The RCMP’s top cop in Ontario was demoted in Thunder Bay Monday due to good behaviour.
RCMP chief superintendent of O Division Norm Mazerolle became constable for a day in Thunder Bay after the city’s 17 RCMP officers raised the most money for the Haitian relief effort. A challenge had gone out to all Ontario RCMP detachments to raise money for two organizations after the RCMP lost two officers during the earthquake there last January. The RCMP Thunder Bay Detachment raised $600 of the $2,877.15 raised by Ontario RCMP officers.
"It was very important and certainly very impressive from an individual perspective," Mazerolle said.
From patrolling the waterfront to meeting with organized crime units Mazerolle, a 35 year RCMP veteran, said he was looking forward to getting back out in the community.
"I would appreciate some action it’s been a while since I’ve been in the field," he said. "It will be nice to get back to where I started and that’s doing police work and being involved in the community."
Mazerolle worked with Sergeant Mark Gallagher, one of the officers killed in Haiti. He said helpign Haiti was important not only from an organizational standpoint but a humanitarian one as well.
"To gain back their country and their way of life," he said.
