Police Service Board - Chatham-Kent (Municipality of)

Ministry

Solicitor General

Address

315 KING STREET WEST, P.O. BOX 640
CHATHAM
N7M5K8

Phone

(519) 358-6865

Fax

(519) 436-3204

Background

Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 1, Sched. 1, Section 31 Part IV, Municipal Policing and Police Service Boards (opens a new window)

Function

Police service board duties are outlined under section 37 (1):
a) ensure that adequate and effective policing is provided in the area for which it has policing responsibility as required by section 10;
b) employ members of the police service;
c) appoint members of the police service as police officers;
d) recruit and appoint the chief of police and any deputy chief of police and determine their remuneration and working conditions, taking their submissions into account;
e) prepare and adopt a diversity plan to ensure that the members of the police service reflect the diversity of the area for which the board has policing responsibility;
f) monitor the chief of police’s performance;
g) conduct a review of the chief of police’s performance at least annually in accordance with the regulations made by the Minister, if any;
h) monitor the chief of police’s decisions regarding the restrictions on secondary activities set out in section 89 and review the reports from the chief of police on those decisions;
i) monitor the chief of police’s handling of discipline within the police service;
j) ensure that any police facilities, including police lock-ups, used by the board comply with the prescribed standards, if any; and
k) perform such other duties as are assigned to it by or under this or any other Act, including any prescribed duties.

Membership

Composed of five members [s. 31 (4)] consisting of:

(a) the head of the municipal council or, if the head chooses not to be or is ineligible to be a member of the board, another member of the municipal council appointed by resolution of the municipality;

(b) one member of the municipal council appointed by resolution of the municipality;

(c) one person appointed by resolution of the municipality, who is neither a member of the municipal council nor an employee of the municipality; and

(d) two persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
 

Qualifications

Appointees to police service boards should be active members of their community with a general knowledge of police service boards duties and responsibilities and awareness of community safety issues and programs within their local community. 

Members appointed by the Province of Ontario must be residents of Ontario and cannot be a judge, justice of the peace, a member (past or present) of the municipal service, a current member of any other police service in Ontario, a former member of any other police service in Ontario unless they have ceased to be a member for at least one year, a special constable or a First Nation Officer, a person who practises criminal law as a defence counsel or as a prosecutor, a director, officer or employee of a prescribed policing provider or any other prescribed person

Term

Members appointed by the Province of Ontario will serve at the pleasure of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Meetings

Police service boards meet a minimum of four meetings each year - section 43 (1).

Remuneration

All members of the board are remunerated by the Municipal Council.

Appointments & Vacancies