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Police chief transferred |
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Written by FRANK PEEBLES
Citizen staff
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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PRINCE GEORGE RCMPGARY GODWIN
The police chief told senior Mounties at the detachment Monday that he had obtained the position of superintendent in the Vancouver Criminal Operations department at RCMP E-Division headquarters.
Calls to Chambers were not returned, however The Citizen has also learned that his common-law wife Ann Bailey is leaving with him.
Chambers came under fire last year when civilian workers at the detachment complained of harassment and inappropriate language and behaviour.
RCMP conducted both an internal investigation and an informal code of conduct investigation into the matter.
In March, Chambers was ordered to write apologies to each complainant.
Chambers was ordered to undergo an operational guidance process, which is somewhat akin to counselling, and the matter will be placed on his personnel file and any other applicable files, provincial RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields said in a previous story. Shields added there will be no further discipline.
The relationship between Chambers and Bailey, the the city's top civilian employee at the local RCMP detachment, was termed a conflict of interest in a report commissioned by the City of Prince George. The city has not acted on the report.
Chambers said previously the reason he believes it hasn't been acted upon is because the report's author, lawyer Kitty Heller of K.J. Heller Law Corp. in Vancouver, does not understand the levels of professional hierarchy that separate him and Bailey.
Chambers also said city administrators were made aware of the relationship long ago and it has been scrutinized for any crossing of lines and none was found.
No one within the RCMP organization has disclosed if the transfer of Chambers has anything to do with the disciplinary events.
"It was his decision to go. He sees it as a career move," said Prince George RCMP spokesman Const. Gary Godwin. "It was a position he had been contemplating for some time. He has been here nine years: five years as the OIC (officer in charge) and the four years before that as Operations Officer. He has been the longest-serving superintendent in memory and my memory here goes back 23 years," Godwin said.
"He has between five and eight years of service left before typical optimum retirement, and that is a lot of time to pursue further positioning inside the force, but in the North there is only one rank higher than the one he has now, that would be chief superintendent, and that position is clearly filled by Chief Supt. Barry Clark at North District."
Godwin said Chambers long stay in the commanding position in Prince George, one of B.C.'s most complex and busy police forces, is prime background for the position he will now hold in Vancouver.
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