New Parking Enforcement Officers are being deployed to provide critical operational support and keep the city moving. “As Parking Enforcement Officers, you will become intimately familiar with the streets of Toronto and it’s 158 neighbourhoods and, during every shift, you will make judgment calls drawing from your training and your...

Three high school graduates were given a financial boost in pursuing their dream careers through a police-community parntership in 53 Division. A family member’s cancer diagnosis inspired bursary recipient Elisha Qaisar’s interest in health sciences. “I know how cancer affects families and I want to find a cure for the...

Over 150 students were welcomed to work with Toronto Police members over the summer as the year’s Youth In Policing Summer Initiative kicked off. “You are society’s future leaders, thinkers and change-makers and you can make a difference,” Chief Myron Demkiw told them on July 2 at the Police College....

Sources: (1) D. Draper –Annual Report of the Chief Constable of the City of Toronto for the Year 1939, Toronto: The Carswell Co Ltd City Printers, 1940. (2) Toronto Daily Star 1940-09-14, p.15 “Policemen Join Up and Stick to Blue” (30) Naval Service of Canada p.90-91; Toronto Daily Star 1942-01-10,...

Constable Matthew Scarlino is the historian for the Toronto Police Military Veterans Association Sources: H. Grasett – Annual Report of the Chief Constable of the City of Toronto, Nominal and Descriptive Roll of the Toronto Police Force. (1914, 1915, 1916, 1917,1918 and 1919 editions). Library and Archives Canada – Personnel...