Police Services Board

The Windsor Police Service Board is the civilian body governing the Windsor Police Service. Sections 37-39 of the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 define the role and duties of the Board. The primary role of the Board is to ensure that adequate and effective policing is provided within the City of Windsor and the Town of Amherstburg.

Legislated Responsibilities

The Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 sets out many duties for the Board, including 11 duties of a municipal Police Service Board as set out in Section 37. These include:

• Responsibilities for policing, strategic planning and diversity planning to
  • Ensure the provision of adequate and effective policing;
  • Ensure that any police facilities used by the Board comply with any prescribed standards;
  • Prepare and adopt a diversity plan to ensure that the members of the police service reflect the diversity of the area subsection 37 (1);
• Responsibilities as an employer to:
  • Employ members of the police service;
  • Appoint members of the police service as police officers;
  • Recruit and appoint the Chief of Police and any Deputy Chief of Police and determine their remuneration and working conditions, taking their submissions into account;
  • Monitor the Chief of Police’s performance;
  • Conduct a review of the Chief of Police’s performance at least annually in accordance with the regulations made by the Minister, if any;
  • Monitor the Chief of Police’s handling of discipline within the police service; 
• Responsibilities for monitoring conflicts of interest to:
  • Monitor the Chief of Police’s decisions regarding the restrictions on secondary activities set out in Section 89 and review the reports from the Chief of Police on those decisions;
  • Perform such other duties as are assigned to it by or under this or any other Act, including any prescribed duties. 

The Board negotiates collective agreements and approves the capital and operating budgets.

150 Goyeau Street, PO Box 60

Windsor, ON   N9A 6J5

(519) 255-6700 Ext. 4445

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