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CONTENTS ©
Police & Peace Officers'
Memorial Ribbon Society
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Executive Board Members
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[ Past
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President/Treasurer:
G. Shawn Coady joined the Vancouver Police Department in 1990
after 4 years with BC Corrections at the Lower Mainland Regional
Correctional Centre (Oakalla). He finished a 'stint' in the
Vancouver Gaol as the NCO in charge, and is now working with
the Vancouver Olympic Integrated Security Unit for the 2010
Olympics. Prior to working n the Gaol, he was the Station NCO
working out of the old VPD HQ's building. He also held a variety
of positions in patrol as well as a detective in the Domestic
Violence Unit. Shawn is the creator of the Ribbon and has been
involved with the BC Police and Peace Officers' Memorial since
1998 having been the coordinator for two held in Vancouver.
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Vice-President:
Ross M. Gulkison, OStJ, SMOTJ
Ross's civil service extends over thirty-four years and includes
corrections, sheriffs, police, federal investigations, and the
militia. His proudest moment was his military commission and
later his appointment in 1993 to Chief of the former Sto:lo
Justice Service, by Ovide Mercredi, Grand Chief of the National
Assembly of First Nations, Canada. Ross remains a member of
the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and a volunteer
on several other boards.
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Secretary:
Jean Galvin
Jean Joined the RCMP as a civilian member in 1978, and became
a sworn member in 1979. She spent her whole career in "E"
Division, Vancouver and retired in 1998. She is presently employed
by the RCMP Langley Detachment as the Court Liaison.
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Director:
Mike McCarthy
"Mike McCarthy has been a Director of the Memorial Ribbon
Society since 2001 and member of the RCMP since 1986. His work
locations have all been in B.C. and have included Shawnigan
Lake, New Hazelton, Kelowna, Granisle, Chilliwack and Agassiz.
Mike has worked in several areas of policing including Detachment
Commander duties, General Duty Patrol, Community Policing and
Serious Crime. He is currently working as the Sgt. in Charge
of the Agassiz RCMP office and the Upper Fraser Valley Regional
Detachment First Nations Policing Unit. Mike is married and
has three teenage children."
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Director:
Chaplain Jim Turner
Jim has served as pastor at three churches over a period of
twenty years of Pastoral Ministry. In addition he has taught
at Northwest Baptist Theological College, served in executive
positions in the regional and national Fellowship of Evangelical
Baptist Churches in Canada.
Jim has served the law enforcement community in a voluntary
capacity for over nineteen years. Jim has served with the RCMP
as Chaplain for five years in "K" Division specifically
Calgary Sub-Division. Since moving back to B.C. in 1995, Jim
began serving at Burnaby, Richmond Detachments and "E"
Division HQ. On October 23, 2000 Jim left full time pastoral
ministry in the church setting and was appointed as the first
Divisional Chaplain for "E" Division. In February
of 2001 Jim was appointed as Chaplain at Delta Police. In February
of 2003 Jim was appointed as the chaplain at Vancouver Police.
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Director:
Michel Funicelli
Michel Funicelli has been an RCMP member since 1985 (worked
in patrol, GIS, Customs & Excise, and Drugs in BC) and then
transferred to Quebec. Michel was one of the founding members
of the Society starting in 1998 and was instrumental in getting
the RCMP involved. Upon his transfer Michel had to step down
but has rejoined the Society executive as Quebec's Liaison.
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Director:
James Pearson
James Pearson has been employed by the Vancouver Police Department
since May of 1992. He is currently appointed as Vancouver's
Departmental Sgt/Major. James presently works out of the Patrol
Division, and prior to his enlistment with the VPD he enjoyed
a career with the Canadian Military where he was a Commissioned
Officer.
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Director: Jim Pyke
Jim Pyke has been a British Columbia Provincial Correctional
Officer since 1994 and involved with the B.C. Provincial Police
and Peace Officers Memorial since the first memorial in 1998.
He currently works at Surrey Pre-Trial Services Center and
is heavily involved with that Center's Honour Guard along
with the newly formed Provincial Honour Guard.
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Director: Gord Tomlinson
Gord Tomlinson was born and raised on a farm in Ontario,
one of six children. At the age of eleven he decided that
he wanted to be a police officer. Never wavering in that decision,
he was accepted into the RCMP in April 1973. Upon completion
of training in Regina, he served for a year in Ottawa, before
being transferred to Alberta, where he spent the next twenty
four years.
He was first posted to Lac La Biche, Alberta, a town so small
that he was unable to locate it on the maps available to him
in Ottawa. It was only after arriving in the province of Alberta
that he was able to ascertain that the town where he would
marry his wife Anne and they would see the birth of their
two children was located in the north-east of the province.
After four years in Lac La Biche, Gord served in many communities
around the province - Brooks, Fort Chipewyan, Turner Valley.
Gleichen, Calgary, Edmonton and Grande Prairie.
Accepting his Commission in 1999, Gord jumped at the chance
to serve in Surrey, B.C. - the largest RCMP detachment in
the country. In 2000, he became the Operations Support Officer
at North Vancouver Detachment, and in September 2001 he was
named the Officer In Charge of North Vancouver RCMP, with
a promotion to Superintendent. He holds this position to this
day.
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