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To do anything less talent is truly a waste. is an insult and encourages friction with that • Good common sense would tell the PSB that In the February edition of Blue Line Maga­ community. ifthey don't have an answer then they shou ld zine you received a snapshot of what the prov­ • Doing a chiefs job is not doing a sergeant's have a serious look at precedence. This fac­ ince of Ontario policing structure presently looks job. By the time a police officer takes on the tor alone would have told the PSB members like. Since thc publishing ofthis article Blue Line top job on the police service slhe is now in a they must treat the town chief with more re­ ha been inundated with comments and stories different realm completely. They are doing far spect and dignity than they presently had. of irregularities and a few injustices. more than just supervisingjunior officers. They In all this spaghetti plate they call policing in One incident that appears to fall within the are managing, and in some cases actually cre­ Ontario, it is understandable how everyone's head "injustice category" could al 0 fall within the "not ating, the personality of the agency and how can get confused and mixed up. But it shouldn't really thinking" category. It involves the amalga­ that personality relates to the community. To mean people can't keep their heads on straight. mation ofa city of90 police officers with a town of6 officers and ome surrounding rural town­ ship. ome bumps in the road cou ld be expected but by all appearances the newly appointed po­ lice services board (PSB) ha thrown in a few pot holes in an attempt to balance things out. The former chief of the 6-member police service is presently an "Acting" Sergeant with the newly formed police service and work out of the same office in U,e town of2,500 people where he once held one of the top rankingjobs in the community. To say the lea t, this appears to be a rather dramatic drop and certainly could not occur without a loss of self e teem by both the former chief and the town who thought so highly of him. It is also a dramatic slap in the face for a person who felt the move to amalga­ mation was good for the community and not for self gratification. I fthe town had decided to con­ vert to Provincial Policing there is no doubt the chief would have been better treated. Under a protocol accepted several year ago by a large nwnberofOntario police organizations, chie~ and deputy chiefs drawn into an amalga­ mation wiU, other police services, were to be af­ forded the rank of Inspector or above.