And he's been on PAID suspension since February 2022, nice work if you can get it.
It’s actually the law here in Ontario, but it is changing...slightly.
Right now in Ontario, as a police officer you have to be convicted of an offense and imprisoned in order to be suspended without pay. Even if you were convicted of a crime, if you weren't imprisoned, you still had to be paid - at least until they fired you. It's completely ridiculous, because if they appealed the job termination, they could be suspended with pay for years, collecting a salary while they dragged out the process.
As of April 1, the new regulations come in, and a chief can suspend an officer without pay in some other limited circumstances. They can be suspended without pay if they are in custody or on bail conditions that would prevent them from doing their duties. They can also be suspended without pay if the officer is charged with an offence that is serious enough to lead to their firing, but there's a catch. This would only apply to offences committed while off duty, so any on-duty offence that they were charged with that could lead to them being fired, they still get paid while on suspension.
In this case, it seems that the thefts happened while on duty, so most likely nothing would change for this gem of a cop under the new regulations.