by C. Gwendolyn Landolt. November 12, 1013.
The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) recently released a set of guidelines for police forces in Ontario, for carrying out its dealings with the LGBTQ Community. The principal investigator of this report is a gay man working in the legal profession. He received input for these guidelines from 15 homosexual organizations and 16 provincial police associations.
It is necessary that everyone, including the LGBTQ Community, be treated fairly and equally by way of bias-free policing, in accordance with the resolution by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), adopted at its annual meeting in Vancouver, in August, 2004. The LGBTQ policing guidelines, if implemented, however, will provide special privileges and legal advantages to the LGBTQ Community and, as a result, will discriminate against all others. Some examples of the bias and discriminatory policies recommended in the guidelines include the following: (more...)
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