Who We Are

The Military Police Complaints Commission currently consists of Chairperson Glenn Stannard and supporting staff. There are also two part time members appointed by Governor in Council; Roy Berlinquette of Ottawa, Ontario, as well as Louis Bélanger of Sillery, Quebec. The Executive Committee of the Commission is composed of the Chair, his Chief of Staff and the General Counsel. You can find the list of key staff and how to reach them on the "Contact Us" page of this website.

Glenn Stannard
Chairperson

Mr. Glenn Stannard was appointed as Chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission for a period of one year.

Born, raised and educated in Windsor, Ontario, Mr. Stannard has served with its city police service for 37 years. During this time, he was promoted through the ranks and has worked in all divisions of the service. In August 1995, Mr. Stannard was promoted to Deputy Chief of Police, Administration. His dedication to the city and its citizen was recognized in 1999 with his appointment as its Chief of Police. Mr. Stannard is also a Past President of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. In 2003, he was invested into the Order of Merit of the Police Forces by the Governor General and received the Queen's Jubilee Award in 2005.

During his 9 years as Chief of Police with the Windsor Police Service, he had a legislative responsibility under the Police Service Act of Ontario (PSA) to oversee, administer and be responsible for the Public Complaints Process. Responsibilities included the oversight of the Professional Standards Branch that handled the receiving, processing, investigating and resolution of all public complaints against Windsor Police officers covered under PSA. Additional duties included addressing appeals returned by the civilian oversight body, the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services.

Mr. Stannard was also a prosecutor and hearings officer under the authority of the Police Services Act. This adjudicative responsibility dealt with police act charges against police officers under the PSA.

Roy V. Berlinquette
MPCC Member

Roy V. Berlinquette, a recognized team builder with 36 years of public service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) emerged from an entry-level position to senior executive levels in corporate, operational and administrative areas to Deputy Commissioner of the North West Region.

Mr. Berlinquette has acquired a wealth of knowledge and experience in his numerous years of dealing with government officials at Municipal, Provincial and Federal levels as well as positive relations at the international level.

His recent accomplishments include being a six year member of the Office of the Oversight Commission on the Reform of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and researcher and co-author of the Jerusalem Old City Security Initiative. He is principal of a consulting company specializing in risk management, comptrollership and investigations in Ottawa.

Louis Bélanger
MPCC Member

Louis Bélanger is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Quebec City. From 2000 to 2005, Professor Bélanger was the Director of Université Laval’s Quebec Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI).

He is the author of numerous publications on Canadian foreign policy, comparative foreign and trade policy, inter-American cooperation, and the politics of secession. In 1998, he was guest editorialist for international affairs for the newspaper Le Devoir.

He has also been founding President of the Canadian chapter of the International Studies Association (2001-2002) and Editor of the academic quarterly Études internationales (1998-2000). Professor Bélanger held visiting positions at Duke University (Durham, NC), at SciencePo-Paris (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales), at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, and, as a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar, at the PauléH. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University ). He is also a member of the Advisory Council on National Security. A graduate from Laval (Ph.D., 1996), Louis Bélanger also pursued Slavic Studies at the University of Ottawa.

All of the above may also be contacted through the Commission's main numbers:

Telephone: (613) 947-5625
Toll Free: 800 632-0566
Facsimile: (613) 947-5713
Toll Free: 1 877 947-5713
e-mail inquiries: commission@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca
media inquiries: media@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca (613) 947-5668

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