Maureen Prinsloo is a former politician in Scarborough, Ontario

Scarborough, Ontario

Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

 who served as Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board

Toronto Police Services Board

The Toronto Police Services Board is the civilian oversight of the Toronto Police Service. It was called the Metropolitan Toronto Police Services Board from 1990 until 1998 and the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission from 1955 until 1990 when the name of the body was changed as a result of...

 from 1995 to 1998.

She was first elected to Scarborough municipal council

City council

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 in 1978 and served for 10 years as an alderman

Alderman

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. In 1985, she was one of the alderman chosen by Scarborough Council to sit on Metro Council and in 1988, she won a seat in her own right on Metro Toronto Council from the ward of Scarborough Wexford. While on Metro Council she served as Deputy Chair under Alan Tonks

Alan Tonks

Alan Tonks is a Canadian politician. He was the Liberal MP for the federal electoral district of York South—Weston in Toronto from 2000 to 2011, and was the final Metro Toronto Chairman before the amalgamation of Metro Toronto into the new City of Toronto.-Background:Tonks is the son of the late...

 and also served as Chair of the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place is a mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197–acre area includes expo, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial,...

. She ran for Mayor of Scarborough in 1994 coming in third place behind Frank Faubert

Frank Faubert

Frank J. Faubert was a Canadian provincial and municipal politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990, and was the final Mayor of Scarborough before its amalgamation into the City of Toronto...

 and Marilyn Mushinski

Marilyn Mushinski

Marilyn Mushinski is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister under Mike Harris.-Background:...

.

In 1995, she was chosen by the Ontario NDP government of Bob Rae

Bob Rae

Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....

 as one of the province's appointees to the Metropolitan Toronto Police Services Board with the intention of having her succeed Susan Eng

Susan Eng

Susan Eng, LL.B. is a Toronto lawyer and former chair of the Metro Toronto Police Services Board from 1991 to 1995.Eng, the daughter of immigrants from China, studied at Jarvis Collegiate Institute and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1975...

 as chair. She was elected Chair by a 5-2 margin.

Prinsloo's term as chair saw improved relations between the Board and the Metropolitan Toronto Police compared to the tempestuous relationship that existed under Prinsloo's predecessor, Susan Eng.

Following the 1997 municipal election

Toronto municipal election, 1997

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 that saw city council

City council

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 move to the right under new Mayor of Toronto Mel Lastman

Mel Lastman

Melvin Douglas "Mel" Lastman , nicknamed "Mayor Mel", is a former businessman and politician. He is the founder of the Bad Boy Furniture chain. He served as the mayor of the former city of North York, Ontario, Canada from 1972 until 1997. At the end of 1997, North York, along with five other...

 as well as the more conservative tenor of the province's appointees to the Board under Conservative Premier Mike Harris

Mike Harris

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, Prinsloo was challenged for the position of Board chair by conservative Councillor Norman Gardner

Norman Gardner

Norman "Norm" Gardner is a politician and administrator in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a former North York and Toronto City Councillor, serving most recently as chair of the Toronto Police Services Board .-Private life and career:...

, despite the long-standing convention that an incumbent chair is not challenged for the position and that the chair of the board not be a sitting city councillor. With Lastman's backing, Gardner, won the position by a 4-3 margin.

Prinsloo remained on the Board as an ordinary member until May when she resigned from the board before the end of her term.

Electoral history

Mayor of Scarborough (1994)

• Frank Faubert
  Frank Faubert
  Frank J. Faubert was a Canadian provincial and municipal politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990, and was the final Mayor of Scarborough before its amalgamation into the City of Toronto...
  
   54,885
• Marilyn Mushinski
  Marilyn Mushinski
  Marilyn Mushinski is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister under Mike Harris.-Background:...
  
   24,041
• Maureen Prinsloo 17,376
• John O'Malley 5,088
• Max French
  Max French
  David Maxwell French is a far-right political activist in Canada and a leading figure of the Heritage Front.A railway brakeman by training, in 1988, French was a fringe candidate running to be mayor of Scarborough, Ontario as the candidate of the white supremacist Nationalist Party of...
  
  2,792
• Abel Van Wyk 2,758

Metro Council: Scarbourgh Wexford (1991)

• Maureen Prinsloo 6,288
• Hugh Canning - 4,820

Metro Council: Scarborough Wexford (1988)

• Maureen Prinsloo 6,007
• Bryan Prettie 4,922

Scarborough City Council: Ward 10 (1985)

• Maureen Prinsloo 4,045
• Richard Edmonds 1,997

Scarborough Council: Ward 10 (1982)

• Maureen Prinsloo (acclaimed)

Scarborough Council: Ward 10 (1980)

• Maureen Prinsloo
• Patrick J. Doyle

Scarborough Council: Ward 10 (1978) (104 out of 105 polls counted)

• Prinsloo 2,892
• Murphy 1,835
• MacPherson 1,395
• Boye 748
• Calcutt 616
• Wayne 380