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Mayor Rob Ford, worried he was being followed, tried to use his position to get information he wouldn’t have gotten as a regular citizen, police documents state.

According to those documents, reams of which were made public in a dramatic data dump Thursday, multiple Ford staffers called Toronto Police detectives in August to tell them Ford was “very concerned” he was being followed.

The Mayor “is concerned about his safety,” his Chief of Staff Earl Provost told police.

“Provost stated … the Mayor has seen the guy and furthermore the Mayor has talked to the guy but the guy sped off,” the documents state.

“Mayor Ford has a description of the guy; Mayor Ford saw the car. … Provost further advised that Mayor Ford is getting angry at Provost because he can’t give him what he wants.”

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What he wanted, in this case, was registration details of the car Ford thought was tailing him. But Provost gave two versions of the licence plate of the vehicle, which the Mayor said he had written down while driving.

Detectives said they were willing to look into it. But the police notes indicate Ford’s office never followed up.

Mayor Ford is utilizing his position and the powers of the Office of the Mayor, to obtain information not available to regular citizens," “I believe that the above attempts by Provost to obtain registration details for Mayor Ford clearly indicate thatreads a note in the court documents, apparently written by homicide detective Nader Khoshbooi.

This note is part of an information to obtain a warrant, hundreds of pages of which were released Thursday in connection with a months-long police investigation into Ford and his friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi.

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Homicide detectives were assigned to look into allegations of a video allegedly depicting the Mayor smoking crack cocaine.

None of the statements in the documents have been proven in court.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair confirmed Thursday that police have a video of the Mayor “consistent” with media reports, but he wouldn’t go into further detail.

“That file contains video images which appear to be those images that were previously reported in the press with respect to events that took place we believe at a house on Windsor Road in Etobicoke,” Blair said.



Lisi, arrested on drug charges Oct. 1, is expected to appear in court on an extortion charge Friday.



Ford refused to comment on the revelations Thursday, saying the issue is “before the courts.” And, he added, he has “no reason to resign.”