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Ontario court rules against former chief of police in Durham, ending a long-running battle over disciplinary matters Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail
An Ontario court has ruled that police chiefs must yield to reasonable decisions from provincially appointed administrators when it comes to power struggles over whether to discipline police officers.
A Jan. 25 ruling by a panel of Ontario Superior Court divisional judges probed the “unusual, if not unique, circumstances” within Durham Regional Police Service. And it serves to close a chapter on a series of internal legal clashes that gave rise to public allegations about a wider “crisis of confidence” within the force.