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Are psychologists and or psychiatrists involved in the training of police staff and are there psychologists and or psychiatrists involved in the de-escalation of crisis situations?

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Community Policing

Good evening Panel, Chief Martin;thank you for the opportunity to converse with this panel this evening on the issues regarding Anti-black racism within the Durham Region. Let me 1st share a bit of my background with you for perspective. My family(myself, wife and son) moved to Canada from the Caribbean approximately 21 years ago and specifically the Durham region 19 years ago. My connections with Canada has been through one of this country's largest International Financial institutions with whom I had been employed for almost 28 years, 20 of which I served here in Canada having been given numerous opportunities…
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You Can Effect Change

During my time on the Regional Council, I always enjoyed my encounters with former Liberal MP for Whitby, Celina Caesar-Chavannes. I never had an opportunity to say how much I admired and respected Celina for stepping down from the Liberal Party after she described what was a “hostile” exchange with the Prime Minister. Listening to today's discussion, Celina spoke about a "toxic environment". Sometimes the tone about systemic racism and harassment is set at the top and it flows downstream. We may look south of the border but we have it here. Celina spoke of it happening right here in…