The tense connection amongst Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry and fired Stellarton Smco Magnet Chief Police Ambrose Heighton continued to be the focus of testimony throughout a police assessment board hearing Tuesday.
New Glasgow Police Chief Delaney Chisholm stated, through this testimony prior to the Nova Scotia Police Assessment Board seeking in the appeal of Heighton who was fired in 2008, that it was evident Heighton and Landry did not get along.
"There were some comments back and forth," he stated. "There have been some disruptions because of the comments that came out from time for you to time on both sides."
Heighton was fired in 2008 soon after six complaints had been lodged against him by the RCMP. The complaints, two of which have been filed by Landry, followed on the heels of a letter that Heighton says he received and passed on towards the Department of Justice. The letter alleges RCMP misconduct by nearby members. He said there have been quite a lot of incidents that added fuel to the fire among the two, such as the RCMP conducting a drug investigation in Stellarton without having informing Heighton, and Landry attending a meeting about conceivable regionalization among the municipal police units.
Chisholm added Landry had a private speak with him throughout the early summer time of 2007 about Heighton.
"We discussed Chief Heighton and a few from the things he was saying made me uncomfortable," Chisholm said. "He made a comment to me that, 'if Amby Heighton thinks he can take me on and win, he's got a different factor coming to him. I'm within a completely different league than him.'"
Chisholm testified that determined by his previous operating connection together with the former Stellarton Smco Magnet chief, he believes that Heighton would have signed the anonymous letter if he wrote it.
"It's my encounter that Chief Heighton is a straight shooter neodymium magnet suppliers and if he wants to address it, he will are available in and see you about it," he mentioned.
He mentioned he wasn't qualified to comment on irrespective of whether the language put to use inside the letter sounded like words Heighton would use.
Meanwhile, a police consultant together with the Department of Justice who received the anonymous letter from Heighton testified yesterday she by no means asked the former Stellarton police chief if he straight wrote the letter about RCMP misconduct.
"I assumed it by way of a course of conversation that he wrote the letter," said Sharon Mitchell. She said she was conscious of Rubber Magnet the tense relationship involving upper management in the municipal police as well as the RCMP and was within the course of action of possessing mediation put in place when the anonymous letter arrived from Heighton.