Excellence In Performance
This officer started her 22 year-career with Durham Regional Police Service as a dispatcher. As an officer, she has been assigned to numerous areas across the Region and has achieved remarkable results in each place she has worked. She started off as a patrol officer and in short order, attained certification as a breathalyzer technician conducting over 400 tests, one of the highest in the region. She then became the first female officer assigned to the Hit and Run Squad. While in this squad, she continued as breathalyzer operator where she co-developed and co-coordinated the maintenance/supply, calibration program. The Regional Breathalyzer Program continues to this date.
During her tenure in the Community Foot Patrol Unit, this officer introduced CPTED or Crime Prevention through Environmental Design concepts to the City of Oshawa. She started a community merchants' newsletter that provided information on crime prevention and other topical issues. She also developed "Business Alert", a program that has storeowners contact one another to share information on active fraud artists or thieves working the area. This officer has worked with the City solicitor to enact by-laws in relationship to pawnshops. She successfully changed the way rightful owners of property recovered their stolen goods.
Once promoted to Sergeant, she was selected as one of a group to act as a "change team facilitator" as her Service changed the way it conducted business. She became the first female to work in Professional Standards, where she continued her exemplary work in prosecutions, in fact, long after her departure from the Unit.
In 2000, she was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant. As case manager for the 2004 multi-jurisdictional "Project Smokebreak", she co-ordinated a team of investigators from seven Services that eventually saw over 900 charges laid. The case is currently in the preliminary hearing stage. Presently, she is Community Patrol Leader in Whitby, where she is responsible for 82 officers.
