Bruce Macdonald
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Bruce Macdonald became a member of the Windsor Police Commission in April 1951, and served until his mandatory retirement in 1977.  He was the Commission’s Chair from 1960-1977.  Macdonald was also a member of the Sandwich West, Leamington and Amherstburg Police Commissions.  During a leave of absence from the judge’s bench between April 1962 and February 1964, Macdonald served as first chair of the newly established Ontario Police Commission. The commission acted as a standing commission of inquiry into all matters relating to the maintenance of law and order and as a body to oversee the training of police officers in Ontario.  During Macdonald’s term on the Ontario Police Commission, the Ontario Police College was established, the Ontario Provincial Police reorganized and a report on organized crime in Ontario was published.  Macdonald also served as president of the Association of Municipal Police Governing Authorities.

 

Bruce Macdonald

 

Archives photo: PC/6207

Bruce Macdonald for official use by the Ontario Police Commission, 1963.

Picketers during the Great Lakes Die Casting Strike

 

Archives photo: PC/6482

Picketers during the Great Lakes Die Casting Strike, 1953.

Unidentified man and Bruce Macdonald

 

Archives photo: PC/6506

Unidentified man and Bruce Macdonald holding a finger print diagram at the Michigan-Ontario Identification Conference,  October17, 1964.

Ontario Police Commission, with Chair Bruce Macdonald seated in the centre

 

Archives photo: PC/6511

Ontario Police Commission, with Chair Bruce Macdonald seated in the centre of the photo, (between 1962 and 1964.) The rest of the Commission is unidentified.

Bruce Macdonald presenting a plaque

Archives photo: PC/6540

Bruce Macdonald presenting a plaque to a Windsor Police.

 

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