Bruce Macdonald The Macdonald Papers ~ Police Commissions Letters of Correspondence | Index |
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. |
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Archives photo: PC/6207 Bruce Macdonald for official use by the
Ontario Police Commission, 1963. |
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Archives photo: PC/6482 Picketers during the
Great Lakes Die Casting Strike, 1953. |
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Archives photo: PC/6506 Unidentified man and Bruce
Macdonald holding a finger print diagram at the Michigan-Ontario Identification
Conference, October17, 1964. |
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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. |
Archives photo: PC/6540 Bruce Macdonald presenting a plaque to a Windsor Police. |