set to be announced at the Police Act hearing act scheduled for Monday morning in Saskatoon. The provincially-appointed hearing officer, Jay Watson, must approve the agreement.

The hearing, which is technically still scheduled to last two weeks but may end quickly if the agreement is consented to, was held up by the court process on Gelowitz's criminal charges. It was to be the first Police Act hearing in 12 years to deal with a Saskatoon officer fired for either "incompetence or unsuitability," according to section 60 of Saskatchewan's Police Act.

After Gelowitz's acquittal last month, Cooper said in a statement that "the decision to dismiss [Gelowitz] was based on unsuitability for service and not based on criminal proceedings."

Cooper added that there remained matters under the Police Act that needed to be dealt with during the hearing.

Saskatoon Police Chief Troy Cooper said Gelowitz was not fired because of the criminal charges, but for 'unsuitability for service.' (Chanss Lagaden/CBC)

Union opposed firing

Dean Pringle, the president of the Saskatoon Police Association, previously told CBC News that after the alleged assaults, Gelowitz was initially taken off the street and reassigned to a front desk position.

Pringle said Gelowitz received three internal complaints at that time, and that the complaints "could be anything from being discourteous to making a mistake on a report."

Pringle said Gelowtiz should never have been fired. Instead, the association felt Gelowitz should have been suspended with pay pending the outcome of his hearing.

Should Monday's hearing proceed without an agreement, "the burden of proof lies with" Chief Cooper, according to the act. Firing Gelowitz was one of Cooper's first major decisions after he became police chief in the spring of 2018.

The Police Act hearing is scheduled to begin Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Park Town hotel.