Cheap at half the price!

$200,000 plus for the privilege of changing Chiefs of police. Read here for the details of the settlement. However he, Gary Clement, is not to blame, Two successive Police Service Boards, One chaired by Arnold McCurdy and one chaired by Allan Robinson got us into these messes. The first one hired John Kay, a disaster and spendthrift and the other hired his replacement, none too well obviously. The second board, in the hiring process actually had two Chiefs on board at the same time because they, the hiring committee, lusted after Clement and hired a fellow and then chased Clement all the way to Ottawa, at the same time. Well, we paid and in the end a settlement to clean up the mess was the only way out.

The good that came out of this was that the PSB finally hired the guy they should have hired a decade earlier - Paul Sweet. Let's end the pretense and take away the 'acting' in "Acting Chief of Police" and get back into proper community policing at a reasonable cost. It can be done now that we have swept away the messes.