PIZZA SLINGING WARS! ANOTHER SCANDAL GRIPS THE WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE! CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CHARGES FLY!

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This Event Happened in WINNIPEG - MANITOBA - CANADA - POPULATION 650,000
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NOW IT IS PIZZA WARS FWEATURING - THE WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE! Well readers I thought I had heard it and seen it all! Bar brawls, a child being savagely beaten to a bleeding pulp while 2 police officers watch, a police officer openly handing off strategy materials in a court room to criminal defendents so they can defend themselves in that court room against charges! A handcuffed suspect been beaten, a child being made an orphan, J.J. Harper being shot by a cop causing the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry scandal enveloping the police, ethics courses being taught to police in mass, NOW we have PIZZA SLINGING WARS! The story has it that a police officer who has an ownership interest in a pizza parlor goes on some kind of bust against new owners of another same area pizza parlor to shut them down for not being properly licenced or so the story goes. Charges of conflict of interest are now flying in the media that this officer should have not participated in this bust because he has an obvious interest in the outcome. To most readers it is clear when you buy a business, you buy it all and that includes the rights and permits to operate. Not so it seems according to this brand of police work or maybe its bylaw enforcement? Chief of Police Jack Ewatski seems to recognize that all people are free to be parts of other interests as is their rights in law in Canada but is this police officer taking his rights a little to far by picking on his rivals while wearing his uniform to get rid of them in the pizza slinging business? What a turf war! Far out! It seems there is nothing too big or too small for police officers to get their hooks into, on the side. Perhaps it is time that the Police Chief should ask all officers to disclose their moonlighting other sides? It may not come as a shock but no surprise that police officers as are many other professionals may be involved in security companies, act as part time bar bouncers, be core area slum landlords and the word has it may even be involved in the local body rub parlor scenes! This all comes back to codes of conduct and ethics. It seems there isnt any! If the Chief of Police doesnt even answer correspondence sent to him on various issues he is written on and puts up his secretaries to do his work of silence and stonewalling, or surrounds himself with his lawyers to ensure he has another layer of bureaucracy to insulate him from the validly concerned public, what kind of message is he sending to the public and his officers under his command? The message is that - He has no ethics himself! And No amount of having it taught to him from a course will teach him anything if he does take steps to show now, that he is willing to both learn ethics now and unlearn the ethics he shows he does not have as a result of that training! Until he takes the first steps to deal with his own inadequacies, no one else will follow him no matter what courses he takes. People will look at him and them as nothing more than a continuation in window dressing. In any organization, how it reflects to anyone, is in its management, from the top down. Management sets the tone. If management has serious flaws, so does the rest of that organization reflecting it from the top down. The only way it can be repaired is from the top down. Perhaps our city fathers in their past hot pursuit of selecting a new Chief of Police after one stepped down in disgrace and scandal, still another one running away silently into early retirement claiming family and personal reasons, 2 years before his personal contract was up (no doubt after seeing the mess he took on and claiming life is too short for this crap), have made another poor selection? It seems they appointed a whimp with a lot of deficits! Perhaps it is time that not only an external agency to oversee the internal problems and reports to the public be created to take over from police internal affairs and the Provincial Law Enforcement Review Agency (LERA), but it should also start looking for a new police chief when this one finally bites it, not from the ranks of police but from the public in the form of a stern manager from the private sector who has the demonstrated capacity to be person of impeccable ethics, gutsy, a disciplinarian, a good just and stern manager to give direction to an organization of supposed professionals, fast becoming an irrelevant and scandal mired joke to the public.

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