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Police Fitness Personnel of Ontario
To promote fitness and wellness within the policing community
PURPOSE:
(A) To unite fraternally and to promote health, fitness and lifestyle management to police personnel in
(B) To assist the police services of
(C) To become an objective professional collective authority to express opinions on various subjects including, but not limited to, tests of fitness and physical ability standards, equipment, the professional qualifications of leaders, lifestyle modification programs, program delivery systems, the physical demands of policing and training methods to meet job and lifestyle demands.
(D) To develop methodology, collect and interpret physical ability and fitness information in reference to all job-related research.
(E) To retain research information and findings in a central location and make it accessible to all police services.
(F) To provide and promote staff development within the membership.
(G) To make and adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members and for their government; for the establishing of different classes of membership; for the collection of fees and dues; for the election and appointment of its directors and other officers, the definition of their duties; for the safekeeping and protection of its property and funds and in general, to regulate, manage and preserve its property and interest, and from time to time, to alter, repeal, rescind, or vary such constitution, by-laws and rules and regulations.
(H) To promote the good and welfare of its members individually and collectively. To consider, advise upon and make representations with respect to and generally deal with all matters pertaining to the welfare and interests of its members, including conditions of service, employment and membership.
(I) To act as the representative of all members of the Police Fitness Personnel of Ontario, being all paid members and former members with respect to matters affecting the welfare or interest of the Police Fitness Personnel of Ontario.
(J) To enter into any arrangements with authorities, Federal, Provincial or otherwise that may seem conducive to the PFPO’s purposes or any of them and to obtain from any such authority any rights, privileges, and concessions which the PFPO may think is desirable and to obtain and carry out, exercise and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions.
(K) To encourage and promote co-operative enterprise, plans and arrangements, and to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objectives.
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES INCLUDES
Fitness Appraisers Courses
Fitness appraisal has long been used to motivate individuals to increase their physical activity and to develop healthy lifestyles. The training participants receive on this course will result in the ability to assess the major components of fitness in their healthy individuals. Participants will be able to interpret these assessments based on norms and percentiles for Canadians 15 to 69 years of age and the ability to perform
The Ontario Police Fitness Award (OPFA) is a provincial incentive program developed and implemented by the PFPO. Sanctioned by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and the
Today
PFPO currently serves over 58 of police services across the
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