Each year, the Ottawa Police Services Board and the Ottawa Police Service, in partnership with the Community Foundation of Ottawa, have the honour of providing 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 $2,000 drawn from the fund's annual accumulated interest. The Community Foundation of Ottawa maintains the fund. The award is 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.
The Scholarship is administered by the Outreach Recruitment Team and supported by a volunteer member of the Ottawa Police.
Thomas G. Flanagan S.C. Scholarship applications are now open until February 28th, 2026.
