Bill Blair (police officer)
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Bill Blair COM MP |
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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada | |
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Assumed office December 2, 2015 Serving with Marco Mendicino |
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| Minister | Jody Wilson-Raybould |
| Preceded by |
Bob Dechert Robert Goguen |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Scarborough Southwest |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Dan Harris |
| Chief of the Toronto Police Service | |
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In office 6 April 2005 – 25 April 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mike Boyd |
| Succeeded by | Mark Saunders |
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William Sterling Blair 1954 (age 62–63) Scarborough, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Blair |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
William Sterling "Bill" Blair,COM MP (born 1954) is a Canadian politician and the current Member of Parliament representing the federal electoral district of Scarborough Southwest. He is also the current Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice. Before federal politics, he served as the chief of the Toronto Police Service from 2005 until his April 25, 2015 retirement. Prior to his time as chief, Blair had a three decade career in the service.
Blair was born in Scarborough, Ontario. Blair's father had served as a police officer for 39 years. Blair considered pursuing a degree in law or finance, when he initially enrolled at the University of Toronto Scarborough in the mid 1970s. Blair initially studied economics at the University of Toronto. He left to follow his ambition of being a police officer, but returned later and completed a Bachelor of Arts in economics and criminology.
Blair joined the Toronto Police Service while in university to make money and began taking courses on a part-time basis. Blair walked a beat near Regent Park and later worked as an undercover officer in Toronto's drug squad.
After Blair earned his bachelor's degree in criminology, he advanced his career in the police service in the late 1980s, taking part in drug busts involving the seizure of millions of dollars of cocaine. Chief David Boothby assigned Blair to improve the poor community relations between the officers of 51 Division, which patrolled Blair's old beat near Regent Park. Blair normalized police relations with the community by measures such as sending cops to read to kids in local elementary schools and engaging with local businesses and churches.
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