True Crime
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My mum in Australia wants to talk to you. Part three.
Link to Page one. I have to admit, I love the expression on people’s faces when they are arrested. Well not everyone, but certainly the ones who never dream of getting caught, the smug ones. The only other facial expression you encounter in police work that can top it is when you introduce someone to
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My mum in Australia wants to talk to you. Part two.
Link to Part one. My first thought when she spoke to me was “But I don’t even know anyone in Australia. The only person there I knew was a woman I dated in University, but that was like 24… years… ago… Nah. Couldn’t be.” It wasn’t. When I went into the kitchen and picked up
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My mum in Australia wants to talk to you. Part one.
Police often take flak over coffee. Tim Horton and doughnut jokes abound. The truth is, especially in small town policing, is that our breaks are never truly ours. When you’re as visible as the police are, and expected to be “on” at all times you expect to be interrupted . I can’t envision a postal
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Conclusion
Link to Part one. After Herman was locked in the drunk tank Tracy and Mark headed off to the hospital to get their injuries attended to, Tracy for her bitten finger (and a tetanus shot) Mark for a numbness in his face where he had been hit by Herman. Wayne and I sat down and
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part four.
Link to part one. One of the disadvantages of being a guy is that we have a couple of, er, rather exposed pain points. A blow to these points can be incapacitating, and another rather effective way of taking the fight out of someone. Usually in a struggle, you want to end the fight quickly,
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part three.
Link to Part one. As soon as I realized what had happened I dropped over the ridge, sliding to the bottom. Down below was a bush area, mostly thick black spruce, crisscrossed with trails. I quickly found his footprints and set off after him, but I quickly thought better of it, here was a fellow
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part two.
Link to Part one. I have to admit that I was startled when I came around the corner to see Herman standing there. Nature has a way of showing us when something is dangerous, such as the bright colours of certain poisonous animals, or a rattlesnake’s rattle, or the look in this guy’s eyes. As
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part one.
The phone woke me up at 5:00 am, and my conversation with teleomns had me up and moving fast instantly. “Mark and Tracy are in a fight at the Northlands Hotel and they need help right away.” Out of bed in a flash, I pulled on socks, uniform pants and my soft body armor, not
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Tales from Court
I have to admit I’ve been afflicted with a strange lethargy when it comes to writing lately. It’s not that I haven’t had things to write about, in fact there has been no shortage at all. But while I work up the will to get more writing done, here is my favourite court story. When
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Conclusion
Link to Part one. Michael J. found himself on the wrong end of several judgements. He lost his appeal against the $17,000 duty and penalty assessed by us, His (now ex-) wife came up and made application in Queen’s Bench Court for the $255,000.00 cash and was awarded half of it. And he faced the