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OPP controversies
Ford came under fire in December 2018 by Ontario Provincial Police Deputy Commissioner Brad Blair, who claimed Ford requested the OPP “purchase a large camper-type vehicle ... modified to specifications the premier’s office would provide” and keep the costs “off the books.” The vehicle was intended for the premier to use for work, and reportedly was asked to include a swivel chair. The accusation followed on the heels of Ford appointing a longtime family friend to be the next OPP commissioner just days after lowering the requirements for the position.

Political patronage controversies
In December 2018 Bob Paulson, who served as RCMP for 32-years before retiring in 2017, called for an independent third-party inquiry into Ford's appointment in December 2018 of Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner, who is a long-time friend of Ford, as the new commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police. By March 2019, Taverner had stepped down following "months of controversy" that "triggered an integrity commissioner investigation".

In June 2019 Ford's chief of staff, Dean French, resigned on June 21, 2019 "amid a patronage scandal". According to a Globe and Mail article, French resigned "after it was revealed that two people with personal ties to [French] were given lucrative foreign appointments". Thomas Staples, who played on St. Michael's College Varsity Lacrosse team with French as coach, served as the executive assistant and legislative affairs advisor for the minister of government and consumer services after working in Bill Walker's office in 2018. According to iPolitics, Staples had no qualifications for working in the office of the party Whip—he had "no experience working in politics" and had not completed his undergraduate studies. French also gave his wife's second cousin a position. French's niece, Katherine Pal, who had been appointed as Ontario's Public Accounts Council resigned after her family ties to French were revealed.

The Toronto Sun reported in a June 27, 2019 article that 26 year-old Tyler Albrecht, who also had a "thin resume" was proposed for a "job that paid $165,000 a year, plus housing and other expenses" as Ontario’s "new trade rep in New York City". His qualification was "that he played lacrosse with French's son".

On July 10, Andrew Suboch, a "a personal injury and insurance lawyer" who had served as chair of the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee (JPAAC), informed the JPAAC that he was resigning immediately after an article in the Globe revealed that Suboch was another of French's "long-time" friends whose sons played lacrosse on the same team.

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