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APRIL
2002 Un système de justice plus
juste
Saviez-vous qu’un agent de police qui, après avoir subit un procès
et qui a été retrouvé coupable d’un acte suffisamment sérieux pour
mériter d’être congédié de ses fonctions, peut néanmoins, pendant
la période d’attente de son appel qui pourrait s’étendre sur
plusieurs mois, recevoir son plein salaire et ses bénéfices. Chose
extraordinaire, la loi ontarienne qui contrôle les services
policiers de la province ordonne et crée cette situation aberrante,
situation qui a pour effet de récompenser un malfaiteur et de
miner la réputation de nos gendarmes. La commission de services
policiers locale n’a pas d’autre choix que de continuer à verser
le salaire et les bénéfices. J’ai l’intention de soumettre une
résolution à la commission de services policiers afin que la
commission fasse la demande au Solliciteur général de la province
d’amender cette loi. La résolution demandera également l’appui de
l’association provinciale des commissions de services policiers
lors de leur réunion à Sudbury au mois de mai prochain.
Toward a Better Ambulance Service
Since your municipal government has taken over responsibility for
running the ambulance service, response times have fallen, in both
the rural and urban areas, such as to better the “gold” standard
that had been recommended to us. The principle area in which
improvement is now possible is in the area of the ambulance
dispatch function. The time that it takes to dispatch an ambulance
is not improving and is almost twice as long as our recommended
target. Not a good scenario when every minute counts. Dispatch
continues to be controlled by the provincial government. They have
refused all requests to integrate both functions (i.e. ambulance
service & ambulance dispatch). Nor is that all! The provincial
government has recently issued a call for proposals (an RFP - to
which the City may respond) that would entrench the status quo in
the method of operation and would make it very difficult to
introduce modern dispatch systems and up-to-date technology. The
City has filed an injunction asking the courts to halt this
procedure while evidence is heard regarding the wisdom of going
ahead with the RFP. All experts (even the provincial experts)
agree that the best way to ensure the most efficient and effective
system is to have an integrated system. This injunction approach
is difficult and unusual but the City simply had no option
remaining to it. We are talking about saving lives after all!
You can communicate with me at (please include a telephone
number):
City of Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa ON K1P 1J1
Tel: 580-2483, Fax: 580-2523
e-mail:
jacques.legendre@city.ottawa.on.ca
Web Site:
www.rideau-rockcliffe.com
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