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Career Development

Welcome to the Career Development Section.  We provide and promote superior human resource services to enhance personal growth essential to excellence in policing.

Tenure is the mandatory rotation of personnel after a specified period of time in a tenure position. A Tenure Policy is now in place and is reviewed regularly in order to ensure our program remains current and in keeping with our Organization’s high quality of service to our community.  These reviews also allow for continued support of our membership in becoming experienced and well rounded.  Please make yourself familiar with the policy and new updates as they are posted.

Our team is led by S/Sgt Dan Longpre and our responsibilities consist of:

  • Promotion
  • Tenure
  • Succession Planning
  • Performance Management
  • UN Peacekeeping Mission

Tenure is the mandatory rotation of personnel after a specified period of time in a tenured position.   The desired outcome of the Tenure program at OPS is that it provides a greater number of opportunities for officers to gain operational experience, while increasing the officer experience on patrol.  Tenure creates a more fluid organization that addresses staff movement with increased fairness, openness, objectivity and transparency while increasing our ability to get the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

By leading a successful Tenure program, our team strives to support the organization in following our mission and values and providing a high quality of service to the community, while continuing to supporting our member’s growth and career progression.

Current Tenure postings are available online. The internal password is provided to all members in the 2012 Annual Tenure Update and will be bring you to a table listing all current internal Tenure positions which have been recently posted.    (User name and internal password are the same).  Applications for these positions will be accepted from internal OPS sworn members only.  Please note the closing date for application.  If you are an eligible OPS sworn member and you are interested in any of the postings, please contact Kendra Campbell, Career Management Specialist at ext. 5001, or S/Sgt Dan Longpre, Career Development at ext. 5113 for more information.