SPVM: appointment of 4 new deputy directors

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Martin Prud’homme

Éric Thibault

Wednesday, march 7, 2018 16:54

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The chief of POLICE, Martin Prud’homme, has found its four new assistants and entrusted to a woman the task of rectifying the situation to the internal affairs of the police.

The Journal has learned that Line Carbonneau, a former senior executive of the royal Canadian mounted police (RCMP), has been entrusted with the reins of the new professional standards division at the SPVM.

The retired of the federal police, has agreed a two-year contract in order to ensure the transition to the head of internal affairs, whose activities are paralyzed for nearly a year, but where one prepares to return to work.

2 women and 2 men

Another woman, Simonetta Barth, who already occupied the post of deputy director of the SPVM since last summer, has been reconfirmed in his functions. She will be responsible for the corporate services division.

Mr. Prud’homme has entrusted the direction of the force and of operations Dominic Harvey, the former boss of the Southern division of the police force.

The leader turned to his former organization, the Sûreté du Québec, there to recruit his new head of the investigation division.

Sylvain Caron, who had already accomplished this task to the SQ, has agreed to serve in this position over the next two years, as the deputy director Carbonneau.

The appointment of the four deputy directors has been endorsed by the executive committee of the City of Montreal on Wednesday.

Household and trust

In January, Martin Prud’homme had announced the abolition of the seven posts of deputy directors, reducing from 11 to four members of his bodyguard.

In addition, he had promised his troops that he would be “an effective team in which you will be able to have confidence” in the internal affairs, where he had himself identified the problems as “major” since his arrival last December.

All of the internal investigations that were the “police of the police” were assigned to a mixed team of members of the Sûreté du Québec and securities of municipal, last spring, at the revelations of our Bureau for the investigation of alleged cases of fabrication of evidence and rules of accounts with former members of the SPVM said they were victims.

The ex-boss of internal affairs, the inspector Costa Labs, account among the half-dozen high-ranking officers who have been suspended in the wake of this crisis.

Subsequently, an administrative investigation carried out by Me Michel Bouchard at the request of the minister of public Safety, Martin Coiteux, confirmed by “serious irregularities” in the internal affairs.

It is because of the many issues raised by mr. Bouchard, which saved the senior management, the minister Coiteux has suspended the chief Philippe Pitcher to be replaced by Martin Prud’homme before Christmas.