Crown drops sex offender registry charge against former Nova Scotia police chief
On March 4, 2020, John Collyer was sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually exploiting a 17-year-old girl when he was deputy chief of the Bridgewater Police Service.
A former police chief in Nova Scotia, John Collyer, who was convicted in 2020 for sexually exploiting a 17-year-old girl, is no longer facing a charge of failing to comply with an order under the Sex Offender Information Registration Act. Collyer, who was the deputy chief of the Bridgewater Police Service at the time of the incident, was sentenced to 15 months in jail and his DNA profile was added to the national sex offender registry for 20 years.
On September 2025, he was scheduled to stand trial for violating the act but the Crown prosecutor Hannah Cameron announced on Monday that the charge would be withdrawn, citing no public interest in proceeding with the case.
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