Drug-dealing Vancouver cop sentenced to three years
Published Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 2:44PM
A former Vancouver police officer who sold drugs from his cruiser has been sentenced to three years in prison. Peter Hodson pleaded guilty last November to three charges, including break and enter and trafficking in marijuana. At his sentencing hearing, provincial court heard the married father of four is a born narcissist who didn't care if his actions cost him his job. Mr. Hodson was arrested at police headquarters in April 2010 and immediately fired. Psychologist Dr. Michael Elterman, who spent several hours with Mr. Hodson, told provincial court that the married father of four has an inflated self-image.
Court also heard Mr. Hodson admitted to lying on his university exams, having multiple mistresses and that he didn’t care if his actions cost him his job.
This is very sad to hear because he was a man helping to uphold our justice system. It is very important that our police officers, or anyone in a position of authority, can be depended to follow the laws they should be enforcing. The man is a father of four children, and for him to admit he has multiple mistresses is very disappointing. The wife and kids will now have to live with the shame, and embarrassment their husband and father has brought to the family. To me that would be a very difficult thing to deal with. He has also done other acts that do not follow the rules, so I feel that his punishment should be very severe.
This looks very bad on the Canadian Governments behalf. They should be aware of everything and anything their deployed officers are up to out in the community.Would you put your life in the hands of a decorated drug trafficker? I think the government needs to bear down on this because if another incident like this happens again, trust for police officers could be lost. Which in turn, would lead to more bad things, and the government may lose control of the citizens.
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