FROM NUMEROUS OFFICERS NOW A POLICE BOARD MEMBER INVESTIGATED

Just what exactly the hell is going on? As if our faith and confidence hasn't been eroded by essentially ongoing and neverending police misconduct, from minor to major, and now this? Bruce Tucker, president of the police association (ie. union) states "You don't want to speculate on things like this but it must be pretty significant for her to stand down.". Really? The standing down refers to her being ordered by the OCPC or Ontario Civilian police Commission not to attend the Police Board's July meeting. Meanwhile Councillor Tom Galloway the Police board Chair has stated "...it's clear we're not talking about any criminal activity here. It's a matter of a conversation that someone has complained about.". Councillor and Chair Galloway also stated that "the alleged comments were serious enough that they would be considered a breach of the board's code of conduct if proven true.". Wow a breach of the code of conduct. My personal experience with codes of conduct is that they are a wimpy way to rein someone in who treats people the same way they treat him. In other words they are subjective and often the guilty party throws out that accusation to take the heat off themselves.

O.K. let's reassess. The Police Board are a paper tiger. Always have been. The OCPC aren't exactly a household name known for their outstanding work in keeping cops or anyone else honest. The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) have been in and out of the media the last few years with one police misadventure after another. Currently since the G20 fiasco in Toronto there have been rumblings about the province actually giving Police Boards some authority and teeth. Meanwhile a middleaged female, former municipal politician says something to offend a cop. And she is being investigated for so doing. Wow she must have asked him something really awful like the size of his pensi(on) for example.

O.K. I admit I'm speculating here but does anybody else suspect that this is much ado about nothing? Is this a little tit for tat going on. Are these children who just can't get along in the sandbox or is there something amiss that the public needs to be aware of? Normally our authority figures are smart enough not to air petty grievances in public because it makes them all look ...well petty. Let's hope we actually find out what is really going on. All of this is in last Saturday's Waterloo Regional Record.