News Flash: 1) Waterloo Regional Police Force male members: the powers to be most likely did not decades ago introduce female police officers for either your sexual gratification or for your sexual fantasies ................................................. 2) There are both publicly accepted rules and norms of behaviour AS WELL AS laws clearly defining various forms of harassment including sexual harassment. ........................................................................................................... 3) Neither Police Forces nor other employers are exempt from those laws and rules even when the majority of employees are male and some of them are fundamentally stupid. ................................................................................................................ Officer Angie Rivers is being congratulated for her persistence, insistence and determination to insist upon her right and others to work in an already difficult and sometimes unsafe environment without fear of discrimination, harassment and or assault by her own colleagues and co-workers. Today's Waterloo Region Record carries a story written by Terry Pender titled "Sergeant docked 39 hours' pay for harassment". The now seven year process of getting justice and fair treatment by the Waterloo Region Police Force continues on with an arbitration hearing currently underway. The entire lengthy, disjointed and cumbersome process has included Police Service investigations, Notices of Discipline, court proceedings for an attempted class action lawsuit as well as the current ongoing grievance procedure arbitration hearing. .......................................... Based upon my own life experiences it is clear to me that the description of the entire police internal investigation and discipline process indicates it has been long perverted by privilege, bias, discrimination and ignorance. No honest investigation of behaviours and facts within an organization needs to take seven years and counting. The entire purpose of dragging something like this out is to both discourage and defeat the complainant as well as to discourage other complainants from coming forward. It is essentially step one in the playbook for self-serving, dishonest and untruthful employers. Whether Angie Rivers wins or loses her arbitration case she has exposed Chief Larkin, senior police administrators, the Police Services Board and quite frankly Waterloo Regional Council (barely at arms length away) as being complicit cowards unwilling and unable to do the obvious right thing for fear of offending those in the wrong. Shame on the pack of them. Will every citizen in Waterloo Region commend her? No only those who are honest, thoughtful and pay close attention to both current events and to life around them.
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Many other female officers were a part of the class action lawsuit that was dismissed by our local courts. Dismissed possibly in my opinion due to "home cooking" (i.e. bias). The court claimed that there were other venues for justice that these officers should have taken such as Human Rights Commission, union grievance procedure etc.I am skeptical. I will name one local officer among the many who has stepped up and spoken truth to power and that is Kelly Donovan..
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