On Wednesday Edmonton Police Service has asked Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Service Mike Ellis to intervene in and investigate city council's latest appointments of Dan Jones and Renée Vaugeois to the Police Commission. On Thursday Ellis said he will lunch an inquiry into the growing acrimony amongst the Edmonton police, the commission that oversees it and city council. Late Thursday afternoon Dan Jones one of the new police commissioner appointees said he is stepping down from the post.

Reading the accounts of the past couple of days reminds me of kids squabbling on the playground, but this is more serious. On Thursday Minister Ellis said ongoing dysfunction between the three bodies “is negatively impacting public safety, public trust and the ability to deliver adequate and effective policing, putting public safety in Edmonton at risk.”