?Ques­tions are be­ing asked about the ap­point­ment of the new­ly-se­lect­ed Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, Cana­di­an Jack Ewats­ki.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease yes­ter­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion has ap­proved the nom­i­na­tions of Stephen Williams, Mau­rice Pig­gott and Ewats­ki as Deputy Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice on June 29. Williams' ap­point­ment as Deputy Com­mis­sion­er was ef­fec­tive from yes­ter­day and Pig­gott to­day and Ewats­ki with ef­fect from the date of his as­sump­tion.

Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gilbert Reyes re­tired last week Mon­day. When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day Reyes was en­joy­ing time off af­ter sev­er­al ex­ten­sions. Ewats­ki, 58, a for­mer Chief of Po­lice in Win­nipeg, Man­i­to­ba, served 34 years in the ser­vice. A sto­ry in a Cana­di­an news­pa­pers claimed Ewats­ki's broth­er, Jamie, and an­oth­er staffer were charged with as­sault in an in­ci­dent in De­cem­ber 2004. A blog al­leged his for­mer step­son, Jess Ze­brun, was charged with il­le­gal en­try and per­jury.

A re­port said Ewats­ki in­tend­ed to sus­pend­ed his ac­tiv­i­ties with a se­cu­ri­ty con­sult­ing firm and as a hob­by is a li­censed pi­lot who flies small air­craft. The com­mis­sion con­sid­ered the or­der of mer­it list which had been es­tab­lished fol­low­ing its as­sess­ment of the can­di­dates as pre­scribed by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Se­lec­tion Process Or­der 2009, the re­lease stat­ed. The com­mis­sion, af­ter con­sul­ta­tion with James Philbert, de­cid­ed he would con­tin­ue to act as com­mis­sion­er un­til Sep­tem­ber 30 or un­til such time be­fore the date in the event a sub­stan­tive ap­point­ment is made.