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Montreal police officer Éric Locas has been suspended for 15 days without pay for insulting a Muslim motorist, but the Police Ethics Committee warns the officer may well lose his job if he breaches the police ethics code one more time.

This latest transgression, which occurred in February 2017, was the officer’s tenth breach of the code, and in the decision, the committee seems to express frustration the officer did not learn his lesson the first nine times.

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“What to conclude other than the messages of the Committee were ignored by Officer Locas and possibly by his superiors,” says the decision on sanction rendered Nov. 25 by administrative judge Pierre Gagné.

On the morning of Feb. 6, 2017, Locas pulled over a driver, Abdelkrim Rahal, on Papineau Ave. Locas greeted Rahal by saying “Shalom”, and then told him he did not have his lights on and it was still dark. Rahal argued that the sun was coming up, so the officer offered to show him a weather app to point out the exact time of the sunrise.