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Calgary police conducted an undercover operation in Calgary’s sole supervised consumption site to investigate internal drug trafficking, Postmedia has learned.

Claims made in the UCP-approved supervised consumption sites report said the committee was “made aware that a peer worker was trafficking narcotics at the Safeworks (supervised consumption site), while staff supported her.”

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Police clarified that there were two separate incidents in question.

An outreach worker who was formally an employee of Alberta Health Services was charged with the trafficking of narcotics as part of the police service’s Daylight Initiative in response to the exponential growth of methamphetamine in Calgary. She was charged in March 2019.

The arrest did not take place in the Safeworks facility and she was not charged with trafficking inside the site.

Police said they did contain evidence of drug trafficking within Safeworks, but it was not related to the aforementioned incident and they relayed this information to the provincial-appointed committee.