Intervening in the matter of a recent union non-confidence vote in the police chief calling for his resignation is up Halifax council, not the board , according to board chair Lindell Smith.
A majority of union members voted no confidence in Chief Dan Kinsella. The president of the Halifax Regional Police Association is calling on Kinsella to resign.
An internal vote within Atlantic Canada’s largest police force shows the majority of Halifax Regional Police members do not have confidence in their chief of police.
The president of the association that represents hundreds of police officers in the Halifax Regional Municipality says individual officers decide whether to pursue suspects following a high-speed chase that tore through a residential area in Fleming Heights, N.S., on Sunday.