Police chief defends himself, force amid questions over mass shooting

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Hugh Stevenson says pilot project aimed at improving response to intimate partner violence is showing promising results — and he has no intention of stepping down as city's top cop, despite letter to the editor in The Sault Star that called for his...

Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Chief Hugh Stevenson says he will not step down from his position over the way his police service handled a 911 call made by one of the victims of last year's horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of four innocent people.

“Will the chief resign?” asked the author of the letter. “Other Ontario chiefs of police in municipalities across this province have either resigned, been forced to resign or been fired, for less incompetence and certainly less dead bodies.” Stevenson quickly shut down the idea of resigning from his job when asked by SooToday following a presentation on the IPV pilot project, which took place during Thursday's meeting of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Services Board.

Stevenson then proceeded to scrawl the words "fact check" on a notepad immediately after responding to the question.

 

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