Ottawa, Canada – Chief Peter Sloly, the chief of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) says he is committed to making significant and sustainable changes within OPS, especially for females.
Sloly’s comments come in the wake of a damning CBC Fifth Estate investigation into sexism in the OPS workplace, for which he declined an interview.
The program found that at least 14 women, both sworn officers and civilian employees, had officially reported being sexually abused or harassed by Ottawa police officers in only the past three years.
Sloly said there is “absolutely no tolerance for this going on in an organization” but that the service is “not going to be able to solve decades-old problems within a year or even several years.”
Sloly added, “It is a major priority for me. I take it very personally and I will do my very best throughout my entire tenure as chief of police to work with the chair, the board and all members of the service to move this forward.”
When asked why cases of sexual harassment and misconduct within the OPS have taken so long to resolve, Sloly said the intake process for complaints “can sometimes be clumsy and dealt with inappropriately and inconsistently.”
He added, “Investigations themselves can sometimes be lengthy or it’s not done in the right way. It can miss critical points from the victim’s standpoint.”
Last October, Sloly announced the hiring of the law firm Rubin Thomlinson LLP, which specializes in workplace sexual harassment investigations. Sloly said access to an independent investigator would encourage more women to feel safe in coming forward and reporting incidents.
Since their hiring, Rubin Thomlinson is actively investigating two allegations of sexual violence and fourteen other cases of workplace harassment.
Within the Province of Ontario, the overall level of public trust in policing has evidently been compromised by a system of police oversight which is regarded (in some circles) as being tepid, opaque and disingenuously performative in its punctiliousness: a pseudo system of quality assurance — a poser-pretender sort of Joke-Thing, perhaps? Nevertheless, fortuitous & lucky-charmed Ottawans are blessed with the public safety stewardship of an Ontarian exemplar of leadership excellence in policing: Ottawa Police Service Supremo Chief PETER SLOLY — a GREATER-GOOD-ends-justify-the-means, flexibly progressive, situational ethicist & selective outrage-ist phenom. OPS Chief PETER SLOLY is an Ontarian leading-by-example public safety supremo who is seemingly decidedly determined to bolster public trust in the Ottawa Police Service.
Evidently, Saint PETER the PRETENDER is 474 Elgin Street’s current Police-Leader-Iteration, amongst a succession OPS Chiefs, to have become afflicted with a florid case of Institutional-Courage-Deficit-Disorder. The Rule-of-Law-Undergirder & litigiously gifted tort warrior, Ottawa Top-Copper OPS ‘Chief Pete’ll-SLAPP-ya-good-if-only-he-could SLOLY’, would no doubt be most loathe to tender a poser-pretender counterfeit version of Ottawa Police Service ‘trustworthiness’ to an uninformed public. An uninformed public kept in the dark about heinous historic predatory police criminality, and ongoing Ottawa Police Service cover-up and corruption. Police corruption involving historic police deviance which was — and current police corruption which is — utterly antithetical to & discordant with, norms of earned trustworthiness.
Maybe Chief SLOLY could publicly embark upon the performance of a fearless OPS moral inventory by offering up an overdue mea culpa via a Truth & Reconciling interview with CBC Journo Mark Kelley https://twitter.com/cbcmarkkelley/status/1360249423721361416 . Perhaps such an interview could provide a forum for shedding light upon hush-hushed skeletons, firmly entombed within the OPS corporate history closet.
A concealed OPS corporate history encompassing a poisonous legacy: a legacy which, if left unchecked, will inevitably furnish corrupt-minded insiders whom ‘know where the bodies are buried’, with near never-ending leverage, affording them a de facto wide-ranging immunity from an array of potential sanctions.
As part of an honest, legitimate and authentic trustworthiness building exercise, perhaps Chief SLOLY could shed light upon how the passing of one-time Ottawa Chief of Police THOMAS FLANAGAN had properly and justly merited a moment of silence at an Ottawa Police Services Board meeting, while in marked contrast the passing (circa January 2018) of former Nepean Chief of Police GUS (Jimmy SaVillain) WERSCH had evidently merited nary a mention at an Ottawa Police Services Board meeting. Surely GUS WERSCH’s passing had warranted a 474 Elgin Street/ 245 Greenbank Road, Flags Lowered Half-mast, form of recognition?
In January of 2018, Ottawa’s then Pope of Policing — His Loquaciousness — OPS Chief CHARLES (Bernard-Francis-Law) BORDELEAU had not given the earthly departure of one-time Nepean Chief of Police GUS WERSCH, even the wee courtesy of a mere mention on Chucky B.’s Twitter feed. The self-same, seemingly publicly unmentionable GUS WERSCH who had previously been feted in June 2013 at the Nepean Museum — with then Chucky Bordeleau understrapper Deputy Chief JILL SKINNER honoring Mr. WERSCH with her very presence: https://twitter.com/JillMSkinner/status/350020849245499392 .
Moreover, as part of a public trust building exercise, perhaps OPS Chief PETER SLOLY could strive to publicly reveal if any Ottawa Police Service insurer disclosure obligation challenges have materialized: any problematic (liability insurance) contractual disclosure obligations, held by the Ottawa Police Service/ Ottawa Police Services Board/ City of Ottawa toward their insurers — in particular, any problematic disclosures which might perhaps shed a wee bit of light upon GUS (Jimmy SaVillain) WERSCH’s nefarious contribution to toxic OPS corporate liability.
Maybe as part of a public trust earning exercise, Chief PETER SLOLY could outline the scope and nature of one-time high ranking Freemason GUS (Jimmy SaVillain) WERSCH’s affiliation with one of GUS’s fellow-travelling predators: a one-time high-ranking Freemason & one-time Public Health Inspector — the late Danish immigrant Mr. VIGGO HANSEN. The late Monsieur VIGGO (SidneyCooke-ish) HANSEN had been a notorious Revol Road (Merivale Gardens: Nepean, ON) resident and un-brought to justice life-extinguisher, deep-freeze-thawer & BLACK RAPIDS CREEK skulker.
Perhaps as part of a public trust building exercise PETER SLOY might care to explicate to the public how and why the Nepean Police Force had enabled, and Nepean Chief of Police GUS WERSCH had actively protected VIGGO HANSEN: a known and reported (circa the 1970’s) neighborhood nonce (Merivale Gardens: Nepean, ON) / serial chomo-predator, whose repeated pedophelic criminality had remained unchecked by the (historic) Nepean Police Force, and subsequently further covered up by the contemporary Ottawa Police Service (initially during OPS Chief VERN WHITE’s tenure, and continuing with each succeeding OPS Chief up until the present day).
Maybe OPS Chief PETER SLOLY might care to shed light upon the matter of a neighborhood (Merivale Gardens: Nepean, ON) Child of Color having complained of having been sexually assaulted by VIGGO HANSEN, and Nepean Chief of Police GUS WERSCH having evidently shown up on scene to investigate. [Note GUS WERSCH had gang raped a child alongside Viggo Hansen: hence, then Nepean Chief of Police GUS WERSCH had perhaps been just a tad bit blackmailable by & beholden to, Monsieur VIGGO HANSEN]. Moreover, perhaps Chief PETER SLOLY — a champion of equity, respect and diversity — might wish to publicly articulate the matter of GUS WERSCH having evidently directed the Child of Color sexual assault victim into GUS WERSCH’s vehicle, and then GUS WERSCH having allegedly subsequently attempted (unsuccessfully) to terrorize the child victim into silence, by pointing a gun at the child.
[Albeit in a different context, a la Mount Cashel, there is a readily demonstrable precedent of a Canadian Chief of Police having obstructed justice and provided cover for a child sexual predator: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mount-cashel-st-thomas-moore-vancouver-college-brother-edward-english-1.5905801%5D.
In addition, as part of a genuine trust building exercise with victims of violence, perhaps the vocation-minded anti-careerist Chief SLOLY-the-SERVER & PROTECTOR, could explain how BUT FOR Nepean Chief of Police GUS (Jimmy SaVillain) WERSCH’s participation in — and facilitation of — organized child sexual abuse, the sexually sadistic serial offending Monsieur VIGGO (SidneyCooke-ish) HANSEN would have been brought to justice in a timely fashion, and his offending trajectory would have been brought to a halt!
Time’s Up for the Ottawa Police Service. The OPS needs to upregulate its Institutional-Courage-Quotient and downregulate its Legerdemain-Dependency-Disorder. Chief SLOLY needs to muster the moral courage to fess-up to the fact that ongoing Ottawa Police Service ‘noble cause corruption’ largely renders void ab initio much of the existing public trust in the Ottawa Police Service. When such ‘trust’ is realized via deceitful/unlawful institutional transgressions of commission as well as by institutional lies of omission, much of such public ‘trust’ in the Ottawa Police Service has in considerable measure been acquired via a burnished, VexingVideos-TamperedWith, criminally whitewashed MISrepresentation of the Ottawa Police Service. A MISrepresentation which has been tendered to the public by a succession of, ‘bread and circus’ conjuring, institutional gaslighting/ institutional-betrayal-trauma-perpetrating, Ottawa Police Service Chiefs of Police: Chief VERNON (the Blanket) WHITEwash, Chief CHARLES (Bernard Francis Law) BORDELEAU and none other than the pseudo iconoclast his-self — Chief PETER (McNo-ShortCuts) SLOLY.
If PETER SLOLY harbors a hankering to fortify his moral compass, then perhaps Chief SLOLY could draw strength from the work of a one-time Chief of The Criminal Intelligence Services for the Netherlands, Mr. Klaas Langendoen. Klaas Langendoen had demonstrated exceptional moral courage through his steadfast efforts to expose a nexus between: (i) the cover-up of organized child sexual abuse; (ii)intelligence operations involving pedophelic blackmail; and (iii) elite criminality/high level corruption — https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/listening-victims-child-sex-trafficking?page=3 .
Chief SLOLY can choose the arduous yet morally courageous path of upholding the rule of law, and in so doing honor his oath of office. In the alternative, Chief SLOLY can take the path of least resistance and opt for an ongoing suppression of evidence pertaining to historic VIP involved organized child sexual abuse within the National Capital Region: maybe in part animated by a belief that that in his ‘going along to get along’, Chief SLOLY’s ‘complicity of silence’ can perhaps catalyze an accelerated ascent of a sought-after progressive agenda? [In principle, a progressive agenda would be commendable: ideally such an agenda would vigorously support human rights & facilitate human flourishing].
OPS Chief SLOLY is at an ethical fork in the road: the path of honor (the path upholding his oath of office), restores order and leads to redemption; the path of artifice perpetuates corruption, entrenches institutional rot & subverts the rule of law. Perhaps the likes of Canadian human rights activist HEATHER MARSH (whose advocacy has been written about by renown Australian criminologist Dr. Michael Salter), and HEATHER MARSH’s fellow travelling child protection campaigners at https://twitter.com/OpDeathEaters , would be quite pleased if public officials such as Chief PETER SLOLY were willing to muster the moral force & and able to pluck up the courage, to competently serve and protect …… Lady Justice!