A BC Mountie sued and exposed a colleague as a current undercover officer 17 months after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting her, according to a recent BC Supreme Court decision.

Jordan Irvine used the woman’s full name, background details and the fact she was currently an undercover officer in his court filings. It’s not clear if anyone accessed information in the file that sat for 11 months in a court registry before being served.

The undercover officer had to apply to a judge to have her name redacted from the civil file before late last month, she successfully applied to have the entire case tossed. The case touches many sensitive issues the RCMP is currently dealing with including bullying, harassment and sexual abuse.

In March 2017, the undercover officer, AA, disclosed details to a friend and fellow Mountie of an encounter with Irvine while off duty and attending a course at the Pacific Region Training Centre. She said she was sexually assaulted, but never intended to report it formally.

But her confidante did anyway, without her knowledge, and the RCMP began an internal disciplinary investigation. It’s not clear what happened at that hearing or if she testified, but the adjudicators found the accusation was not established. Irvine said it was a consensual encounter.

Irvine, who still works with the RCMP in Surrey, sued her and others for defamation in 2020. He initially opposed her attempts to conceal her identity but consented at the hearing.

Irvine didn’t do much else with his defamation case in the last five years beyond endangering his accuser and the cases she was working on, so Justice Jennifer Lynn Whately dismissed it for want of prosecution. Memories fade ten years after the event and after five years of “unjustified delay”, the judge said.

The justice awarded AA her costs on the application.