Ontario’s new top cop named days after Ford’s friend withdraws from job onpol
Thomas Carrique, who has been named the new OPP commissioner, poses in this undated handout photo from York Regional Police.
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's government has announced a new provincial police commissioner, just five days after a friend of the premier's withdrew from the job. A news release today announces Thomas Carrique, currently the deputy chief for York Regional Police, as the new commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.withdrew after his appointment to the job touched off months of controversy and triggered an integrity commissioner investigation.
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