Organization
Since December 12, 2007, former Deputy Chief Matt Torigian replaced retiring Chief of Police Larry Gravill. A position which Larry Gravill held since 1992. In 1991, to minimize the negativity associated with the word "force", the department changed its name from Waterloo Regional Police Force to Waterloo Regional Police Service.
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“The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”
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