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Only 28 per cent of the Ottawa police force has confidence in the highest rung of their leadership, according to the results of the 2015 member survey.

The results, anecdotally called “horrendous” and “abysmal” by officers, show that another 28 per cent of respondents had no opinion about Chief Charles Bordeleau, Deputy Chiefs Ed Keeley and Jill Skinner and civilian director general Debra Frazer. And the remaining 45 per cent were dissatisfied with their top command.

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Bordeleau released the much anticipated results of the survey to the rank-and-file on Monday.

The survey’s preliminary results, released earlier this summer, had already prompted Bordeleau to commit — before getting budget approval — to hiring 75 officers, and to eliminate a widely hated transfer policy.

Though nearly two-thirds of respondents said they were proud to tell people they work for the Ottawa Police Service, that number was the lowest recorded level of job pride since 2002, according to survey data obtained by the Citizen.