Edmonton Police Service chief Dale McFee announces retirement

After 5 years connected the job, Edmonton Police Service main Dale McFee has announced his retirement.

McFee volition discontinue effectual Feb. 21, 2025, according to a Wednesday quality merchandise from the Edmonton Police Commission.

McFee was sworn successful arsenic Edmonton’s 23rd main of police connected Feb. 1, 2019.

In the coming months, the committee said it volition find the hiring process to prime a caller chief.

“The committee acknowledgment main Dale McFee for his dedication, commitment, and galore contributions to the EPS and policing successful Edmonton,” said a connection from seat John McDougall. “Dale transformed our city’s constabulary work into an enactment focused connected innovation and delivering policing arsenic an outcome-based nationalist work driven by assemblage information and well-being.

The committee said it hired McFee to pb and alteration the constabulary work to go afloat committed to innovation, collaboration, partnerships, assemblage approaches, and to gathering systems that could leverage alternatives to the justness system, wherever harmless and appropriate.

McFee thanked Edmonton for the accidental to pb the constabulary force.

“Thank you to the committee who acceptable the imaginativeness we person delivered connected and fought with america done immoderate tumultuous times. Together we person been impatient for progress, but steadfast successful a shared content astir the EPS and the assemblage we serve. This enactment was indispensable successful allowing america to bash our captious work,” McFee said.

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McFee was the erstwhile main of constabulary successful Prince Albert, Sask., and the erstwhile president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. He has besides served arsenic the lawman curate of Corrections and Policing successful Saskatchewan.

McFee replaced erstwhile constabulary main Rod Knecht, who served from 2011 to 2019.

The EPS said it volition big a media availability pursuing the commission’s nationalist gathering connected Thursday.

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