Toronto’s Police Board Considering Fencing Law Abiding Citizens’ Rights for Law Breakers.

March 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Apparently in 2007 the Toronto Police or PSB agreed to a three year human rights and anti-racism project for policing activities.

Now the Provinces appointed chair of the Police Services Board Mr. Alok Mukherjee not satisfied with the rights of Sikh RCMP officers to wear the ceremonial head gear, now wants our Police Chief Bill Blair to draft procedures to “formalize procedures that protect human rights and ensure reasonable accommodation within and by the force.”

He further wants procedures that will spell out how to deal with requests for accommodation. His argument such as the rights of those charged with an offense to be permitted to bring a Sikh ceremonial dagger into a courtroom? How should religious dietary restrictions be handled for someone in custody? Can a witness demand to be interviewed by a different officer?

We already have an Ontario human Rights Code, which the Province has mandated by law that Toronto’s Police must adhere to, yet Mr. Mukherjee as chair of the Toronto PSB wants to establish duplication and unnecessary bureaucratic regulations of rules and procedures in Policing that CREATE a BARRIER to the existing rule of law.

We need more common sense, NOT MORE DUPLICATION of POLICIES or Codes.

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Peter is the CEO, Chairman and founder of Ellis Clarke one of the largest privately held strategy facilitation firms in the world and a leading global strategy consulting facilitator.