A 21 year veteran of the Calgary Police Service could be sent to jail for 24 years if charges of his misuse of the police database are proven to be true.
Gerard Brand faces one count each of the unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust after he allegedly used police computers to dig up names, phone numbers, and addresses of nearly a dozen people and passed that information on to a northeast Calgary financial services company.
Brand has been suspended with pay following the incident.
Kevin Brookwell, with the CPS, says he's never seen anything like this before. "In my 32 years of CPS I've never seen a matter like this go to a criminal level."
The incidents are said to have occurred between March 2010 and August 2011.
Police will not identify the business involved, but are looking into whether or not it too will face charges.
Brand has been in trouble before, pleading guilty to unlawfully storing and handling his firearm, but was given an absolute discharge.
