Part I – The Complaint That Started It All
Date: March 7 2014 → Present

🐑 PART 1 — CALGARY POLICE CORRUPTION: The EmerEx Oil and Gas fraud introduction …

⚠️ Preface — This Is Only the Beginning

🐑 CALGARY POLICE CORRUPTION — PART 1: THE BEGINNING

If you’ve been paying attention — really paying attention — to the Calgary Police Service over the past decade, you’ll know that corruption inside CPS isn’t new. The headlines come and go, but the pattern never changes. Such as this headline from 2018:

What I’m about to share isn’t just another story about police misconduct — it’s my story, drawn from direct experience and a decade of investigation into how deep the corruption runs inside Calgary’s law enforcement, legal, and political networks.

This is Part 1 of a multi-part exposé on Calgary Police corruption, directly tied to my own case and what I’ve uncovered since 2014.

Over the last ten years, I’ve investigated the Calgary Police Service, the Calgary Police Commission, and the tight web of influence connecting them to Alberta’s justice system and corporate elite.

What’s coming is shocking — and it’s fully documented.
I have the receipts, and I’ll be posting everything.

So buckle up. This is going to be one hell of a ride.

🧩 A System Already in Crisis

By the time I filed my first CPS complaint (March 7, 2014), Calgary Police leadership and oversight were already cracking under the weight of scandal — HR turmoil, bullying allegations, and sudden resignations that the media politely called “retirements.”

Chief Roger Chaffin “retires” (officially July 17 2018): his announcement was spun as voluntary, but came amid mounting harassment and culture-of-fear scandals. His last day was January 6 2019 (Global News video).
Commission Chair Brian Thiessen (2015 – 2019): a labour lawyer who defended CPS management throughout the internal HR crisis. His tenure quietly ended in 2019 — the same year Chaffin exited.
Sgt. Les Kaminski, then head of the Calgary Police Association, faced criminal charges from a 2008 arrest; the perjury charge was withdrawn in 2018. He retired from both the union and CPS in 2020.
Calgary media repeatedly documented systemic misconduct, harassment, and retaliation against internal whistleblowers — a climate where complaints like mine simply vanished.

These weren’t isolated incidents. They revealed a pattern:
leadership churn + oversight breakdown + internal cover-ups.

That’s the institutional backdrop against which my own 2014 complaint — involving EmerEx Oil & Gas Ltd. and a Calgary-based $100 million mining-fraud network — was ignored and buried.

“Calgary Police Chief Roger Chaffin announces his retirement.” — Global News (2018)
📺 Watch Video

🧨 The “Retirement” That Wasn’t

What’s interesting about Roger Chaffin’s so-called “retirement” is that it wasn’t a retirement at all — it was, in effect, a forced exit.

The timing is impossible to ignore. On July 9, 2018, I filed a formal complaint of corruption with the Calgary Police Commission, naming then-Chief Roger Chaffin and Commission Chair Brian Thiessen among others. In that complaint, I alleged that Chaffin had covered up key elements of the EmerEx investigation — including information I had provided linking EmerEx Oil & Gas Ltd. and a related $100 million mining-fraud network based out of Calgary.

That network, according to individuals who worked within the companies involved, was being used as a front for transnational money laundering and cocaine trafficking operations tied to Mexican cartel and Chinese organized-crime interests. I was in a position to know because I had been a shareholder, co-founder, and board member of a TSX-listed mining company connected to those same players — and had personal knowledge that both the RCMP IMET Unit in Calgary and the Alberta Securities Commission were examining aspects of this network as early as 2014–2015.

On the night of July 16, 2018, I sent an email to several Calgary Police officers notifying them that my formal complaint was being filed and outlining its contents. The next morning, July 17, 2018, Roger Chaffin abruptly announced his “retirement” — mid-way through his five-year contract and without any substantive explanation.

In my view, this was no coincidence. Under Alberta’s Police Act, once a Chief retires, they are no longer subject to internal disciplinary proceedings. It’s an old tactic I’ve seen before — used by both RCMP and Calgary Police officers — to evade investigation, accountability, and exposure.

Stay tuned. In the next section, I’ll go deep into that timeline — with documents, emails, and receipts — showing exactly what happened inside the Calgary Police Service in those final days before Chaffin stepped down.

⚖️ The Beginning — March 7 2014

On March 7 2014, I walked into the Calgary Police Service headquarters to file what should have been a straightforward criminal complaint.
It was anything but.

That complaint was against the newly installed Directors of EmerEx Oil & Gas Ltd., my own friends-and-family company—a venture we had built together with trust, sweat, and the optimism of Alberta’s oil boom. We were all wealthy then: Ferraris, Bentleys, multi-million-dollar homes from Calgary to Palm Springs. Our families vacationed together. Our wives were close.

But in October 2013, the people I trusted most forced me out. They seized control of EmerEx, replaced me as President and Director, and within weeks began falsifying documents and forging my professional geologist’s signature. Their goal: to collapse the company from the inside, destroy its value, and pin the fraud on me.

It wasn’t just a corporate betrayal. It was the trigger event that set off a decade-long campaign of retaliation that would later involve the Calgary Police, the RCMP, and senior figures in Alberta’s judicial and political hierarchy.

🧾 The Criminal Complaint That Went Nowhere

Two weeks after I filed my complaint—on March 21 2014—those same directors filed a civil action:

EmerEx Oil and Gas Ltd v. Drover, 2016 ABQB 420 (CanLII)
Full judgment link

They accused me of breaching fiduciary duty and mismanaging company funds—classic projection tactics to bury their own fraud.

I counter-sued for oppression, conspiracy, and defamation.
They responded with a Security for Costs application—a procedural weapon designed to choke off my counterclaim before it could be heard.

Justice J.T. McCarthy granted their motion, ordering me to post $40,000 in “security” or face dismissal. The result: my counterclaim was effectively silenced.

At the time, I didn’t know that the lawyer representing EmerEx had worked for the Alberta Securities Commission, where Justice McCarthy himself had served as a Director before his appointment to the bench. Their relationship wasn’t disclosed. Years later, that same lawyer became a Federal Crown Prosecutor in the Lethbridge Courthouse, handling cocaine-trafficking cases linked to the Coutts border investigation—the very courthouse where I would later help expose prosecutorial misconduct.

Another EmerEx shareholder, also a lawyer, went on to become a defence counsel for one of the Coutts Four (Jerry Morin). His father had served in the RCMP. Ten years after the EmerEx theft, these two lawyers—once on the same side of the fraud—were now appearing on opposite sides of the bench in Lethbridge.

Coincidence? I doubt it.

🚔 The Calgary Police Connection

When I first filed the March 7 2014 complaint, I expected CPS to investigate the forged signatures and document tampering. Instead, I was ignored—stonewalled by a wall of silence that would later reveal a culture of protectionism and internal corruption inside the Calgary Police Service.

The officers involved in those early years included:

Constable Flynn, who actually received a criminal harassment complaint against me in September 2018 against a women I did not know lol and buried it she was fired months later to cover it up .
Les Kaminski (then-President of the Calgary Police Association), who publicly sparred with the Police Commission while facing his own criminal charges (assault & perjury, later dropped). Kaminski knew about the frauds I even spoke to him on the phone he was fired!!
Brian Thiessen, the Chair of the Calgary Police Commission (2015–2019), a labour lawyer who defended the Service’s handling of internal harassment and HR resignations. this guy was an insider who worked at the very law firm who had been taking me down for over a decade and lying in affidavits … when I get to Thiessen its going to be GOOD.
Roger Chaffin, Chief of Police (2015–2019), who presided over CPS during its most turbulent era of internal scandals, harassment lawsuits, and resignations. As is said above.

Chaffin announced his retirement on July 17 2018, effective January 6 2019, amid mounting public scrutiny.
🎥 Watch his retirement announcement video (Global News)

Even as Chaffin thanked the Commission for its “support,” insiders knew the Service was imploding under the weight of unaddressed misconduct, bullying, and HR collapse. Those same years overlapped precisely with the timeframe in which my complaint—and others like it—were suppressed.

⚖️ The Security-for-Costs Ruling — A Case Study in Collusion

The official judgment (2016 ABQB 420) reads like a procedural manual in how to neutralize a whistleblower.
Justice McCarthy accepted the EmerEx directors’ version of events wholesale, ordered me to post $40,000 in “security,” and stayed my counterclaim.

I was self-represented.
They had the full machine—corporate counsel, political ties, and a judge who once sat on the board of the Alberta Securities Commission.

The EmerEx lawyer who prosecuted that application would later handle federal Crown cocaine-trafficking files in the same courthouse where one of his former colleagues defended the Coutts Four.

This isn’t speculation. It’s all in the record.
(See the full ruling here).

🧩 The Systemic Web — Police, Prosecution, and Protection

From 2014 to Present, Calgary Police, Alberta Justice, and the courts formed a seamless barrier around this case.

CPS ignored the 2014 criminal complaint.
Justice McCarthy crushed my counterclaim in 2016.
Chief Chaffin retired in 2019 amid internal scandal.
Commission Chair Brian Thiessen quietly stepped down the same year.
Les Kaminski retired from the Police Association in 2020, after his perjury charge was dropped.
Justice McCarthy became supernumerary (Jan 6 2020)—semi-retired but still on the judicial payroll.

By then, the damage was done. EmerEx was gone. My career was destroyed.
But the network that protected those responsible is still intact.

There is so so much more but I will really try to keep this on track to keep it to the Calgary Police Only.

💬 Closing Thought

The Calgary Police Service had every opportunity to act on my March 7 2014 complaint. Instead, they buried it—protecting the same circle of insiders who would later appear in the Coutts trials and Crown offices a decade later.

This isn’t just about one company or one whistleblower.
It’s about how law enforcement and the justice system in Alberta protect their own—no matter the cost to those who tell the truth.

GET READY FOR PART 2

Next in the series:
🕳️ Part II – The EmerEx Complaint That Vanished: How the Calgary Police Covered for Corporate Crime… and how the EmerEx fraud was pinned on me!!!

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