Fady Dagher to be SPVM chief
Contradicting recent news, Radio‑Canada has the scoop that Fady Dagher will be the new SPVM chief. Dagher has been chief of Longueuil police since 2017. La Presse has confirmed the story, tipping their hat to Radio‑Canada’s scoop.
The official announcement is to be made Thursday.
Update: Patrick Lagacé’s reaction is pretty positive.
Ian 21:17 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
As Ted Rutland notes,
“After two years of the SPVM winning unprecedented budget increases based on racist fearmongering, they’ve now got the perfect leader for winning even larger increases based on improving community relations (using very old ideas that will be celebrated as something new).
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Since it seems Fady Dagher is going to be the next director of the SPVM, reposting this piece on the Dagher/Longueuil model of policing. In short, the model involves hiring hundreds of cops to be social workers (with guns and without the training).”
https://pivot.quebec/2022/10/31/une-police-avant-gardiste/
DeWolf 00:31 on 2022-11-24 Permalink
This bit from the story in La Presse seems like the SPVM attitude in a nutshell:
« Ça tire beaucoup à Montréal ces temps-ci, ce n’est pas le temps de faire de la police communautaire. Il faudra être répressif durant un certain temps », a réagi un enquêteur sous le couvert de l’anonymat, car il n’est pas autorisé à parler aux médias.
Ian 12:05 on 2022-11-24 Permalink
At least it’s not clowns dressed like cops like they had “patrolling” the pedestrianized streets this summer