Kimberley Prodaniuk, a member of the Calgary Police Service who has been on stress leave for nearly two years, is seeking compensation for the harassment she has allegedly endured during her time with the force.
According to the statement of claim filed March 6 in Court of Queen’s Bench, Prodaniuk is suing the City of Calgary, Chief of Police, Calgary Police Service, and the Calgary Police Association as she alleges she was the ‘victim of harassment, sexual harassment, intimidation and outrageous conduct committed by the Service’s and Association’s employees, members and officers’ after joining the service in March 2008.
The unproven allegations listed in the statement of claim include:
- Being forced to execute her services as a District 2 member without a partner after she informed a superior of her former partner’s concerning conduct
- Being asked by a detective, while on a vice sting, to describe ‘the best blow job you’ve ever given’
- Unwelcome flirting from her partner during her time as a District 8 member
- Being encouraged to pretend to perform oral sex using frozen peas on an imaginary female on a public stage in front of other officers during her ISTAT training
- Being encouraged to pretend to have orgasms in public including an instance on the merry-go-round at Chinook Centre
- Being encouraged to approach a male customer at a Safeway location and offer him a threesome involving her and her female ISTAT partner
- Being told by a superior that ‘sometimes I find policewomen have a tone in their voice, maybe you need to take a (expletive) course’
- Being told she ‘seemed like a sensitive girl’ after voicing her concerns to the Calgary Police Association
- Being told that by an inspector in human resources that a problem was rooted in her reputation for being a bitch
Source: CTV New Calgary
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