Status of Women committee  Actually it was a couple of years prior to that. To put it into perspective in terms of being more serious, he was having an ongoing relationship. He was married; she was married. She was married to another officer. It was an ongoing relationship. She had mental health issues t

Status of Women committee  Thank you. We are very proud of our organization.

Status of Women committee  We consider non-sexual harassment, like workplace harassment and bullying, to be the same thing. I'd have to really look closely at the wording to see how that works. A supervisor’s treating someone unfairly, treating some employees differently than others in a negative way, ma

Status of Women committee  I'm not aware of any. I know the chief superintendent in charge of our career development bureau sits on a chiefs of police human resources committee that meets nationally. The RCMP are a big part of that committee. They just met last week in Vancouver, actually. They discuss tre

Status of Women committee  I don't know the rationale. It was some years back. I can speak to two that happened more recently, but on those ones way back when, I think the thought process was, and arguably from a legal perspective, that to take away their pay may have cost some of them their mortgage. It m

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  It's what we call informal discipline. In other words there's a written warning, a verbal counselling session with a senior officer that this was wrong and the person shouldn't have done it, and don't do it again. That stays on their record for two years. If it's gone past that t

Status of Women committee  It is. They can apply and there can be a process to maybe have it removed 25 years after the fact. I'm not aware of that occurring, but I know the potential is there. It's interesting too because if you're a five-year officer and you're convicted of discreditable conduct, that wi

Status of Women committee  We're certainly trying. As a previous witness said, you try to set the example at the leadership level, then model the behaviour that you expect the rest of the organization to achieve. Some employees without a doubt would say we didn't do things right in some cases or would say

Status of Women committee  Yes, we do.

Status of Women committee  It is. From a management perspective, all we get from our employee assistance program—an external service provider hired by us to provide those services, psychological and counselling and different things—are statistical reports with no names. They have an obligation to tell us i

Status of Women committee  I don't have that figure, but about 20% of the OPP is female on the uniform side. About 60% of our civilian staff are females. Those jobs are more administrative, where there are steady days, weekends off, and not shift work. It includes lab assistance and a variety of other thin

Status of Women committee  Well, some of that is the self-disclosure issue. Do certain members, male or female, want to disclose their heritage or things that maybe aren't necessarily visible? We don't basically go and around and check boxes off, i.e., someone's of a certain colour or a certain religion. W

Status of Women committee  Yes. For the higher ranks, the commissioned officer rank, inspector up to commissioner, I don't have the number right in front of me. I did mention it earlier. It's in the material I provided to the clerk. I believe it's something like 14% versus 20% overall in the organization.