By working more co-operatively together, we believe we can mount a more effective response and do an even better job of disrupting and dismantling these gangs. |
I believe that over the next number of days we will have an opportunity to articulate more fully what the help is going to look like. |
I will not allow such action to take place and have today instructed my unit commanders and supervisors to take all appropriate action should members act inappropriately. |
It is absolutely critical to take immediate and significant action to apprehend the people responsible for this violence as quickly as possible, before additional innocent people are injured. |
No one should doubt my resolve to maintain discipline in this service. |
Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the current job action is an improper and abusive use of police powers, |
The investigation is very active and we're making very significant progress. I'm very confident we'll get to the bottom of this and bring the people responsible to justice. |
The law is very clear. We have extraordinary powers in policing, and the public endows us with those powers and all they ask is that we use them according to law and that discipline be maintained, ... And it's my responsibility to that. |
The police uniform and the firearm we carry are symbols of our legal authority, |
They were just concerned about it given what has taken place here. |
We know that these gangs are not limited to the city of Toronto; they move about freely, and they are mobile, |
When a child is so recklessly, wantonly put at risk, ... it demands an overwhelming response from all of us, |