Nanaimo RCMP officer pleads guilty to breach of trust after sexual encounter

Const. Mark Tyler Hilland, 47, a Nanaimo RCMP officer, pleaded guilty to breach of trust for having sex with a vulnerable woman while off-duty in July 2024. Hilland entered the plea in B.C. provincial court on Aug. 13 and will be sentenced later; he was discharged from the Nanaimo RCMP on Aug. 14. Prosecutors said that on the evening of July 2, 2024, Hilland was in uniform in an RCMP vehicle in the parking lot of John Barsby Secondary School when he interacted with a woman he had met the previous summer. After an earlier call-out incident, the woman later gave him her address and door code, and he went to her apartment the next morning, where the agreed statement of facts says they had consensual sex.