THUNDER BAY, Ont. — An impartial skilled panel is ready to launch suggestions to reform the Thunder Bay Police Service and the board overseeing it, following requires extra Indigenous illustration in prime positions.
The panel appointed by the Thunder Bay Police Services Board final yr to evaluate the tradition of each the pressure and board will launch its ultimate report immediately after consultations with neighborhood and police service members.
The report would be the newest in a collection of opinions that scrutinized policing within the northern Ontario metropolis, together with some which have discovered proof of systemic racism in the way it handles instances involving Indigenous individuals.
The panel has referred to as for extra Indigenous management throughout the police and board in an interim report that was launched in September.
It has stated pressing measures are wanted within the areas of chief choice, police board appointments and labour relations, and recommended the following chief needs to be Indigenous or one other particular person of color with police management expertise.
Veteran RCMP officer Darcy Fleury, a member of the Red River Metis, was appointed final month as the town’s new chief of police after Thunder Bay’s former police chief retired in January whereas below suspension.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed April 13, 2023.
