At its monthly open session meeting held at police headquarters earlier today, the North Bay Police Services Board announced that Ontario Provincial Police Deputy Commissioner W.S. (Scott) Tod has accepted the position of Deputy Chief of Police.
He will be sworn in to his new position with the North Bay Police Service at a change of command ceremony to be held on the morning of Friday, January 22nd, 2016.
“On behalf of the North Bay Police Services Board, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Deputy Commissioner Scott Tod to our team,” said Mr. Dennis O’Connor, Chair, North Bay Police Services Board in a release.
“With a wealth of policing experience serving with our friends at the Ontario Provincial Police, we believe he will provide a fresh new perspective to our operations and practices and that his leadership skills, innovative ideas and commitment to our community will be well-received by the public we serve.”
Tod, has been working as the OPP deputy commissioner, investigations and organized crime since 2010.
In that current role, Tod oversees specialized law enforcement services and criminal investigations including organized crime, intelligence, behavioural sciences, anti-terrorism, electronic crime and drug enforcement for the largest deployed police service in Ontario.
The incoming North Bay Deputy Chief also served as an investigator in the OPP anti-rackets branch before becoming deputy director and officer-in-charge of the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in North Bay.
“I am ecstatic, I am happy to return North Bay to work with the North Bay Police Service, it’s the community where I have lived and grown for 25 years with my family and I look forward to working with Chief Designate Shawn Devine,” said Tod.
Tod says his experience working with various community groups will be beneficial.
“I think the experience that I have had over the past 33 and a half years policing has some benefit, also the ability to collaborate with community partners, I like to think that I offer an opportunity for the collaboration to occur and more importantly to support the men and women of the North Bay Police Service is always important, making sure we have a healthy work force, making sure our work force is respected, by the leaders and that there is also that exchange of respect back from the members to the leaders,” he said.
