David Hammond, of Amherstburg, is a provincial appointee to the Windsor Police Service Board as of January 16, 2025 and will serve until January 15, 2027.

Mayor Prue might not be happy that his role is to be an Advisor on the Windsor Police Service Board, without a vote, but the terms of the contract were known when town council renewed the contract on February 8, 2023.

I reached out to Mayor Dilkens, who responded by email:

The City of Windsor has a contract to provide policing to the Town of Amherstburg.  Windsor City Council was agreeable to providing their one seat to the Mayor of Amherstburg for the first term of the agreement.  After the first term, the contract specifically allows City Council to choose any other member of the public.  The contract also provides that if the mayor of Amherstburg is not selected, then the mayor can sit as a non-voting advisor to the Board, which Mayor Prue has done since assuming his office.  The City of Windsor is simply a service provider to Amherstburg.  We aren’t jointly governing the Windsor Police Service.  David Hammond is a provincial appointee to the Windsor Police Service Board.  The City has no control over who the Province of Ontario appoints as their representatives.  The City of Windsor can only appoint a single public member to the Board.  The remaining appointments controlled by City Council must be members of Windsor city council. 

The initial Agreement between the Town of Amherstburg and the City of Windsor, signed on October 12, 2018 stipulated:

The following shall determine the role of the Town with respect to the Board:

14. l (a) The City shall appoint the Mayor or his or her designate to the Board for the remaining term of Council until November 14, 2022, starting with the commencement of this Agreement on January 1, 2019.

(b) The City may consider the appointment of the Mayor or his or her designate for subsequent terms of Council provided that the City is providing police services to the Town.

(c) If at any time during the Initial Term or any Renewal Term, the Mayor or his or her designate is not appointed to the Board, the City agrees to allow the Mayor or his or her designate to become an advisor to the Board, as contemplated by the Act with the full ability to attend all meetings of the Board.

For further clarification regarding 14.1 (c), ‘all meetings of the Board’ shall include in-camera meetings and the advisor shall also receive all reports and correspondence as a full member of the Board would receive, subject to the advisor signing a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.