Board chair says the role will help with policy development and responding to recommendations on how the board operates.
THUNDER BAY — The Thunder Bay Police Service Board will now start looking for its first executive director.
The board passed a motion to officially amend its staffing model to include a full-time board executive director position, to develop a job description for it and to start the recruitment and hiring process. “It's the board's choice to realize and recognize that we need more supports that we can currently get, and that we need to move forward on these recommendations and our work that we need to do,” Machado said.
The need for an executive director position was first identified in a 2018 report by late Sen. Murray Sinclair, who investigated the board on behalf of the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, finding that it was failing to provide proper civilian oversight of the local police force in the face of documented systemic racism against Indigenous people.
“The pressure on a municipality of 110 or thousand to sustain yet another quarter-million-dollar aspect to the service is something that we — we have to put this into the total perspective because that's incumbent from the board responsibility.” The board also heard that the civilian oversight board of the London Police Service recently made a similar hire to positive early results.
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