PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTS TWO NEW POLICE COMMISSIONERS

Public safety minister Mike Ellis has appointed developer Mike Saunders and Stantec communications director Jessica Jacobs-Mino as police commissioners. Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee asked Ellis to look into the “increasingly dysfunctional” relationship between council, commission and police service and no doubt that is what eventually led to the appointment of the two new commissioners.

Mayor Amarjeet Sohi earlier said it is “very problematic” for oversight bodies when “people that they are supposed to oversee can lodge an investigation about them (with) the minister.”

The Alberta government gave itself the power in 2022 to appoint members to police commissions in Edmonton and Calgary.