TBPS officer sentenced to probation after assault conviction

Michelle Allan · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 4:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Thunder Bay Police Service Cst. Andrew Frankow was sentenced Friday aft being convicted of battle causing bodily harm.

Frankow was fixed a suspended sentence, which means helium won't service immoderate jailhouse time. He received 2 years probation and volition beryllium required to implicit 150 hours of assemblage service. 

Frankow assaulted a antheral successful Thunder Bay successful April 2022, causing him bodily harm, according to tribunal documents obtained by CBC News. 

Frankow was suspended successful June 2022. He pleaded not guilty, but was found blameworthy of battle causing bodily harm successful September 2023.

He appeared successful restorative justness tribunal aggregate times implicit the people of 2024, according to tribunal documents. 

Restorative justness aims to rehabilitate offenders by considering the basal causes down the behaviours that led them to the justness strategy successful the archetypal place. It besides attempts to get offenders to code however their actions person impacted their community, according to a 2019 property merchandise from the provincial lawyer general.

On paid suspension since 2022

Frankow has been connected paid suspension from TBPS since 2022.  

Under the Police Services Act, constabulary officers are astir ever required to beryllium paid portion suspended. They tin beryllium suspended without pay if they were some convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment. 

The enactment was overhauled and the changes took effect past year. Now, chiefs tin besides suspend without wage if the serviceman is charged with a superior off-duty offence that could besides pb to their firing, oregon if an serviceman is successful custody oregon connected bail with conditions that would interfere with their quality to bash their job.

The tribunal accusation expanse indicates the conditions connected Frankow's probation see providing a DNA sample. The expanse does not bespeak helium volition beryllium taxable to a weapons prohibition oregon driving prohibition.  

TBPS did not supply a effect to petition for remark connected Frankow's employment status. 

Multiple different TBPS constables are scheduled for assault-related tribunal appearances. 

Taylor Auger, Ryan Dougherty and Michael Moore were charged with battle causing bodily harm relating to abstracted alleged incidents successful 2023 and 2024. Their charges all are scheduled to beryllium addressed in March and April.

TBPS Staff Sgt. Michael Dimini is facing battle and breach of spot charges, which are scheduled for proceedings confirmation hearings successful April and May. The tribunal has previously dismissed one complaint of assault against him.