Two Ottawa mayoral candidates are calling for the Ottawa Police Services Board to delay hiring the new police chief until after the municipal election.
Voters head to the polls Monday to elect a new mayor and councillors, but the current term of council will continue into early November, as the new council won’t be sworn in until Nov. 15. The Ottawa Police Services Board is continuing in the process of hiring the next chief of police, despite the upcoming overturn of leadership at city hall.
“Mark Sutcliffe is the only major mayoral candidate who is comfortable with a new police chief being hired in the middle of the campaign. It is a conflict of interest that Councillor El-Chantiry is overseeing both the hiring of the new police chief and the Mark Sutcliffe campaign as a Co-Chair,” the letter says.“It is unfortunate that candidates in the election are trying to politicize the Police Board’s legitimate exercise of its independent authority,” he said in a statement to CTV News.
“It is obvious that the two candidates are not thinking about the community or the Police Service when they suggest that the hiring process should be delayed and undertaken in the next term of Council,” El-Chantiry wrote. “They are undermining the collective experience and expertise of the current Board and putting the stability of the Police Service further at risk.”
McKenney previously called on other mayoral candidates, including Sutcliffe, to join in on the call to delay the hiring of the new chief. “Catherine McKenney has an extensive history of using harmful, misleading rhetoric against police officers,” Samuel said, without citing any specific examples.
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