Chief of Police Wendy Southall became the seventh Chief of Police in the history of the Niagara Regional Police Service on January 1, 2005.

Chief Southall started her policing career over 30 years ago as an officer with the Toronto Police Service.  She served in a number of areas, including Uniform Patrol, Morality Bureau, Mobile Support Unit and the Youth Crime Division.  She joined the Niagara Police Services Board in 1982 and since that time has been an Enforcement Officer and Issuer of Licences in charge of the Licencing Department.  In 1989, she was promoted to Administrator of the Police Services Board and worked directly for eight Board Chairs and numerous Board members.  She was appointed to the Niagara Regional Police Service as acting Chief Administrative Officer in February 2000 and promoted to Chief Administrative Officer in January 2001.  Chief Southall has been directly responsible for the operations of the Finance Unit, Fleet and Facilities Management, Human Resources including Recruiting Training and Career Development, Information Services and Police Records.

Chief Southall has completed the Police Executive Leadership Program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business and currently serves as a member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.  In 2006, she completed her Masters in Public Administration at the University of Western Ontario.


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Gary Beaulieu is a Deputy Chief in the 900 member Niagara Regional Police Service, which is located in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in the Province of Ontario, Canada. He has 30 years police experience and presently serves as Deputy Chief of Administrative Support Division.

The Niagara Regional Police Service is a municipal police agency, serving an urban and rural population of 420,000. The Niagara Region is located on the Niagara Peninsula and is composed of six cities and other smaller towns. The region is surrounded by water on three sides; the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara River that divides Niagara from New York State in the United States of America.

Deputy Chief Beaulieu was previously assigned to the Major Crime Unit in Headquarters, Detective Support Division as a Detective Sergeant. He was also assigned as an investigator with the Green Ribbon Task Force, which was formed to investigate the murders and sexually motivated crimes of sexual sadist Paul Bernardo and his accomplice spouse Karla Homolka from April 1992 to January 1996.

In 1997 he was assigned as primary investigator in the successful Traditional Organized Crime multi-jurisdictional homicide investigation into the gang-land executions of reputed mobsters John Papalia and Carmen Barillaro.

Deputy Chief Beaulieu has also served as Superintendent in Executive Services and Field Services, and Divisional Commander in Detective Support Division, where he was officer-in-charge of routine and multi-jurisdictional major case investigations. He was also assigned duties as Divisional Commander in 3 District (formerly 33 Division) Welland. Over the course of his police career he has also served in uniform patrol, as a detective assigned to the criminal intelligence unit, general assignments criminal investigation, and in the professional standards unit.

Deputy Chief Beaulieu is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Police Leadership program, and a graduate of the 183rd Session of the U. S. Department of Justice F. B. I. National Academy in Quantico Virginia U. S. A. He has completed a Police Administration Certificate program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Deputy Chief Beaulieu has presented the Bernardo case in the past, from his perspective as an investigator assigned to the multi-jurisdictional and multi-agency task force. The chronological summary and case overview will provide the audience with a full understanding of the complexities and challenges in this case, which many will recognize as being common to investigations of this form.

A government ordered judicial review of the Bernardo investigation resulted in completion of the Report of Mr. Justice Archie Campbell in June of 1996. The report of Mr. Justice Campbell and his recommendations have changed the course of Major Case investigation in the Province of Ontario, Canada.


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Guillermo Fuentes is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Niagara Regional Police Service, which is located in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Chief Administrative Officer Fuentes assumed his position with the Niagara Regional Police Service on November 19, 2007 and is directly responsible for the operations of Finance, Human Resources, Fleet and Facilities, Police Records, Communications, Project S.P.I.R.I.T. and Information and Technology Systems. 

Prior to this appointment, Chief Administrative Officer Fuentes was the Associate Director of Emergency Medical Services in Niagara, where he oversaw the areas of operations, quality assurance and technology. During this tenure, he was instrumental in the creation of a new dispatch centre that has been accepted as the model for the Province of Ontario. His career has also involved experience in strategic development and visioning for health care centres in the city of Montreal. His past medical services work has also exposed him to the establishment of communication centres, large-scale fleet and equipment automation and the introduction of scheduling software. 

In addition to his duties as Chief Administrative Officer, he is also a senior consultant with Fitch and Associates, which has taken him to various locations throughout the world to conduct studies including: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Miami, Florida, Houston, Texas, British Columbia and the York Region. 

Chief Administrative Officer Fuentes has received a wide variety of post-secondary education from universities in both Canada and the United States and has lectured on numerous topics including: workload management, management of information systems and 9-1-1 address validation opportunities. He is presently enrolled at Aspen University in Denver, Colorado pursuing a Masters in Business Administration.

 
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For further information about senior staff members, contact the Niagara Regional Police Service at (905) 688-4111.