“This document sends a strong signal to our LGBTQ communities and to everyone in our police organizations, that police are determined to proactively address issues that are of importance to our LGBTQ citizens, their families, and their friends,” said Chief Paul Cook, president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP), in a press release.
However, Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition called the guidelines “pure propaganda designed to give the instruments of power to radical homosexual activists, so they can be used later on to punish those who disagree with their lifestyle.”
Gwen Landolt, lawyer and National Vice President of REAL Women Canada, said that Ontario police forces implementing the guidelines “will result in discrimination against all others who are not in the LGBTQ community.”
The 80-page document released Tuesday, titled “Best Practices in Policing and LGBTQ Communities in Ontario,” was overseen by OACP’s Diversity Committee over a two year period. The project’s lead researcher Kyle Kirkup, a “gay man” activist, lawyer, and criminal law scholar who “examines LGBTQ issues”, called the guidelines “the first document of its kind ever published in Canada, and we hope that it will serve as a model for other police organizations in Canada and internationally.” (more...)
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