Access of Records System by Detective Charged for Probing Link of Child’s Death to COVID Vaccine Was ‘Routine’, Retired Officer Says

OTTAWA—A retired Ottawa police sergeant testified at the trial of Detective Helen Grus that it was “normal” for police officers to make records management system (RMS) queries for cases they were not the lead investigators of, seeming to contradict prosecutors’ claim that Ms. Grus “self-initiated an unauthorized project” when investigating the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants. “That’s normal, daily activity at the Ottawa Police Service [OPS] and I assume any police service across the Western world,” testified retired OPS Staff Sergeant Peter Danyluk on Jan. 9 at the trial in Ottawa. “The last two years, I got a call from an [Ontario Provincial Police] officer that had consulted one of my information reports I submitted when being off-duty in Renfrew coming back from one of my homes. And the officer said, ‘Hey, can we use your information report in the case against this individual?’ I wouldn’t bat an eye at that.”...