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Before Sgt. Anthony Braile was fired from Calgary’s police force over professional misconduct, he was paid more than $700,000 just to await his fate.

Braile was suspended with pay sometime in 2009 through to September last year.

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As a level two sergeant with the Calgary Police Service his annual salary would be between $122,907 and $126,589, plus benefits.

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Diane Colley-Urquhart, city councillor and member of the police commission, said the time the investigation into Braile’s actions took and the price tag attached didn’t serve anybody well.

“It’s a blight on the police service when it takes (that long) for an incident to be investigated when it involves an officer,” Colley-Urquhart said.

“And from the officer’s point of view, to have that hanging over your head for (that long) and not knowing where things are going to go is a problem.

“From a police governance point of view it calls into question the whole investigative process.