Yep - bring in the OPP
My patience is exhausted! A definition of a progressive is a person who takes progress one step at a time, A radical wants it all at once. Well what do you call a committee that argues the same ground constantly and never seems to progress? The Cobourg-Port Hope policing committee! PH wants to direct its own affairs, even in the face of a $6-7 million cost to bring their inadequate Police Service up to Provincial standards. Side question - how long is the Province going to allow the citizens of PH to be put at risk by subpar police standards?
Are the Cobourg pols to blame for not wanting to talk some more in the face of the interim PH Chief's subservience to his new political masters as opposed to a rational examination and discussion of a now wasted $50,000 study? There is enough blame to go around on this one, I am sure that the two Chief's of Police will continue to drink coffee and commiserate about the lack of political sense but it still comes down to the same old problem - Cobourg pushing too hard and taking their balls home with them when the game doesn't go their way and Port Hope playing the victim. How many times do we have to see this?
Bur back to the headline, If there is to be no progress let's bring in the OPP and quit throwing taxpayers money away.
Are the Cobourg pols to blame for not wanting to talk some more in the face of the interim PH Chief's subservience to his new political masters as opposed to a rational examination and discussion of a now wasted $50,000 study? There is enough blame to go around on this one, I am sure that the two Chief's of Police will continue to drink coffee and commiserate about the lack of political sense but it still comes down to the same old problem - Cobourg pushing too hard and taking their balls home with them when the game doesn't go their way and Port Hope playing the victim. How many times do we have to see this?
Bur back to the headline, If there is to be no progress let's bring in the OPP and quit throwing taxpayers money away.
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I do not harbour any reluctance to see either town or both policed by the OPP.
On the other hand, I am not animated against the local police. However, I do see that officers on these forces seem lack-lustre in their approach and that means they are not gaining in the "let's keep the local policing model" sweepstakes.
I feel cost will dictate that eventually the OPP will be in or some significant joint services effort will be in.
People are all nostalgic about their local boys until the burden on the tax part of their own wallet becomes onerous, which it already is, and obvious, which it does not seem to be to the majority as yet. But it's getting there.
Yep, bring in the O.P.P.
But not until they've finished their very important work in Caledonia, not until Fantino has all the helicopters he wants, not until Fantino's role in the new (and second) Metro Police corruption allegation (as discovered today by the CBC) has been fully investigated, not until we've heard from the O.P.P. officer from Woodbridge re the local jewell store robbery, not until we get through the Orillia HQ voice mail to find out how it is an O.P.P. officer drove his cruiser into Rice Lake answering a call, not until....not until....
Okay. Not until we stop paying for these godamned self-glorifying media-hound cowboys in the first place. Got it? We already HAVE the O.P.P. and we're stuck with them. Not only do we not need these any more of these dolts -we need LESS. WAY LESS. Like as in NO GODAMNED O.P.P. PERIOD -thank you very much. And...for services already not provided, how about giving us some (or all) of our money back?
The sheer inteligence-insulting stulidity of that Smokey The Bear nitwit Officer Cam Wooley, who The Media absolutely fawned over as if he actually knew anything and even though I can't recall a single one of his highway hair-raisers ever making it to court, should tell us all we need to know about the O.P.P.
My comment to this got posted to the wrong item, my mistake. It can be found in the post about climate change, next one up.
To re-state my opinion briefly, it is that I am looking for Delanty and Thompson to show some leadership and get their committee back to work. Surely, as mayors, it is their job to make this work despite the disagreements.
Maybe they need to hire a skilled mediator to help things along, but most of all, they need the will to proceed.
Deb, I actually liked the notion that Delanty and Thompson had a joint committee on the issue of climate change, even though I had never heard of it. I am disappointed to realize now that it does not exist.
Merklin, are you telling us that you live in the annexed part of town that is serviced by the OPP, not the Port Hope police?
No, I live in Ward 1 -downtown Port Hope. When I say we already pay for the O.P.P. I'm referring to the fact that the O.P.P. is a blanket provincial force and as such can police, arrest, spot check, investigate etc. anywhere in this province. So, if the O.P.P. wants to succeed in what is to me at least and obvious corporate takeover they'd better not be thinking of actually charging for it.
The OPP is a more professional force than either the Cobourg or Port Hope police services. Both forces have been allowed to become complacent.
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