The Public order Emergency Commission has revealed the ugly internal battles afflicting the municipal police force.
Before long, the federal commission will deliver its verdict, but meantime, there are important lessons the city must learn from Sloly’s testimony, if we are to avoid a similar police failure in the future.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
However, the silver lining from the hearing — if there is such a thing — is the insight we gained into the internal dynamics of the Ottawa police. Sloly’s testimony, along with that of others such as acting chief Steve Bell, acting deputy chief Patricia Ferguson and former police board chair Diane Deans, showed a police force at war with itself long before the convoy protest.
Ferguson told the inquiry that the Ottawa Police Service experienced “significant change” from the moment Sloly was hired in 2019. She said “many experienced leaders” left the force because they were “unhappy” with Sloly’s leadership. The dye was cast then. The significance of what Supt. Robert Bernier told the inquiry may have been lost in the cacophony of testimony, but it is quite revealing.
Sloly of course, was hired to change a toxic police culture, and he met with stiff resistance. We remember the
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