A Toronto police officer has been charged with assault after a suspect was Tasered three times and kicked during an arrest in October.

Const. Mehrdad Mahmodian, 51, arrested the suspect after receiving reports of a break and enter near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West around 12:50 a.m. on Oct. 7.

When police arrived, three suspects believed to be connected with the break-in were found in a ride-share vehicle. Police chased the suspects who fled on foot.

After a short chase, one of the suspects surrendered and was handcuffed by Mahmodian, an officer with 53 Division, police said.

Police said as the suspect was being handcuffed, Mahmodian allegedly Tasered the suspect — the first time at “full deployment” mode, and then twice again “in drive stun” mode. He also allegedly kicked the suspect.

The “drive stun” mode means the weapon was placed directly on the man — usage that causes pain but not the incapacitation or shock that comes from the full deployment of wired probes.

Provincial standards and Toronto police procedure state that such a weapon can only be deployed or used in “drive stun” mode when the person is assaultive. The drive stun mode can only be used to gain control of someone who is at risk of causing harm, not simply to gain compliance of someone who is only resisting, according to a recent report to the Toronto police board.

Mahmodian, an 11-year veteran of the force, has been charged with assault, assault with a weapon and obstruction of justice, police said in a news release Monday.

Meaghan Gray, a spokesperson with Toronto police, said the obstruction charge was laid in relation to the notes he kept that were provided to investigators on the case.

It’s not clear what prompted police to investigate the force used during the arrest.

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“It was initially brought forward to the division, 53 Division, where the officer works; 53 Division referred the matter to professional standards, the investigators who reviewed the case and laid the charges against the officer,” Gray told the Star.

Mahmodian is expected in court Jan. 4.

In a separate case earlier this year, a Toronto constable who Tasered a man handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser was demoted to a lower rank in August after pleading guilty to professional misconduct.

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