Peter Sloly


Peter John M. Sloly, is a Canadian police officer who is Ottawa Chief of Police, and a former soccer player. He is the former deputy chief of the Toronto Police Service and was a member of the Toronto Police for 27 years. He is also a former soccer player who earned one cap for the Canadian national side in 1985. In 1987, he played for North York Rockets.
He attended McMaster University, and after retiring as a player became a police officer eventually rising to the position of deputy chief on 22 September 2009. In 2015, he was considered a serious candidate to succeed Bill Blair as Chief of Police but was passed over in favour of Mark Saunders.
In January 2016, Sloly gave a speech criticizing the size of the police budget as excessive, in which he said: "Until policing stops being focused and driven on that reactive enforcement model, it will continue to be exponentially costly." His comments were criticized by the Toronto Police Association and were viewed as a criticism of Chief Saunders. On 10 February 2016 it was announced that Sloly had resigned as deputy chief and that he had approached the Police Services Board several months prior with a request that he be released from his contract, which was to have ended in December 2017.
In August 2019, it was announced that he would become Chief of the Ottawa Police Service, effective 28 October 2019.

Education

Sloly graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from McMaster University in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration from York University's Schulich School of Business in 2004. Sloly also earned a Criminal Justice Certificate from the University of Virginia, an Incident Command System Certification from the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the Major City Chief's Police Executive Development Program, University of Toronto's Rotman Police Executive Leadership Program and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Early life

Sloly was born in Kingston, Jamaica and moved to Scarborough at the age of ten.

Personal life

Sloly lives in Toronto with his wife and two children; his daughter and son.
On 28 April 2016 Sloly was hired by Deloitte Canada to serve as a consultant handling risk and forensic practices projects.

Awards

In 2011, he was the recipient of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame's Brian Budd Award.

Honours