去年十月，多伦多警员蒂莫西·巴恩哈特（Timothy Barnhardt）和索拉布吉特·贝迪（Saurabjit Bedi）在一家沃尔玛停车场会面，据称巴恩哈特在那里向贝迪出售了一“包”可卡因。
Last October, Toronto police Const. Timothy Barnhardt and Const. Saurabjit Bedi met up in a Walmart parking lot where Barnhardt allegedly sold Bedi a "ball" of cocaine.
“南方计划”（Project South）的调查人员当时正在进行监视。
Project South investigators were watching.
根据这份针对大规模腐败调查的搜查令申请（ITO）显示，这两名警员还被观察到在巴恩哈特的吉普牧马人车内饮酒并吸食可卡因，同时讨论贩毒事宜，以及他们刚刚摄入的可卡因的效果和纯度。
The two officers were also observed drinking alcohol and snorting lines of cocaine in Barnhardt's Jeep Wrangler while discussing selling drugs, and the effects and purity of the cocaine they'd just ingested, according to an information to obtain (ITO) application in the sweeping corruption probe.
这次在安大略省布兰普顿的会面，是ITO中详述的至少九起事件之一。在这些事件中，被“南方计划”指控的警员在2025年10月初至12月底期间，被观察到在车内吸毒或饮酒。
That meeting in Brampton, Ont., is one of at least nine instances detailed in the ITO during which police officers charged in Project South were observed consuming drugs or alcohol inside a vehicle between early October and the end of December 2025.
该申请并未说明调查人员是否认为这些警员在事件后处于神志不清的状态，也没有说明如果调查人员怀疑警员会酒驾或毒驾，他们采取了哪些措施（如果有的话）来保护公众安全。
The application doesn't say whether investigators believed the officers were impaired following these incidents or what — if any — steps they took to protect the public if investigators suspected the officers would drive away impaired.
然而，ITO中概述了至少另外三次调查人员根据“南方计划”的监视结果，警告公众可能成为犯罪目标，并与他们共同制定安全计划的情况。
However, there are at least three other occasions outlined in the ITO when investigators warned members of the public they might be targeted by criminals based on Project South surveillance and created safety plans with them.
那么，警方如何决定何时进行干预，从而可能破坏监视行动以保护公众呢？这是一种平衡。专家表示，有时警员可以在介入的同时保持调查的完整性，但公共安全是“首要考虑因素”。最近出版了职业回忆录的退休多伦多凶杀案侦探汉克·伊辛加（Hank Idsinga）表示：“如果公共安全可能受到威胁，你别无选择。你必须介入。”
So how do police decide when to intervene and potentially blow a surveillance operation in order to protect the public? It's a balancing act. Sometimes officers can step in and still maintain the integrity of the investigation but, experts say, public safety is the "paramount consideration." "If public safety is potentially being compromised, you don't have a choice. You've got to jump in there," said Hank Idsinga, a retired Toronto homicide detective who recently published a memoir on his career.
“你必须进行干预，确保不会发生任何可能导致人员受伤或死亡的事情。” “Project South”行动始于2025年6月，当时约克地区警方挫败了一起针对多伦多南部拘留中心高级狱警的谋杀阴谋。在调查过程中，警方发现巴恩哈特（Barnhardt）涉嫌将该狱警的机密信息泄露给了一个平民。
"You've got to intercede and make sure something doesn't happen where somebody could be injured or killed." Project South began in June 2025 when York Regional Police thwarted an alleged plot to kill a senior corrections officer at Toronto South Detention Centre. While investigating, York police discovered that Barnhardt had allegedly shared confidential information about that correctional officer with a civilian.
随后，调查人员通过窃听和监控手段，扩大了调查范围，进一步调查巴恩哈特及其他涉案人员的犯罪活动，包括毒品交易等。
From there, investigators expanded the scope of the probe to look into Barnhardt and others' ongoing alleged criminal activity, including drug trafficking, through wiretaps and surveillance.
针对巴恩哈特、贝迪（Bedi）以及其他涉案警官和平民的指控尚未在法庭上得到正式确认。巴恩哈特的律师此前拒绝就这些指控发表评论，而贝迪也没有回应记者的采访请求。
The charges against Barnhardt, Bedi and other officers and civilians accused in Project South have not yet been tested in court. Barnhardt's lawyer previously declined to comment on the ITO allegations, and Bedi's did not respond to a request for comment.
“公共安全始终是首要考虑因素”约克地区警方的一位发言人告诉CBC News：“在整个‘Project South’行动中，公共安全始终是首要考虑因素。”不过，由于相关指控尚未在法庭上得到审理，警方不愿透露具体的调查步骤和技术手段。
'Primary consideration'
伊丁加（Idsinga）在其35年的警察职业生涯中参与了多项窃听行动，其中18年是在多伦多凶杀案调查组工作的。
In a statement, a York Regional Police spokesperson told CBC News "public safety remained a primary consideration throughout Project South" but would not comment on the steps and techniques investigators used while charges remain before the courts.
“一旦窃听行动开始，你就会每天截获犯罪行为的证据，如何处理这些证据完全由你决定，”他说。
Idsinga was involved in — and oversaw — many wiretap projects during his 35-year policing career, which included 18 years with Toronto's homicide squad.
例如，如果伊丁加听到有关枪支交易的线索，警方就必须立即采取行动，确保这些枪支不会流入社会。
"The minute those wiretaps go up, you start intercepting calls, you're intercepting evidence of criminal behaviour on a daily basis, and it's up to you to decide what to do about it," he said.
但他也指出：“一旦警方实施逮捕，‘信息泄露的时间钟’就开始了计时”——这意味着警方必须公开某些信息（比如通过窃听获得的线索），而这可能会让嫌疑人意识到警方正在监听他们的通讯。
For example, Idsinga says if he heard about gun trafficking, officers would have to step in to make sure the gun was never used on the street.
“如果这样做会影响到窃听调查的进行，那也只能如此了，”伊丁加说道。
But as soon as police make an arrest the "disclosure clock starts ticking" and, he says, part of that disclosure would be that investigators intercepted a call on a wiretap — alerting the suspects that police are listening.
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"If that compromises your wiretap investigation, so be it," said Idsinga.
刑事律师大卫·巴特（David Butt）表示，在这类决策中，警察的责任始终是核心考虑因素。根据安大略省的《社区安全与警务法》，警察负有“保护公众”的法定职责。巴特曾为警察和犯罪受害者代理过案件，他告诉CBC新闻：“通过大规模、复杂的调查来保护公众；或者通过逮捕酒驾司机来保护公众，都是可行的方式。”
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“关键在于：如果警察鲁莽或不合理地忽视了这些职责，就有可能被追究法律责任。”巴特指出，在某些情况下，警察确实可以同时兼顾双方利益——例如让一线警员独立调查酒驾行为，或者逮捕嫌疑人以消除道路安全隐患，然后请求检方不起诉以避免相关信息被公开。
"The point being, that recklessly or unreasonably failing to do either one of those does put [police] in jeopardy of being found liable." Sometimes, Butt says, it's possible for officers to preserve both interests, such as by having a front-line officer independently observe the alleged impaired driving, or by arresting the suspect to take the risk off the road, but then asking the Crown not to prosecute to avoid disclosure.
“这或许是最理想的折中方案，既能维护大规模的调查工作，又能避免不必要的法律风险。”
"That's perhaps the best trade-off that preserves the bigger investigation," he said.