"David Boothby"@en . . "Chief of theMetropolitan Toronto Police Service" . "Boothby, David"@en . "David Boothby (born 1944) was last Chief of Police of the Metro Toronto Police 1995-1997, and first Chief of the Toronto Police Service, from 1998 to 2000.Boothby was born in Keswick, Ontario. He joined the then Metro Toronto Police in 1964 as a beat officer and became a homicide detective in 1978. Boothby's rise to the chief's post was seen as a change from the style of William J. McCormack, but he had a difficult time with the Toronto Police union president Craig Bromell."@en . "Canadian police chief" . "1944Z"^^ . . . . "Chief of theToronto Police Service" . . . .