Award: Community Role Model Service: Ontario Provincial PoliceYear: 2021 Ontario Provincial Police Constable Jennifer Landry, of the Temiskaming Detachment, was an Indigenous woman and a member of the Matachewan First Nation. As a former constable of the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS), she was involved extensively in the communities she policed as an officer and citizen. She treated everyone she encountered with respect and...
Award: Community Role Model Service: Peel Regional Police Year: 2021 On Saturday, February 20, 2021, a four-year-old boy was out sledding with his siblings and Dad when an off-leash dog attacked him and dragged him by his face. Cst. William Hall, who was at the park with his own children while off-duty, put himself in harms way to save the boy by jumping on the...
Award: On-Duty Difference Maker – Civilian Police Service Employee Service: Peel Regional Police Year: 2021 Erin Morrison has been a dispatcher with Peel Regional Police Service for 18 years, and brings a wealth of experience, professionalism and dedication to her role. She is extremely proud of the work she does, and she strives every day to ensure her competence as part of the Police and...
Award: On-Duty Difference Maker – Uniform/Sworn Police Officer Service: Ontario Provincial Police Year: 2021 On March 10, 2020, Sgt. Steven Large with the Ontario Provincial Police utilized quick thinking to rescue a fisherman who had fallen through the ice into the St. Lawrence River off Landon Bay while ice fishing. Sgt. Large risked his own life by undertaking a precarious water rescue using an available...
Around 6am on Sunday, March 8, 2020 my brother was in distress. He left my mom's house just north of Belleville, ON and was driving to Port Colborne. We had been in contact with Belleville Police, but after his cell phone had pinged off a cell tower in the Toronto area, the Belleville Police could no longer help. Hours later,...
Kristi has to be calm, cool, collected to be a Peel Regional Police Service 911 dispatcher. She has to be able to rise to the occasion of what ever the call might be, then be able to go home to her family and still be a loving and caring daughter and mom. To learn she had to help a member...
I met Woodstock Police Cst. Crombeen during a difficult time for me personally, as my daughter had threatened to kill myself and her two young children that I have custody of. It has been an ongoing issue as my daughter suffers mental health and addiction issues, and cannot be found any more to serve court documents. Through each interaction with...
On March 10, 2020, Steven Large with the OPP was a quick thinking officer who used an available canoe sliding it across the ice to rescue a fisherman who had fallen through into the St. Lawrence River off Landon Bay while ice fishing. Officer Large wasn't worried about his safety, rather, just saving this individual and doing his duty. Exactly...
OPP Officer Ron Boudreault lives in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. On Dec 9, 2015 my mother, whom I had been taking care of at home, passed away while I went to get her and I coffee. I returned to the home and later learned that she had suffered a diabetic seizure that she didn’t recover from during the short time I...
Kip Wohlert has been a member of the Child Sexual Exploitation Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police for many years. Kip always puts the needs of the child victim first. Kip has been role model to other officers in Ontario and Canada as an instructor at both the Canadian Police College and the Ontario Police College. Kip is always available...