Can the watch committee discharge a chief constable who they think is unfit for duty?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Samuels v. Council of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, 1966 CanLII 352 (SK QB):
In Ridge v. Baldwin [1964] AC 40, [1963] 2 WLR 935, [1963] 2 All ER 66, the watch committee were empowered to discharge a chief constable whom they “think negligent in the discharge of his duty or otherwise unfit for the same.”
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