How CPS mishandled the EmerEx Oil & Gas fraud complaint — twice — and buried the fallout that helped topple their own Chief of Police
Published: December 7, 2025
Author: Dave Drover (Black Sheep Whistleblower)
Category: Police Misconduct / Corporate Fraud / Systemic Corruption
INTRODUCTION
This article details how the Calgary Police Service (CPS) failed not once, but twice, to properly investigate the fraud involving my former oil & gas company, EmerEx Oil & Gas — failures that ultimately exposed deeper systemic rot inside CPS, including misconduct cover-ups and internal misrepresentations that contributed to the resignation of former CPS Chief Roger Chaffin.
Attached is the primary receipt:
✔️ My March 2018 Complaint & Allegation Resolution Form filed against Detective Dean Nichol, alleging Neglect of Duty under section 5(2)(h)(i) of the Police Service Regulation.
This is not speculation.
These are CPS’s own findings.
To catch up with Part 1 on Calgary Police Corruption please see the attached:
1️⃣ THE FIRST BOTCHED INVESTIGATION — DET. DEAN NICHOL #3411
The March 7, 2014 complaint that never stood a chance
I reported the EmerEx Oil & Gas fraud to CPS on March 7, 2014.
Four years later — March 12, 2018 — CPS internally recorded the following findings against Det. Nichol under PSS File PSR: 18-0274. The statements below are copied verbatim from their official documentation:
- “Did not conduct a thorough investigation into a complaint of fraud made by Mr. D. Drover on or about 2014 March 07.”
- “Did not complete any officer notes between 2014 March 31 and 2015 July 15.”
- “Did not conduct any meaningful investigation between 2014 March 31 and 2015 July 14 inclusive.”
- “Did not interview the involved company’s principals until 2015 July 15 or later.”
- “Did not attempt to contact Mr. Drover for almost one and a half years after the complaint was filed and assigned to him.”
- “Wrongly interviewed investigators at Mr. Drover’s professional association and allowed that information to dictate the outcome of his own investigation.”
Two years of nothing.
Millions lost.
No accountability.
Despite being a seasoned financial-crimes detective, Nichol did nothing.
And that raises a question every Calgarian should ask:
How does a veteran fraud investigator — already featured in national news for his financial-crime expertise — suddenly forget how to investigate?
Evidence:
CBC News, 2012 — Det. Nichol quoted as a financial-crimes investigator dealing with counterfeit ID and fraud:
➡️ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-dealing-with-counterfeit-id-surge-1.1214591
The Receipt for the botched investigation into Det Nichols in 2018 for botching the 2014 investigation into EmerEx Oil and Gas .- which was investigated by the Calgary Police and completely whitewashed … that post coming up next: (Take note this is a real file number 18-0274 from the 2018 Calgary Police Service Neglect of Duty Complaint against Detective Nichol #3411 (his badge number)
2️⃣ THE SECOND BOTCHED EMEREX INVESTIGATION — DET. GUICHON
A second chance for CPS to do the right thing — and a second catastrophic failure
Most people have never heard this part of the story:
CPS opened a second EmerEx investigation, years after the first, because of continued evidence I uncovered.
And they botched that one too.
This time it was Detective Guichon, yet another CPS member who mishandled the file so badly that it triggered an internal crisis inside the Service.
I possess ATIP records from 2028 outlining the failures of this second investigation — failures so severe they fed into the internal scandal that contributed directly to the resignation of CPS Chief Roger Chaffin.
Yes — the “retirement” the media sugar-coated.
3️⃣ THE CHAFFIN RESIGNATION — THE SPUN VERSION VS. THE TRUTH
Media at the time described his departure as a gentle exit after a “rocky term.”
Here’s the mainstream spin:
➡️ Retiring Calgary police chief praised for integrity after short, ‘rocky’ term
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/retiring-calgary-police-chief-praised-for-integrity-after-short-rocky-term/article_e7713200-d1c7-52c7-87f2-6cca4865ab59.html
What they didn’t say is what my ATIP records demonstrate:
Chaffin resigned following the exposure of internal misconduct, suppression of EmerEx-related failures, and the politically damaging realization that CPS had botched both the 2014 and the 2018 investigations — and then botched the internal investigation into its own detective.
He didn’t leave because of “integrity.”
He left because the truth was becoming impossible to bury.
4️⃣ THE PART THEY HID — CALGARY POLICE FAILED TO RESPOND TO THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER’S INVESTIGATION (2018)
Another critical piece of this story — one CPS never expected to surface — is their failure to comply with the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) regarding the very records tied to the botched EmerEx investigations.
Attached is the December 17, 2018 letter issued by Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton to:
- Chief Constable Roger Chaffin, Calgary Police Service
- Rob Armstrong, Privacy Counsel / Manager FOIP, CPS
The letter states that the OIPC had opened Request for Review, OIPC File #009967 regarding Calgary Police Service’s handling of Public Body File #18-P-0233, specifically concerning CPS’s lack of proper response to a complaint and access-to-information request related to the EmerEx investigation.
The OIPC had to place the file into inactive caseload because CPS still had not provided the records necessary for the Commissioner to begin the investigation.
The Privacy Commissioner makes it explicit:
“Despite the inactive status, it is important that the Manager has the records to begin the review as soon as the file is placed on active caseload.”
CPS was ordered to send both a redacted and unredacted copy of the required records to the OIPC no later than January 18, 2019.
They did not respond.
They stalled.
They withheld records.
They obstructed the investigation.
This is the part CPS never disclosed:
They were under formal review by the Alberta Privacy Commissioner for failing to comply with FOIP law — in relation to the very EmerEx investigations they had already botched.
Once again, the names involved were:
- Chief Constable Roger Chaffin
- Rob Armstrong, CPS Privacy Counsel, FOIP Section
- Jodi Townsend, Senior Information & Privacy Manager (assigned to manage the review)
CPS’s non-compliance with the Privacy Commissioner’s process is yet another documented piece of misconduct tied directly to the EmerEx cover-up — and one more reason the EmerEx matter became politically toxic inside CPS leadership circles, culminating in the engineered “retirement” of Chief Chaffin.
🔥 A TIMELINE THEY HOPED NO ONE WOULD NOTICE
See the receipt below.
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (OIPC) issued its letter on December 17, 2018, with an anticipated completion date of September 17, 2019 — ten months later.
That review never happened.
CPS delayed, withheld records, and prevented the OIPC from completing its investigation.
And that delay had real, devastating consequences.
Had the OIPC completed its review on time, I would have received the very information CPS was hiding — information that would have prevented:
- my wrongful incarceration in February 2020, and
- the fake, manufactured EGBC “decisions” forced on me in September 2019.
And here is the part no one can ignore:
The EGBC decisions were dropped on me September 18, 2019 — one day after the OIPC’s expected findings were due, findings that would have exposed CPS’s obstruction and the hidden records tied to the EmerEx investigations.
That timing was not a coincidence.
It was a coordinated sequence of institutional actions designed to ensure I never received the truth CPS and EGBC were both working to conceal.
5️⃣ THE FINAL STRAW — FALSE REPORTS, ONLINE SMEARS & A POLICE SERVICE IN FULL RETREAT
While all of this was unfolding, Danny Keith Martin continued spreading false claims on social media, telling anyone who would listen that I “defrauded EmerEx” and filing repetitive, baseless complaints with CPS and the RCMP.
Here is the reality:
👉 CPS knows I did not defraud EmerEx.
👉 RCMP knows I did not defraud EmerEx.
👉 What both agencies do know — and what Danny pretends not to — is that CPS botched multiple EmerEx investigations, botched the internal review of their own detective, and then failed to comply with the Alberta Privacy Commissioner’s investigation into their misconduct.
The December 17, 2018 letter from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (OIPC) confirms this. CPS leadership — including Chief Constable Roger Chaffin, FOIP Manager Rob Armstrong, and Senior Privacy Manager Jodi Townsend — failed to provide the required records for OIPC’s review of Public Body File 18-P-0233, which directly related to CPS’s handling of the EmerEx complaint.
The Privacy Commissioner explicitly warned that the review could not begin until CPS supplied both redacted and unredacted records.
They did not.
They stalled.
They obstructed.
This non-compliance is part of the same pattern of avoidance, concealment, and internal damage control that ultimately led to:
✔️ Guichon being removed,
✔️ Other officers quietly reassigned, and
✔️ Chief Chaffin’s engineered “retirement” as the political fallout became impossible to contain.
Meanwhile, Danny continues pushing a narrative that collapses under the weight of the documented facts. His false reports and recycled accusations have never aligned with what law enforcement actually knows — and the official records now entering the public domain make that unmistakably clear.
As more documents are released, the truth will speak for itself.
CONCLUSION — THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE EXPOSED
This isn’t a story about one detective.
Or two bad investigations.
Or one incompetent Chief.
This is a story about systemic police failure, administrative cover-up, political interference, and how institutions bend over backward to protect themselves at the expense of victims of fraud.
More receipts are coming.
Stay tuned.
LEGAL NOTICE & COPYRIGHT
© 2025 Black Sheep Whistleblower / Dave Drover.
All rights reserved.
No portion of this publication may be reproduced, quoted, or distributed without attribution.
This article contains opinion based on documented evidence, ATIP records, and publicly available reporting.
Readers are encouraged to consult the linked documents and attached exhibits for verification.
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