Police Chief Craig Ambrose says “what we have tried isn’t working”

Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference will hear from Craig Ambrose, Chief of Owen Sound Police Services, on the role of policing in solutions for small communities. His experience will inform his talk entitled “What we have tried isn’t working… so how do we try to balance our approach”

Craig Ambrose grew up, worked, and raised his family in rural Waterloo Region before moving to Grey County and being appointed Chief of Police in January 2019.  He started his policing career over 35 years ago with the Waterloo Regional Police Service.  He held progressively more responsible duties throughout Waterloo Region including assignments in general patrol, undercover work, drug enforcement, homicide, Professional Standards, public order, incident command and criminal intelligence. He gained valuable supervisory experience in all of those areas and culminated in running patrol operations for the city of Waterloo and the supervision of all investigative units as the Inspector and Acting Superintendent of the Investigative Services Division. 

Chief Ambrose sits on both the OACP Community Safety and Crime Prevention and CACP Information Communication and Technology committees. Aside from the daily activities of running a police service, the Chief also oversees the Owen Sound Emergency Communications Centre, a service that provides dispatch communications and IT support to over 60 police and fire services throughout Ontario.

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