Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Group plans lobby for minority rights Winnipeg free january 1985 9 the City and provincial govern ments face protest demonstrations if Winnipeg police dont go ahead with a recruiting drive hailed As an Opportunity to get More visible Minori ties on the were not going to Wade spokesman for the forum for the awareness of the minority said were a group of frustrated and angry were going to use every peaceful Means at our disposal to demand our constitutional the recruiting planned for next has fallen into limbo because the cites Board of commissioners has proposed cutting 11 new staff positions from the police departments 19851986 operating Bud police officials have said the department has about 16 or 17 vacant including the 11 deleted from the preliminary they say a recruit class cannot be run with five or six noting police chief Herb Ste phen and mayor Bill Norrie Are committed to hiring members of visible minorities for the depart Williams said the Board of commissioners should restore the 11 police positions to the were not concerned about the fiscal restraints they he we Are concerned the cutbacks seem to be in the areas where minorities would be Given equal Opportunity in the if the commissioners cant be sensitive to the needs of the City and the ethnic needs of the All of the commissioners should be its As simple As he said the City should find other areas of restraint or pressure the province for More Williams also said if the City can not afford to implement equal oppor Unity then its Equa lop port Unity office is a waste of Money and should be Williams said Fame will lobby City councillors to have the police positions if that is he the group plans to demonstrate or stage siting in the offices of the commis the attorney general and the minister of Williams said Fame would recommend Community activists Stab jail investigation probed ombudsman to examine inmates sex allegations Williams demonstrations Lish a National ethnic political Alli to fight for the rights of visible the Alliance would run candidates for elected political he he also said Fame would continue to lobby employment and Immi Gration minister Flora Macdonald to implement recommendations of a Royal commission headed by judge Rosalie Abella of the report recommended that employers under Federal jurisdiction should be required to set up pro Grams to give women and minorities a better crack at Job by David Roberts the Manitoba ombudsman of fice is looking into events which a heading Ley jail inmate says prompted him to attempt suicide earlier this a spokesman said yesterday ombudsman Gordon Earle acted on his own initiative without receiving a Robert tried to hang him self while in solitary confinement at the jail last Hills common Law Carol said the suicide attempt resulted from depression at treat ment Hill received from jail staff after making Public Selfo favors Barry assistant of buds said the inquiry will focus on the corrections departments handling of its investigation of alleged sexual impropriety by at least two heading Ley the couple had complained 10 that a counsellor told Thorn her husbands Chance of a Christmas pass would be enhanced if she had sex with another jail a corrections department investigation found insufficient evidence to City substantiate the but one counsellor was suspended after he admitted allowing the couple to have sex in his Tuckett said Earle decided Mon Day he would Check the allegations and the thoroughness of the corrections cooperative i phoned John Bock Assis Tant Deputy minister of corrections and advised him that we wanted to look into the Tuckett adding Bock was cooperative when told an investigator would be looking into the Bock has refused to speak to a free press reporter and has not returned repeated Telephone Calls Over the past two he denied any investigation was under Way when a reporter first inquired we did have something before he said at the an inmate complained about not getting a but there was nothing to Bock confirmed in a 11 interview that a counsellor had been adding an investigation was completed Bock said yesterday the ombudsman became involved at the request of the corrections Dur ing an interview on radio station Bock twice said the ombudsman inquiry came about because the corrections department asked for in this particular instance be cause of the extent of the Public and even though we were quite sure we had done a Good i Vestiga we also asked the ombudsman to come in and take a look to Check on our investigation to make sure that we we rent missing Bock Tuckett said it is not uncommon for the ombudsman to involve him self in an Issue on his own even without a he said the ombudsman office has asked for documentary reports of the corrections investigation and will interview the key people in the probe will take about two weeks and the ombudsman May or May not make recommendations after Tuckett Delmys major 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