The board will likely be hiring its first govt director to tackle the amount of labor
THUNDER — The Thunder Bay Police Companies Board is underneath inspection and it is simply one of many causes for the workload they are saying has made them the second busiest police board in Ontario, behind solely Toronto.
“I’m sure you’re aware that the inspector general has indicated we’re under inspection because we’re not moving as we should be moving and that’s my words. I’m not saying necessarily that’s what he’s saying, but there’s obviously some breakdown,” mentioned board chair Karen Machado.
“There’s more work than we have capacity for including with our current staffing structure. We also, myself and the vice chair, met with the inspector general when he was in here in December and had some dialogue and they recognize we are the second busiest board in the province of Ontario behind Toronto.”
measurement and capability points, she mentioned they’re solely a fraction of that service however nonetheless have as a lot work as they do.
“We have a lot of focus on us. We have a lot of work to do that we just don’t have the capacity to do,” mentioned Machado.
The board is creating a brand new place – govt director – to assist handle its workload going ahead.
“We have too much work. We want to do good. We want to make that progress. We want to build relationships, build that trust back and in order for us to do that and focus as a board, we need someone to lead us through that way and that’s what this position will do,” mentioned Machado.
The brand new full-time function will exchange the current place of board administrator.
Since they are going to nonetheless need to construct the place and job specs, submit it out, do interviews, make a proposal and do contract negotiations, mentioned Machado, they don’t count on to rent anybody till hopefully earlier than the opposite contract is over in presumably June or July.
“The salary they will get will be a half and then maybe minor overlap so that there’s some orientation and training,” mentioned Machado.
The board expects to obtain the inspector common’s report this yr, mentioned vice chair Denise Baxter.
She mentioned that she believes “evaluation is always a good thing, because it provides another opportunity for other sets of eyes to look at what you’re doing. Are you actually progressing along the best path? And so, it was actually very welcome news to hear that we were having someone take a close look at what we were doing.”
She mentioned she is most appreciative that it’s lining up with the implementation of the Group Security and Policing Act, which got here into impact in April 2024, and mentioned they’ve inspector Tom Gervais, who’s working with them fairly intently.
“I do think it will help set some direction, but I also think that we are on the right direction,” mentioned Baxter.
Baxter mentioned the matter will be coming earlier than the board subsequent month.
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