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Community-Police Award Recipient Cassidy
Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019 04:00 AM
We recently held our annual Community-Police Awards ceremony and want to introduce you to the recipients this week.
In September 2019, Cassidy Lalonde was out for a walk when she came across a man who appeared to be unconscious, laying face down on the driveway of a nearby residence.
Cassidy approached the man and attempted to wake him but soon realized that he was showing no vital signs. She immediately called 911 and followed the CPR directions given by the Police Communicator. Cassidy...
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Thomas G. Flanagan Scholarship Recipient Jijo
Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019 04:00 AM
The former Ottawa Police Services Board established the Thomas G. Flanagan Scholarship as a means to assist racialized and Indigenous women who have expressed an interest in a policing career. The scholarship funds are derived from an endowment that was arranged upon the retirement in 1993 of the late Ottawa Chief of Police Thomas G. Flanagan in recognition of his accomplished policing career. Since 1993, this award has been presented annually to women to continue their post-secondary education...
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Community-Police Award Recipient André
Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019 03:45 AM
We recently held our annual Community-Police Awards ceremony and want to introduce you to the recipients this week.
On Christmas Day 2018, a suspect entered a store carrying a knife and demanded cash. After a store employee handed over money, the suspect fled down the road. André Bourgon saw the robbery unfold, followed the suspect and confronted him.
André conducted a citizen’s arrest and held the suspect until police arrived on scene. He put his own safety at risk by following and conducting a...
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Community-Police Award Recipient Jamie
Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019 03:45 AM
We recently held our annual Community-Police Awards ceremony and want to introduce you to the recipients this week.
In October 2018, Jamie Mailman was parked in front of a bank waiting for his fiancée to finish work next door. While waiting, he noticed a vehicle parked close to him with two men inside who seemed to be looking at the bank that was closed. As another man appeared and began walking into the bank to use the ATM, one of the men in the waiting vehicle caught up to him and began...
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Community-Police Award Recipient Justin
Posted on Friday, November 29, 2019 03:45 AM
We recently held our annual Community-Police Awards ceremony and want to introduce you to the recipients this week.
In January 2019, Justin Villeneuve was just 12 years old when he was walking through a park and noticed a man lying in the snow who appeared to have collapsed. Amazingly, Justin began CPR but was unable to immediately revive the man. He ran home to alert his mother of the situation who called 9-1-1. Justin led his mother and the paramedics back to the location where the man was...