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TORONTO — A Durham Regional Police officer has earned more than $600,000 since he was first suspended in 2008 after separate assault and use of excessive force charges.

Const. Glen Turpin has twice been convicted on criminal charges and has been convicted three times on Police Services Act charges. The most recent conviction was made in 2012, but Turpin, 46, is still suspended and earning his full paycheque while awaiting lawyers’ submissions on if he should keep his badge.

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Ontario is the only province in Canada where police officers facing charges must be suspended with pay. Officers can only be suspended without pay if they’ve been convicted and imprisoned, making them unable to report to work.

Turpin was charged with assault and threatening bodily harm in 2006 after he twice grounded a prisoner inside a cell and threatened to punch the prisoner’s “teeth straight through the back of your head.”