Supt. Ron Taverner, a close confidant of the Ford family for years, has decided to withdraw his name for the top OPP job “to protect the integrity of rank and file police officers given the controversy surrounding my appointment.” “This decision is not an easy one for me to make,” Supt. Taverner said in a letter to Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Sylvia Jones, which was released by the government late Wednesday. In a statement circulated Thursday morning, lawyer Julian Falconer, acting for former OPP deputy commissioner Brad Blair, said his client considers the withdrawal by the Toronto Police Superintendent as a vindication...