Calgary officer sexually assaulted strip club worker then other officers lied for him: court docs

In October 2021, a group of Calgary Police Service officers were drinking at a local strip club when one of the officers sexually assaulted a female employee and the others lied about it, newly released court documents show. 

The documents — an agreed statement of facts and court transcript — were filed as part of one officer's plea to a charge of sexual assault earlier this year.

Const. Gurluv Singh was handed a conditional discharge, meaning a conviction will not be registered if he completes a period of probation.

In handing down his sentencing decision, Justice John Bascom noted Singh's actions "were spontaneous and fuelled by alcohol."

Previously an "exemplary employee of CPS," Bascom found Singh's actions were "an anomaly and out of character."

Singh's lawyer Shamsher Kothari said his client is "genuinely remorseful and takes full responsibility for his actions."

"It remains true that this is a very unfortunate situation involving actions completely out of character resulting in a particularly harmful mistake," said Kothari.

Details of what transpired at Blondies All Star Cabaret comes from the agreed statement of facts.

On Oct. 9, 2021, a "whole district team" of off-duty CPS officers were drinking and "socializing" at Blondies, a strip club in the Beltline.

The complainant worked at Blondies as a "shooter girl," selling shots of alcohol.

The woman approached a table of off-duty officers with a tray of shots. 

One of the men — who was not identified by name in the documents — touched a shooter on the tray. Because of COVID rules at the time, the staff member explained that the man now had to buy the shot.

The woman described him as "annoying."

"He did not want to purchase the shooter and instead attempted to negotiate something more entertaining than simply buying the shooter as a gift to the accused," according to the agreed statement of facts.