Police forces in northwestern Ontario have paid an estimated total of at least $3.4 million to 15 suspended officers since 2013, according to information revealed as part of a CBC News analysis of police services across the province.
Suspended police officers paid $3.4M from northwestern Ontario forces since 2013, part of $134M provincewide
"Everybody has their rights to a fair process and these processes take a long time to play out through the court system," Woods said. "These data confirm just what a huge problem and expense ongoing pay of officers who have been suspended for extended periods of time, many of which have been on sort of egregious accusations, in the province of Ontario," said Michael Kempa, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa.
Thunder Bay police Chief Darcy Fleury supports the position of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police about giving police chiefs more authority to suspend officers without pay. Karen Machado, chair of the Thunder Bay Police Service Board, says the board continues to work through the impacts of the Community Safety and Policing Act
There will be a "very small sliver" of new cases where chiefs will be able to suspend without pay, said McGuire.But Kempa said it's still a welcome improvement from the previous act and will save taxpayers money. He said the change should have happened when it was first proposed in 2018.
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