Under pressure from reporters, Mayor Rob Ford admitted Thursday he “might have had some drinks,” then driven.

A police document reveals allegations of repeated abuse, including how he guzzled vodka in his car, almost hit a staffer while pulling out of his driveway after a night of drinking, and left a trail of Iceberg vodka bottles in high school parking lots and local parks.

Previously unreleased portions of the police surveillance document also highlight troubled whisperings from Ford’s inner circle, members of which “had concerns about the Mayor’s tendency to drink and drive.”

Ford made the statement Thursday, before apologizing for his behaviour and pushing back with reporters — suggesting he wasn’t the only one who is likely to have taken a drink at some time and then decided to drive.

He denied new allegations that he snorted cocaine in a bar, popped OxyContin pills and brought prostitutes to his City Hall office after a night of partying.

None of the allegations found in the new information released Wednesday has been proven in court.

Among the claims: Ford guzzled vodka in front of a young aide while in his car; drove another staffer to an event while inebriated; and almost drove over his chief of staff after a night of drinking. He was also seen meeting with Alexander “Sandro” Lisi in a park and school parking lot, where both times vodka bottles were recovered by police after Ford drove away.

His behaviour while serving as mayor prompted former chief of staff Mark Towhey to implement a new policy that “if staff was driving with the Mayor then they would have to drive. The Mayor was never to drive any of the staff around,” according to the police document. On Thursday, Towhey told NewsTalk1010 listeners that staff believed police already knew Ford was drinking and driving.

Towhey is one of three chiefs of staff in less than three years to express concerns about Ford’s drinking, make policy changes to keep staff safe, or barely escape injury by Ford in his car, according to the documents.

The detailed police document, of which portions still remain blacked out, is a combination of interviews and observations by police who were watching the mayor and his friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi for months. Lisi was later charged with trafficking in marijuana and extortion.

Within the nearly 500 pages in the document was a police interview with former Ford staff member Chris Fickel, who told police that Ford guzzled an 11- to 12- ounce bottle of vodka, alternating with Gatorade, in less than two minutes while behind the wheel of his Escalade, possibly parked near a high school. Fickel told police it happened around November 2012, after a practice for Ford’s beloved Don Bosco Eagles. Fickel said he exited the back seat of Ford’s car before the mayor “drove away.”

Ford’s former press secretary, George Christopoulos, also spoke with police, telling them that both Fickel and Ford’s former chief of staff Amir Remtulla “had concerns about the Mayor’s tendency to drink and drive.”

In 2012, his current chief of staff, Earl Provost, was “almost hit” by the mayor’s car after he accompanied Ford home in a cab following a night of heavy drinking and alleged drug use at City Hall and the Bier Markt. Upon arrival, Ford decided to get into his own car and drive away, according allegations in the document.

“The next day or days after, Provost told Mayor Ford what had happened that night, but Mayor Ford said that he did not remember this incident,” the document says.

After that event, two Ford staffers went to pick him up at his home for an event, at which one of them, Kia Nejatian, described Ford’s appearance to police as “under the influence and impaired.” Ford drove his car with the second staffer, Jennifer Dwyer, inside. Nejatian said Dwyer messaged him, saying Ford was “not driving properly” and that she was “scared” — something Dwyer later denied when she spoke to police.

The details of Ford’s supposed drinking and driving are not gleaned strictly from interviews with staff.

In August, questions were raised about whether an allegedly slurring and unsteady Ford drove himself to the Taste of the Danforth street festival as staff scrambled to locate him. Ford recently admitted to being “hammered” that night but earlier told NewsTalk1010 listeners he had beer after arriving and was later driven home.

Details of police surveilling Ford and friend Lisi were released in the first, more censored version of the police document.

In August, police followed Ford, Lisi and a third man to the Steak Queen on Rexdale Blvd. Ford drove the three men to the restaurant, and an officer who followed them inside noted that all three appeared to be “under the influence of alcohol and or drug but not to the state of impairment.”

Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...

“Mayor Ford appeared disheveled with a large sweat stain circling his stomach, sweating profusely from his forehead, his eyes were squinting as he walked, his suit jacket was wrinkled and he wore it without a tie,” the document says.

The week before, Ford and Lisi had been watched by police as they walked into a heavily wooded area of Douglas B. Ford Park, named for the mayor’s father. They emerged after about an hour and drove away, both in their respective vehicles. Police recovered an empty vodka bottle and juice bottle from the spot.

In late July, Ford met with Lisi in the deserted parking lot of Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy. Police had recovered “two empty vodka bottles” they believed the mayor had removed from his Escalade.

Ford drove away from the lot in his own car.