Police Service Board

(a) ensure that adequate and effective policing is provided in the area for which it has policing responsibility as required by section 10;

(b) employ members of the police service;

(c) appoint members of the police service as police officers;

(d) recruit and appoint the chief of police and any deputy chief of police and determine their remuneration and working conditions, taking their submissions into account;

(e) prepare and adopt a diversity plan to ensure that the members of the police service reflect the diversity of the area for which the board has policing responsibility;

(f) monitor the chief of police’s performance;

(g) conduct a review of the chief of police’s performance at least annually in accordance with the regulations made by the Minister, if any;

(h) monitor the chief of police’s decisions regarding the restrictions on secondary activities set out in section 89 and review the reports from the chief of police on those decisions;

(i) monitor the chief of police’s handling of discipline within the police service;

(j) ensure that any police facilities, including police lock-ups, used by the board comply with the prescribed standards, if any; and

(k) perform such other duties as are assigned to it by or under this or any other Act, including any prescribed duties. 

Members of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Board are appointed using the process identified in the Community Safety and Policing Act. 

For information regarding appointment by resolution of Council, contact:

The City of Sault Ste. Marie 
99 Foster Drive
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
P6A 5X6

City Clerk's Office Phone: 705-759-5388
City Clerk's Office Email: cityclerk@cityssm.on.ca

Click here to learn more.

For information regarding appointment by the Lieutenant Governor in Council contact:

The Ministry of the Solicitor General
George Drew Building
25 Grosvenor Street
Toronto, ON
M7A 1Y6
Phone: (416) 314-3104
Online Application Form

Complaint about the Chief or Deputy Chief

The CSPA introduced new legislation for Boards to receive complaints about the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police.

If you would like to submit a complaint about either of these positions to the Board, please click here.

Complaint about the Police Service Board or General Police Organization Performance 

The Inspector General of Policing is a new policing oversight body under Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 (CSPA). The Inspector General is responsible for ensuring policing is delivered adequately and effectively across Ontario and that police board members are complying with the Code of Conduct. The Inspector General exercises independent compliance oversight focused on ensuring police services, police service boards and board members, and special constable employers are complying with requirements under the CSPA for policing and police governance.

The Inspector General of Policing is supported by the Inspectorate of Policing, a new organization comprised of professionals that are dedicated to driving improved performance in Ontario policing and police governance. Members of the public can file complaints with the Inspector General concerning adequate and effective police service delivery, or allegations of police board member misconduct through their website: www.iopontario.ca.

To contact the board, please email Lisa Hodgson, Board Administrator, at l.hodgson@ssmps.org.