Should Chiefs stay neutral?

Many lefty elitists are voicing their opposition to Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to eliminate the long-gun registry – namely Top Cop Brass, university profs and their koolaid-drunk ducklings, lefty pols, Big Government Bureaucrats and Public Sector Top Dogs.

But while some of those folks have a perfect right to express their political viewpoints, the Chiefs of Police are in the tricky situation of trying to stay apolitical because police are expected to uphold legislated laws – not set them or unduly lobby against elected Members of Parliament with whom they have a difference of opinion.

Even Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair expressed a desire “not to wade too far into political waters.”

And so I have some concern about a column in today’s Kitchener Record by Waterloo Regional Police Chief Matt Torigian stating the following:

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