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A CHRONICLE OF NEWS FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY | June 19, 2015 – Vol. 20 No. 25 Toronto police board head stepping down Jun 12 2015 VANCOUVER - The Crown will not appeal a decision granting escorted community outings to a mentally ill British Columbia man who murdered his three children. Page 3 Jun 14 2015 TORONTO - Ontario municipali- ties are keeping a close eye on provincial police contract nego- tiations to see if the province can whittle out years-of-service bo- nuses that communities say are becoming difficult to afford. Page 4 Jun 15 2015 EDMONTON - Edmonton police haven’t been able to write as many traffic fines this year due to an increase in calls for service. Jun 18 2015 TORONTO - The long-serving chair of to the board. But he decided “the time has Page 5 Toronto’s police oversight board will come to move on,” he said Thursday in a pre- Jun 15 2015 step down at the end of July, partway pared speech. TORONTO - RCMP cadets will fi- through his term. According to a source, Mr. Mukherjee in- nally receive training in the use of Alok Mukherjee, who joined the board in formed the mayor only on Wednesday evening carbine rifles and active shooter 2004 and steered it through controversies over that he planned to resign the next morning. situations at the RCMP Training the G20 conference, rising police costs and The source said that Andy Pringle, a Academy “Depot” located in Re- carding, announced his resignation at today’s friend and former chief of staff to Mayor gina, Global News has learned. meeting of the Toronto Police Services Board. John Tory, will step in as interim chair, as As recently as last month, he told The mandated under the Ontario Police Services Page 6 Globe and Mail that he planned to serve the Act, but has no plans to stay on in the role for remaining year of his provincial appointment the long-term. Jun 16 2015 PEEL - Peel Regional Police Chief Jennifer Evans says she welcomes the province’s an- nouncement that it will introduce standardized procedures for “carding”. Page 8 Still, Mr. Pringle - whose seat on the After growing friction with the police practice,” he said. board has expired and is up for renewal - has union and former police chief Bill Blair, Mr. “Codiac is a desirable detachment and applied for reappointment, the source said. Mukherjee had told Mayor Tory last year he we get calls every week from members That appointment must be confirmed by the would step aside once a new chief was se- wanting to come here to live and work in city’s civic appointments committee next lected. Mark Saunders succeeded Mr. Blair our community.” week, and city council as early as next month. as police chief in April. He said carbine racks have arrived at the Mr. Pringle, who joined the board in the In January, the new board voted 6-1 to Codiac detachment and are being installed in fall of 2011, raised money for Mr. Tory’s give Mr. Mukherjee another one-year term, police cars. mayoral campaign and worked for the mayor including a vote in his favour by Mr. Tory. At “A number are being installed now when he was leader of the Ontario Progres- the same time, the board voted unanimously and by the end of this week a majority of sive Conservative Party. to appoint Mr. Pringle to the role of vice- our cars will have carbine racks. As the The businessman came under fire in the chair, though officially, his term had expired. racks arrive they are being installed with fall of 2013 when Councillor Doug Ford re- Council’s Civic Appointments Committee the priority being our marked patrol cars,” vealed that Mr. Pringle had taken then-police has been in the process this month of decid- Beauchesne said. chief Bill Blair on a road trip to New Brun- ing whether to renew it. “Training of our members on the car- swick the year before to go salmon fishing. Much of Mr. Mukherjee’s final year bines is ongoing and the members identified Councillor Shelley Carroll, also a mem- heading the board was dominated by a war of for the next round of training courses know ber of the police board, told The Globe that attrition with then-chief Bill Blair after years exactly when they are scheduled to attend.” she learned this morning of Mr. Mukherjee’s of problems that began during preparation for He refused to say how many carbines resignation and the suggestions that Mr. the G20 in the summer of 2010. have arrived at the detachment so far. Pringle would succeed him. Things nearly boiled over last December “It’s information that could jeopardize However, she said there are many peo- after Mr. Mukherjee posted a controversial safety. Over the past year we have received ple who will help make the decision about note on his Facebook page about American a sufficient number of carbines at Codiac the new chair, and appointing Mr. Pringle police killings, leading the police union to to allow us to properly respond to high risk would likely raise concerns among many on demand his resignation. In the meantime, a calls for service.” City Council, who would need to approve the long-time debate over the issue of carding - (CBC News) choice. the widespread police practice of stopping “He has done some fine work on the and interviewing residents not suspected of Jun 11 2015 board, yes, but council still makes their de- a crime - was bringing Mr. Mukherjee into a CALGARY - Former NHL player Shel- cision in a bigger, broader way, and they’ll confrontation with Mr. Blair. don Kennedy says the sexual-abuse be looking at those bigger issues, such as is Mr. Mukherjee said in his resignation an- support centre that bears his name he too close to the mayor, or is he too much nouncement that carding is a “troubling” is- has been deluged with cases since of the old order, having been a friend of the sue the board will need to confront. opening more than two years ago. former chief, when we’re trying to make a “We have dedicated significant time and change with a new chief,” Ms. Carroll said. resources to this issue,” he said. “And while She said the $90,963-a-year job will like- we now await the direction that the province ly go to one of the citizen members of the has promised to provide, we must set out in board rather than a councillor. no uncertain terms our expectation of the “Toronto Police Service is now so large kind of policing we want to see in this com- that it really is a full-time job to be chair of munity.” the board,” she said. “... You’d very much be (Globe and Mail) looking at a citizen appointee. But you know, council is 44 people and they have a few weeks to think about this.” THURSDAY Kennedy, who brought to light sex JUNE 11, 2015 crimes by former junior hockey coach Graham James, says the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre has seen about 120 Jun 11 2015 cases a month. Codiac RCMP Supt. Paul Beauchesne “We’ve really become a specialized ser- spoke out Wednesday night to deny vice to really handle the worst of the worst ISSN 1704-3913 reports that officers in his detachment cases, if you may,’’ said Kennedy. Copyright 2015 are leaving in droves and it is taking a “The sexual assaults, the really bad Blue Line Magazine Inc. & The Canadian Press Permission to reprint may be obtained in advance from long time for carbines and the carbine child neglect cases, the physical abuse Access Copyright racks to be available to members. cases. Pretty much we take the 10 per cent Phone 1-800-893-5777 [email protected] Beauchesne said in a statement to the Co- of the really heavy-loaded cases, the cases Published weekly by Blue Line Magazine, Inc. as an executive news diac Regional Police authority that 20 mem- that consume the systems.’’ briefing service to Canada’s top level law enforcement personnel. bers have requested to be transferred out of the Most information supplied in this publication is from newswire The centre brings together police, social services. As such Blue Line Magazine does not accept responsibility detachment because of what happened on June workers, medical staff, psychologists and for the accuracy of articles as supplied. 4, 2014, when Justin Bourque shot and killed prosecutors under one roof to try to avoid All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, RCMP constables Douglas Larche, Dave Ross stored in an electronic database or transmitted in any form or by any making child victims constantly relive inci- means, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without and Fabrice Gevaudan in Moncton. dents of abuse. the prior permission of the publishers. One Year Subscriptions are $10500 (GST Included). Paid subscribers may make up to four (4) “Given the scope of the tragedy, that is He said about 68 per cent of the children copies of this publication for distribution within their organization. not unreasonable or even unexpected. Some brought in have suffered some sort of sexual of those requests have already been accom- abuse and are between four and 12 years old. GROUP PUBLISHER: Morley S. Lymburner modated while others are being worked on,” “These kids are presenting three or more PUBLISHER: Kathryn M. Lymburner B.A.- [email protected] a statement from Beauchesne said.

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