New OACP Board of Directors Announced Continued Strong Leadership From Ontario’s Police Leaders

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Media Release

New OACP Board of Directors Announced

Continued Strong Leadership From Ontario’s Police Leaders

For Immediate Release: June 15, 2023

(Kingston, ON) – The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) is pleased to announce its new Board of Directors for 2023-24. Along with new OACP President Chief Jim MacSween, OACP members at the association’s 2023 Annual Conference elected a new First Vice-President, three Vice-Presidents, and a Secretary-Treasurer. Members of the 2023-2024 OACP Board of Directors are:

Board Executive

• President: Chief Jim MacSween, York Regional Police
• Past-President: Chief Nishan Duraiappah, Peel Regional Police
• First Vice-President: Deputy Chief Roger Wilkie, Halton Regional Police Servic
• Vice-President: Chief Mark Crowell, Waterloo Regional Police Service
• Vice-President: Chief Mark Campbell, Strathroy-Caradoc Police Service
• Vice-President: Chief Tim Farquharson, Port Hope Police Service
• Secretary-Treasurer: Chief Frank Bergen, Hamilton Police Service
• Executive Director: Jeff McGuire, OACP

Directors

• Ontario Provincial Police Director: Commissioner Thomas Carrique & Ontario Director, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
• Toronto Police Service Director: Chief Myron Demkiw
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police Director (Acting): Chief Superintendent Jamie Zettler
• Indigenous Police Services Director: Chief Jeff Skye, Anishinabek Police Service
• Zone 1 Director: Chief Superintendent Bryan MacKillop, Ontario Provincial Police
• Zone 1A Director: Chief Hugh Stevenson, Sault Ste. Marie Police Service
• Zone 2 Director: Chief Mark MacGillivray, Smiths Falls Police Service
• Zone 3 Director: Chief Tim Farquharson, Port Hope Police Service
• Zone 4 Director: Superintendent David Hennick, Hamilton Police Service
• Zone 5 Director: Chief Gord Cobey, Guelph Police Service
• Zone 6 Director: Deputy Chief Trish McIntyre, London Police Service

The OACP is also pleased to nominate Chief Gary Conn of Chatham-Kent Police Service as its second Ontario Director for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police’s Board of Directors.

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