EDMONTON -- An Alberta Mountie faces charges of bribery and breach of trust for allegedly trading information from the police database for cash.

Const. Kyle Gordon Harrison, of the Wood Buffalo detachment, is accused of providing information from the police database to an unauthorized source between November of 2014 and the end of January this year.

The RCMP did not disclose what information was released or to whom, as these details will be presented at court, Insp. Gibon Glavin said.

The type of database that was allegedly breached contains information collected during investigations conducted by the RCMP and is protected under privacy legislation, according to Glavin.

“(It’s) the contacts of people you made phone calls to, information that you gather, that kind of thing.”

Harrison was arrested on March 25 but released on a promise to appear in court on May 20. He was charged Monday with one count of bribery of officers and one count of breach of trust.

Harrison, who has been with the force for seven years, has been suspended with pay.

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