Former Victoria police chief Elsner hit with 'unprecedented' misconduct ruling

VICTORIA — Former Victoria police chief Frank Elsner will never wear a police uniform again.
For the first time in B.C. the discipline imposed on a police chief under the Police Act would have resulted in his dismissal.
“These findings and discipline measures are unprecedented in Canadian policing,” Police complaint commissioner Stan Lowe said in a news release Wednesday.
Elsner, who was sworn in as police chief on Dec. 15, 2013, resigned in May 2017, but the discipline process