Each year, the Ottawa Police Services Board and the Ottawa Police Service, in partnership with the Community Foundation of Ottawa, have the honour to provide the Thomas G. Flanagan S.C. Scholarship to individuals who identify as women from racialized and/or Indigenous communities who express an interest in joining the Ottawa Police.

Scholarship funds are derived from an endowment arranged upon the 1993 retirement of the late Ottawa Chief of Police, Thomas G. Flanagan, S.C., in recognition of his distinguished and community-oriented policing career.

The scholarship provides an annual award of $1,500 that is drawn from the fund's annual accumulated interest. The Community Foundation of Ottawa maintains the fund. The award is subsequently forwarded to an accredited educational institution in the name of the successful candidate who has met the compulsory criteria and has been recommended by the selection committee, in the given year. There have been exceptions to this in previous years when the student's tuition was covered by other means and the award was instead used for school related fees. 

Download the Application (PDF) and submit it via email to info@ottawapolice.ca

The Scholarship is administered by the Diversity and Race Relations (DRR) Section and supported by a volunteer member of the Ottawa Police.

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