Peter Sloly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Sloly

Canadian soccer player

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1966

Place of Birth: Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica

Profession: association football player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Peter John M.
Sloly, (born 5 August 1966) is a Canadian police officer who will serve as Ottawa Chief of Police, and a former soccer player.
He is the former deputy chief of the Toronto Police Service (Divisional Policing Command and Operational Support Command 2009-2016) 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.
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.