Solicitor General
As head of the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General he was responsible for overseeing law-enforcement and public safety.
The solicitor General supervises the Ontario Provincial Police having approximately 5000 people with a budget in excess of $300 million. As the Solicitor General he was responsible for the creation and administering policies for a fire safety, municipal policing, private security, forensic services, pathology, coroners and emergency planning in Ontario.
His duties required the selection of key personnel for his personal staff and of the Ministry staff including the Deputy Minister, Chief Coroner, Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Directors of the Police and Fire Colleges.
After his appointment as Solicitor General he made an assessment of the Ministry’s corporate functions and caused to be developed innovations in managerial procedures, public liaison, human resources, equipment purchase procedures, educational upgrading all of which were researched, planned communicated and implemented successfully. Public liaison was revitalized through a, “crime prevention program” with police and community groups that were duplicated by revitalization in the fire safety and organ donor programs in the province.
During his tenure he successfully coordinated the emergency planning requirements of the 1983 C.P.R. train derailment in the Medonte Township where he was responsible as the emergency clean-up team leader bringing it to a safe conclusion which included financial subsidies, evacuation of thousands of citizens, transfer of dangerous chemicals and the de-briefing which ultimately produced the emergency plan legislation for Ontario.
When he completed his term as Solicitor General he had completed reorganization of the senior officers of the O.P.P. ; initiated reorganization of the managerial policy procedures; created an improvement plan for the ministry; commissioned the Webber Commission report on high-rise fires; legislated emergency planning; provided the police with improved safety holsters, improved fire safety regulations and equipment, created a committee to review police pursuit procedures; set up a committee to review missing children procedures; developed and re-formatted the O.P.P. telecommunications project under a new management control procedure; promoted national conferences on crime and fire prevention; appointed a Women’s Issues and French language coordinator within the ministry to name but a few of his innovations.
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