Greater Sudbury Police Service Board

Section 37(1) of the Community Safety and Policing Act states that a Police Service Board shall:

(a) ensure that adequate and effective policing is provided in the area for which it has policing responsibility as required by section 10;

(b) employ members of the police service;

(c) appoint members of the police service as police officers;

(d) recruit and appoint the chief of police and any deputy chief of police and determine their remuneration and working conditions, taking their submissions into account;

(e) prepare and adopt a diversity plan to ensure that the members of the police service reflect the diversity of the area for which the board has policing responsibility;

(f) monitor the chief of police’s performance;

(g) conduct a review of the chief of police’s performance at least annually in accordance with the regulations made by the Minister, if any;

(h) monitor the chief of police’s decisions regarding the restrictions on secondary activities set out in section 89 and review the reports from the chief of police on those decisions;

(i) monitor the chief of police’s handling of discipline within the police service;

(j) ensure that any police facilities, including police lock-ups, used by the board comply with the prescribed standards, if any; and

(k) perform such other duties as are assigned to it by or under this or any other Act, including any prescribed duties.

Gerry Lougheed, Jr. — Chair

Chair Lougheed was appointed to the Police Service Board as a citizen representative by City Council on January 30, 2023. He served as Vice Chair from 2023-2024 and was elected Chair of the Board in January 2025. He previously served on the Board from 2011-2017 as a provincial appointee, serving as Chair from 2014-2015.

Gerry is a native of Sudbury. He was the chair of the former regulatory Board of Funeral Services for the province of Ontario. He has spoken at many funeral conference and workshops, being the first Canadian to be the keynote speaker for the National Funeral Directors of America Convention in Philadelphia.

Gerry is an active part of the Sudbury community. He founded the Northern Cancer Foundation, the Bereavement Foundation of Sudbury, the Finlandia Village SISU Foundation, the Sudbury Hospice Foundation, the St. Joseph’s Foundation, and the Rotary Club of Sudbury Sunrisers. He is also past chair of local hospital boards.

Shawn Poland — Vice Chair

Vice Chair Poland was appointed on May 25, 2023, by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario for a three-year term. Shawn is currently Vice President External Partnerships and Strategic Enrolment at Cambrian College where he oversees recruitment, marketing, communications, career services, alumni, development, and government relations activities. Shawn has worked in marketing, communications, and economic development.

He has been a competitive coach and volunteer in the community for over 30 years, supporting many organizations including Laurentian University, the Greater Sudbury Soccer Club, and Kivi Park. Along with his position on the Police Service Board, he is the 2^nd Vice Chair of the Greater Sudbury Development Corporation (GSDC) and has served on the board for many other organizations in Greater Sudbury.

Al Sizer — Member

Member Sizer was appointed on June 9, 2020, by City Council to serve as a member of the Police Service Board to replace Councillor René Lapierre. Prior to his time as a City Councillor Chair Sizer was a long-time employee of the City of Greater Sudbury, ending his career as manager of Cemetery Services.

He has served as Councillor for Ward 8 since June 2014. In his time with the Board Member Sizer served as Chair from 2021-2024 and has led several recruitment processes for the Board. Along with his duties on the Police Service Board he is Deputy Mayor, and sits on the Community & Emergency Services Committee, Operations Committee, Community Safety and Well-Being Advisory Panel, and Solid Waste Advisory Panel.

He has previously served on the Sudbury Airport Community Development Corporation Board, Board of Health for Public Health Sudbury and Districts, and the Greater Sudbury Public Library Board.

Paul Lefebvre — Member

Mayor Paul Lefebvre was appointed to the Board on November 29, 2022, in his capacity as head of City Council. Along with his duties on the Board and City Council, Mayor Lefebvre also serves on the Greater Sudbury Development Corporation.

Paul was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Sudbury in 2015 and served for six years, until 2021. During his time with the federal government, he sat on the Public Accounts and Official Languages Committees before being appointed Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Natural Resources.

He is an accomplished tax lawyer, and dedicated time as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission. He also taught international tax law at the University of Ottawa.

He served as past chair of the Sudbury Community Foundation, and the 2011 Canadian Francophone games, and as past Vice-President of l’Association de la presse francophone, and past president of Centre de Santé Communautaire.

He has served as the past president of the Sudbury District Law Association and United Way. A music and Theatre enthusiast, he is a founder, as well as past chair of the Jazz Sudbury Festival, and the past president of Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario.

A local business owner, hockey coach and outdoor enthusiast, he is married to Dr. Lyne Giroux, a dermatologist, and together they have three children.

Krista Fortier — Member

The Greater Sudbury Police Service Board is composed of five members who are appointed using the process identified in the Community Safety and Policing Act.

For information regarding appointment by resolution of Council contact:

The City of Greater Sudbury
200 Brady Street
Sudbury, ON
P3E 3L9

• Email: 311@greatersudbury.ca
  
• Local: 311
  
• Long Distance: 705-671-2489

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For information regarding appointment by the Lieutenant Governor in Council contact:

The Ministry of the Solicitor General
George Drew Building
25 Grosvenor Street
Toronto, ON
M7A 1Y6
Phone: 416-314-3104
Online Application Form

Complaint about the Chief or Deputy Chief

The CSPA introduced new legislation for Boards to receive complaints about the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police.

If you would like to submit a complaint about either of these positions to the Board, please email psb@gsps.ca.

Complaint about the Police Service Board or General Police Organization Performance

The Inspector General of Policing is a new policing oversight body under Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 (CSPA). The Inspector General is responsible for ensuring policing is delivered adequately and effectively across Ontario and that police board members are complying with the Code of Conduct. The Inspector General exercises independent compliance oversight focused on ensuring police services, police service boards and board members, and special constable employers are complying with requirements under the CSPA for policing and police governance.

The Inspector General of Policing is supported by the Inspectorate of Policing, a new organization comprised of professionals that are dedicated to driving improved performance in Ontario policing and police governance. Members of the public can file complaints with the Inspector General concerning adequate and effective police service delivery, or allegations of police board member misconduct through their website: www.iopontario.ca.

Pursuant to Section 13 of the Board's Governance By-Law, members of the public may make deputations to the Board at any public meeting. Citizens wishing to appear before the Board must advise the Board Administrator in writing providing an outline of the nature of the deputation at least seven (7) days prior to the commencement of the meeting. All deputants at the meeting shall only be heard upon the consent of the Board. The matter raised by the deputant must be in respect to any matter relating to policing under consideration by the Board or being raised for the Board’s consideration by such person.

Deputants shall be limited to a total of fifteen (15) minutes to address the Board, of which ten (10) minutes will be allotted to make a presentation to the Board, and the remaining five (5) minutes will be allotted to a question period. If there is a group of people wishing to address the Board with respect to a particular position on a particular issue, then the Board may determine that the group shall be represented by one (1) person or that the time limit shall be other than as stated above.

Members of the public who constitute the audience in the Boardroom during a meeting will maintain order and quiet and may not address the Board without the permission of the Chair.

The Chair may expel or exclude from any meeting any person who has engaged in improper conduct at the meeting. In the case of electronic meetings/attendance, such person shall have access to the meeting terminated at the discretion of Board staff and without warning to such person.