A disciplinary hearing officer is now tasked with solving that riddle, which experts say is only slightly easier than assembling IKEA furniture blindfolded.
Behiels, an embattled detective with a flair for oversharing, is in the final stretch of a Police Act hearing after leaking gigabytes of case files about convicted mortgage fraudster Abdullah Shah – who was shot outside his home in 2022 – to a CBC reporter. According to insiders, the data dump was so large the newsroom thought someone had mistakenly uploaded an entire season of a prestige crime drama.
The detective pleaded guilty last summer to three misconduct counts, including breach of confidence and insubordination, which in police terms ranks somewhere between “accidentally tasered the photocopier” and “borrowed the cruiser for a Tim Hortons run.”
Now the hearing officer must decide whether Behiels is a principled truth-teller or simply Edmonton’s most enthusiastic Dropbox user.
