Thomas N. :
Chief Myron Demkiw says what we’re seeing right now inside Toronto Police is “painful and unsettling,” and that “corruption has no place in policing.” That sounds good. But words don’t matter if the same failures keep happening on your watch. Under his leadership, multiple serving officers have been charged in a major organized crime investigation. Not caught internally. Not stopped early. Exposed by another police service. When corruption reaches that level without being detected from within, that is a failure of oversight, supervision, and leadership at the very top.
Then look at the murder trial involving the death of Constable Jeffrey Northrup. The accused was acquitted after serious inconsistencies between police testimony and objective evidence were identified in court. Regardless of intent, that outcome damaged public confidence in police credibility in one of the most serious cases imaginable.
And then more recently, a veteran Toronto Police drug squad officer, Brian Sukhram, was arrested by Peel Regional Police after a dangerous impaired driving incident involving a pursuit and drugs. Again, another police service uncovering misconduct. These are not small issues. They’re not unrelated. And they’re not bad luck.
Toronto Police used to be considered a gold standard police service. Today, it’s a service constantly explaining itself. Explaining corruption investigations. Explaining credibility failures in court. Explaining why its own officers are being arrested.
That transformation does not happen under strong leadership. A police chief is not judged by press conferences after scandals explode. A chief is judged by whether those scandals happen in the first place. When this many serious failures pile up under one tenure, the issue is no longer individual misconduct. It’s leadership. And at this point, Chief Demkiw is no longer suitable to lead the Toronto Police Service.
2026-02-07 03:42:37