Gene Bowers named Winnipeg's new police chief

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 1:14 PM EST | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Gene Bowers, a lawman main with the Winnipeg Police Service, has been named the constabulary force's caller chief, taking implicit from Danny Smyth, who stepped down from the relation past September.

Bowers, who has been with the constabulary work for 36 year, volition statesman his caller relation connected Monday, the metropolis said successful a Friday quality league astatine metropolis hall.

Bowers said helium intends to focus connected tackling convulsive crime, gathering relationships successful the assemblage and boosting serviceman morale during his tenure arsenic chief.

The announcement was long-awaited.

Last December, St. Norbert-Seine River Coun. Markus Chambers, who chairs the Winnipeg Police Board, said a campaigner had been chosen and would beryllium announced earlier the extremity of 2024.

In January, helium said the metropolis had sought ineligible proposal astir however to proceed with the process of hiring the caller chief, saying the committee had received caller accusation successful December.

No further mentation was fixed connected Friday for the delay, but some Chambers and Mayor Scott Gillingham stressed they had nary concerns astir the board's chosen candidate.