(he did not have to ride a horse in his training) who is currently Non Commissioned Officer in Charge of Community Policing for K Division which covers the entire Province of Alberta.

 

History:  1982 Regina Depot training; married;  1982 - 1988 first post Stony Plain; daughter born, at the end Bob said his boss accepted his transfer for him; 1988 - 1991 Two Hills, 3 man post, found that the community adopts you as their own; son born;  1991 - 1993 Yellowknife NWT showed picture of Wildcat Cafe that serves only wild meat; Bob started coaching sports while there; he was on site when miners were on strike at Giant Yellowknife Mine (interviewing a person of interest) when an explosion occurred; he was wearing a bullet proof vest under his uniform which caused his relatives to claim he had gained a lot of weight when he ended up on a t v broadcast

 

1993 - 1995 Lutsel'ke NWT promoted to corporal; a good 2 year posting; he merged immediately into close relations with the community by helping to dig a grave on his first day there and by working with Chief and Council to improve how the community members perceived how to approach their life there; he reduced the largest court date list to no court needed by working with the community and getting community based sentences issued instead of jail which was positive for the community; a drug dealer was caught and, besides selling on his own he had a 15 year old sell as well, in order to remain a citizen he had to change his life style which resulted in a community based sentence that he could not get water or sewer services if he kept selling; this put Bob into a Yellowknife newspaper article;

 

1995 - 1999 Gleichen reported to be the worst place in Alberta because of the 6,000 Siksika band members living there; Bob worked his community policing approach by enlisting the tribal justice coordinators and tribal police into a joint help the community campaign and the situation improved immensely; 1999 - 2000 Turner Valley a positive community (his wife loved it); 2000 - 2001 Tsuu T'ina, worked with the tribal police chief on an alternative justice system which saw a court set up in in the community; 2001 - 2003 Shellbrook SK (Bob attended high school there),  he sees his first girlfriend there  then arrests her son who escaped from the police car, arranged for the girlfriend to bring her son in, using alternative justice the son was not charged thus no criminal record; Bob found that he was an honourary Legion member since the Legion gave that honour to anyone from the town that joined the military or police, Bob coached volleyball; 2003 - 2005 Prince Albert SK promoted to sargeant in charge of traffic; decided to use the RSV2010 national program to cut down the number of fatal accidents, educate the community instead of issuing tickets; took charge at Spirit Wood SK for 2 months when police were shot

 

2006 - 2009 back to Gleichen, promoted to Staff Sargeant; found that a court clerk claimed Bob saved her life when he was there in 95/99 by arresting her as a drunk but spent time with her to develop life style choices and telling her he was not there to arrest her but make her safe; 2009 - 2010 Pristina Kosovo counselling to help police services develop (watch body language because he did not speak the language and taught that skill) became mentor to all European police officers in Kosovo to help in crime prevention/crime reduction - work with the culture that you are policing; letter sent from head of mission that they did not want Bob to go home; 2010 - 2011 Gleichen, lived in Strathmore; 2011 - 2015 Creston B C nicest community in Canada, golf March to November; worked to reduce the growth of illegal marijuana

 

2015 - Edmonton - boss of the Provincial Community Policing Program, sargeants and others work for him; program includes crime stoppers, rural crime watch, cultural diversity (RCMP people the target), restorative justice, auxiliary policing, reserve constable program (hire retired police officers to cover medical vacancies), crime reduction program (going back to the Lutsel'ke program - have to know the community and leaders), punishment does not work, work with the induvidual to change & save lives & money, special conditions in court orders for the person in trouble relating to their specific problems; police cannot be para miltary.

 

Prior to policing Bob went to university, worked oil  rigs, tried to be a teacher (it worked when he was a policeman)

 

Bob was thanked heartily by all members present for his great classification talk!