Ottawa Detective Tells Hearing Probe of COVID Vaccines, Infant Deaths Was ‘Duty as a Police Officer’

OTTAWA—An Ottawa Police Service detective accused of discreditable conduct after probing into the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants testified at her hearing that she was upholding her oath as an officer when conducting the investigations. “My duty as a police officer is to preserve life and property, to preserve the peace. And if I see any one of those situations arising where I need to step in and preserve life, I will do something. And that’s what I did, in good faith, as a police officer,” Constable Helen Grus testified at the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) building in Stittsville on May 27....