Union surprised Glover resigns from police force

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The resignation of former Conservative cabinet minister Shelly Glover from the Winnipeg Police Service caught the police union unawares.

Moe Sabourin, president of the Winnipeg Police Association, said Glover went to the union for advice regarding a workplace matter toward the end of last year.

Sabourin said he didn’t know that Glover, who was a Winnipeg police patrol sergeant, would resign before her complaint was resolved.

He said he only found out about Glover’s resignation earlier this week.

“Her resignation was a surprise,” he said on Friday.

“She came to us for advice. There was no discussion whether she should resign or not. She had come to us with a concern. Her resignation had nothing to do with any input from us.”

CBC is reporting that it obtained a resignation letter from Glover in which she accuses Winnipeg police of being a “toxic workplace.”

Glover said in the letter that she expects a complaint she had launched with the department, which was being investigated as a respectful workplace complaint, would continue to be looked into even though she quit the department.

Glover, who at one point was the police service’s media information officer, took a leave of absence from the force after she was elected the Tory MP for St. Boniface in 2008.

Glover was appointed heritage minister by then-prime minister Stephen Harper before she resigned in 2015 to return to the police service.

Glover could not be reached for comment.

A spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Police Service said they would not comment about Glover.