News (Media Awareness Project) - CN ON: Hydro Takes Blame For Wrongful Bust |
| Title: | CN ON: Hydro Takes Blame For Wrongful Bust |
| Published On: | 2002-08-02 |
| Source: | Cambridge Reporter, The (CN ON) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-22 21:26:53 |
HYDRO TAKES BLAME FOR WRONGFUL BUST
"Oops. Our mistake." That in essence was Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro
Inc.'s response following an internal investigation into the errors that
led police to crash through a family's front door on July 24, expecting to
find a home-grow operation.
Instead 10 officers startled a family of three preparing for breakfast.
There was no sign of marijuana or of the illegal hydro bypass police were
expecting.
"We accept full responsibility for our error," Hydro president John
Grotheer said in a release. "We are taking steps to ensure it does not
happen again."
Grotheer admitted that because of an equipment error, the hydro company
alerted regional police to a suspected hydro bypass.
"We understood that our calculations were in error," Grotheer said.
Excessive hydro usage is common tip-off to home grows because of the
high-energy lamps used.
"We understood that our calculations were in error," Grotheer said.
The hydro company is publishing an apology in local newspapers today to the
Ng family for the trauma the incident caused.
"Your family was blameless, and we regret the disruption, embarrassment and
inconvenience this incident has caused you," the apology, written by
Grotheer, reads.
While the Ngs may be able to forgive, they said it will take quite awhile
to forget.
Fung Han Ng still has trouble getting to sleep at night.
"I guess I'm still thinking about the whole situation," she said. "Time
will heal but it is still fresh. It will take me a long time to forget
about what happened to me."
She and her husband want to make sure such a mistake "never happens to
other people again."
Grotheer said recommendations are being made to ensure such a mistake
doesn't happen again.
Waterloo Regional Police, who apologized immediately after the gaffe, were
also concerned that such a mistake not happen again.
The local police force has raided close to 100 homes in the region -
including two on Hilborn - in the last two years and had a 100 per cent
success rate until the Ng operation.
"Oops. Our mistake." That in essence was Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro
Inc.'s response following an internal investigation into the errors that
led police to crash through a family's front door on July 24, expecting to
find a home-grow operation.
Instead 10 officers startled a family of three preparing for breakfast.
There was no sign of marijuana or of the illegal hydro bypass police were
expecting.
"We accept full responsibility for our error," Hydro president John
Grotheer said in a release. "We are taking steps to ensure it does not
happen again."
Grotheer admitted that because of an equipment error, the hydro company
alerted regional police to a suspected hydro bypass.
"We understood that our calculations were in error," Grotheer said.
Excessive hydro usage is common tip-off to home grows because of the
high-energy lamps used.
"We understood that our calculations were in error," Grotheer said.
The hydro company is publishing an apology in local newspapers today to the
Ng family for the trauma the incident caused.
"Your family was blameless, and we regret the disruption, embarrassment and
inconvenience this incident has caused you," the apology, written by
Grotheer, reads.
While the Ngs may be able to forgive, they said it will take quite awhile
to forget.
Fung Han Ng still has trouble getting to sleep at night.
"I guess I'm still thinking about the whole situation," she said. "Time
will heal but it is still fresh. It will take me a long time to forget
about what happened to me."
She and her husband want to make sure such a mistake "never happens to
other people again."
Grotheer said recommendations are being made to ensure such a mistake
doesn't happen again.
Waterloo Regional Police, who apologized immediately after the gaffe, were
also concerned that such a mistake not happen again.
The local police force has raided close to 100 homes in the region -
including two on Hilborn - in the last two years and had a 100 per cent
success rate until the Ng operation.
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