Jaswal, a deputy chief with the Ottawa Police Service who was suspended in March 2020 for allegedly sexually harassing three female employees, has resigned from the force, CBC News has learned.
Council voted 15-9 to remove Diane Deans from the board at an extraordinary city council meeting, where two other councillors also resigned police board positions.
Ottawa police employees told an independent investigator that police workplace culture continues to penalize them for reporting their colleagues’ bad behaviour, that women are sexually objectified and that racialized officers are unfairly scrutinized for the same behaviour of their white counterparts.
The Ottawa Police Service is in need of a third deputy police chief because one of its current deputies has been suspended with pay for nearly one year, the chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board said on Monday.