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RSS FeedsOntario`s police watchdog promised to look into the police suicide crisis. Almost three years later, they haven`t even started
(The Star Food)

 
 

11 january 2019 12:15:12

 
Ontario`s police watchdog promised to look into the police suicide crisis. Almost three years later, they haven`t even started
(The Star Food)
 


Three years after the suicide of a Toronto police officer prompted the province’s police watchdog to promise a systemic review of officer mental health, the review still hasn’t begun. The problem, according to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), is a lack of resources and the fact that two other systemic reviews are already underway. Back in 2016, director Gerry McNeilly said that a growing number of complaints he was hearing about police mental health issues signalled a pressing need to tackle the problem, province-wide. So one week after the suicide of a Toronto officer, McNeilly said he would employ a special tool of his office to launch a systemic review of officer mental health and suicides, examining police services across Ontario and making recommendations for change.“I think we’re setting up officers to fail,” McNeilly said in an interview in February 2016, saying he hoped his office would officially announce and launch the systemic review mid-year.In the years since, police officer suicides have continued, with a spike in 2018 prompting Ontario’s chief coroner Dirk Huyer to launch a review of nine deaths.Critics say that while they welcome that review, it has long been apparent that a detailed, provincial examination — such as the one committed to by the OIPRD — was warranted.Read more:Ontario police watchdog to check on mental-illness help for cops Ontario’s chief coroner launching panel to review suicides of nine police officersRetired Peel police officer countering mental health stigma among first responders with new peer-to-peer program“It’s a little too late for us, and it’s a little sad that it took this number of deaths for them to spring into action,” said Heidi Rogers, whose husband, Toronto police Sgt. Richard Rogers, died by suicide in 2014.When she complained to the OIPRD about the circumstances surrounding her husband’s death, which ...


 
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