OPP DON"T WANT TO POLICE CUSTODY DISPUTE

I'm trying to get a handle on whether or not the tail is wagging the dog here. Since when does any police force decide precisely what their jurisdiction is? Isn't that both a political, geographic decision and or a legal one to be decided if necessary by the courts? In this case a judge had decided that it was both inappropriate and a conflict of interest for the Waterloo Regional Police to supervise a custody dispute involving one of their own members hence the decision to have the OPP do the monitoring and supervision when required.

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "OPP appeal policing custody dispute". It turns out that the OPP are so adamant against being involved with this case that they are going to court to overturn the judge's decision and send supervision of exchanges of the child between her parents back into the Waterloo Region Police's lap. To say that something is amiss here is an understatement. That "something amiss" statement is in regards to more than just the parents' inabilities to behave but also in regards to relations between Waterloo's finest and the OPP. What exactly is going on here and what exactly are the public not being told?