明报/加拿大广播公司《新闻》(CBC News)取得的秘密录音，证明前多伦多警政委员会主席伍素萍(图)，曾被多伦多警方非法窃听。
多年来外界一直指控，警方从1991年5月起窃听伍素萍的电话，当时她就任多伦多警政委员会主席仅有数日。
时任多伦多警察总长的麦哥马克(Bill McCormack)及主管警员的警司范天奴(Julian Fantino)一直拒绝说明，他们是否要求或知道，警方正监听伍素萍的电话。范天奴后来一路高升，曾担任多伦多警察总长和安省省警总监。但加拿大广播公司《新闻》获得一些录音，显示伍素萍同密友马洛尼(Peter Maloney)谈论各种话题，从警方事务到非常个人的话题。
警方不守法令 超时录伍电话
当时警方对法官说，马洛尼或与毒贩有关系。该法官于是授权警方，监听马洛尼的电话，但要求警方注意，如电话涉及法庭文件上未点名的其他人，如伍素萍，警方须在监听1分钟后终止。但警方没遵守该法令，继续录下伍素萍的电话，有些甚至长达20至30分钟。
伍素萍现为退休人士倡权组织CARP的副主席，她最近告诉加拿大广播公司《新闻》，她对警方此举感到厌恶，担心这种行为仍在继续。
伍素萍说：“你知道有法律禁止非法窃听，警方本应维护这条法例，而不是喜欢便违反法纪。”
在1990年代初，多伦多警方因数次枪击年轻黑人而面临抨击，省府于是委任伍素萍，领导警队的改革。
录制伍素萍电话交谈的是探员卡特(Garry Carter)，他声称自己只是服从命令。卡特于1995年离开警队，但因窃取警方办案经费4.7万元，后来被检控和认罪，他于2002年被判家中软禁1年。
Toronto police illegally bugged ex-chair: tapes
Last Updated: Friday, November 19, 2010 | 5:41 PM ET CBC News
Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair.
There have been allegations for years that police began spying on their civilian boss, Susan Eng, beginning in May 1991, days after she was sworn in.
Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino — superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner — have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
But now CBC News has obtained the tape recordings of Eng talking to her confidant and friend, Peter Maloney, about everything from police business to the very personal.
At the time, police had gone to a judge claiming Maloney may have ties to drug dealers.
The judge granted officers authority to wiretap his phone, but they were ordered to shut down the wiretap after a minute if the calls involved anyone, such as Eng, not listed on the paperwork.
Police ignored the order and recorded Eng, with some recordings lasting 20 or 30 minutes.
Eng expresses disgust
Eng, a lawyer who is now vice-president of advocacy for CARP, which represents retired people, told CBC News recently that she’s disgusted and worries this kind of thing is still going on.
“You know there’s a law against illegal wiretapping,” said Eng. “Police are supposed to uphold that law, not go out and break it when they feel like it.”
In the early 1990s Toronto police were under fire over several shootings of young black men. The province appointed Eng, a civilian, to bring in reforms.
The officer who made the tapes, Det. Garry Carter, claimed he was acting on orders.
Carter left the force in 1995, but later pleaded guilty to stealing $47,000 in connection with the missing money from the police investigative fund. He was sentenced in 2002 to a year of house arrest.
A report written by Carter and leaked to CBC News in 2007 said Fantino was extremely concerned Maloney, Eng’s political ally and a Toronto criminal lawyer, could pose a security risk.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/11/19/toronto-police-recordings-eng.html#ixzz15ypL3pCc
