The Hamilton Police Services Board (Board) has a new citizen member appointed by City Council, Dr. Anjali Menezes.
Dr Menezes is a family physician, educator, and researcher in Hamilton. With special interests in trauma-informed care, medical education, and racism in medical training, her career thus far is an eclectic mix of clinical work, teaching, mentoring, research, scholarly work and community activism. Humanism pedagogy strongly influences her teaching philosophy, with the guiding principle that we can only attain knowledge when our basic needs are met. She posits that the most basic of all our needs are our needs to feel safe and to feel like we belong.
Anjali’s current academic focus is on studying racial differentials in attainment. In 2021, she created and currently leads the Differential Attainment REsearch (DARe) Group Collaborative: a growing Canadian national network of exclusively racialized academics studying and working towards eliminating the racial attainment gap in medical and health professionals’ training and career outcomes.
Re-appointed to the Police Board is Fred Bennink. He was originally appointed as the City of Hamilton’s Citizen Member on March 27, 2019. He resigned as citizen member last week and was reappointed, now as the province’s choice. He has taken on many roles while serving on the Board. He was elected as Vice Chair three years in a row and has served on the Budget Committee as well as Civilian, Sworn and Bargaining Committees. He’s made it a practice to visit each of the frontline squads on an annual basis to show support on behalf of the Board.
Fred considers public safety to be one of the most important functions the service provides to the community.
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