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Continued from page 26 had a bit of an understanding and opportunities came along. I was also I got up in the morning and didn’t

Because Paul played a lot of hockey, started helping my classmates. working on Police Protocols survey want to go to work. We had amazing
he always took a summer course, That usually started by telling them at Algonquin, interviewing victims students and having had that career
“just in case” he was to fall behind that the start button was on the of crime from across the country to is something that I hold very dear.
during the school year. That never back of the computer. One of our find out what services were available Always an entrepreneur, Paul had
happened and as a result Paul ended classes was CPIC (Canadian Police to them from the larger forces. at least one side business going at
up graduating high school one year Information Program) which was Other opportunities came along as all times. While still under contract
early. “I had always wanted to be creating files on individuals. When well. At Carleton, I told them what at the beginning of his teaching
a police officer,” Paul stated. “By the file was pulled up it had the I was working on and got approval career, he purchased his first home
grade 11 I had completed all of my individual’s name, motor vehicle to use my findings for assignments. in Orleans. When he received his
French courses, so I transferred to info, and further info if there was This was great, Algonquin College first water and sewer bill, he quickly
St. Lawrence for my final year to a criminal record. Joe Moylan, was paying me to do the surveys realized that he would have to find
get a better understanding of writing coordinator of the Law and Security and Carleton University was giving a way to subsidize his income over
in English, and polish penmanship, program at Algonquin, was going me credits for them. While at the summer months. “People don’t
which would help with writing on a sabbatical and asked what I Algonquin, Paul helped to develop like to wash windows, so I started
reports.” was up to after graduation. I told the Alarm Installer course as well a window washing business. I had
When Paul left for Algonquin him that I was still too young to be as coordinate the security program. worked in the paint department at
College, he had just turned 17 hired by a police force so he asked Here I was, 19 years old, teaching Sears in Cornwall, so I offered to
years of age. “I wanted to do my if I would be interested in teaching classes in both French and English paint the sills and trim if needed.
field placements in Cornwall, so I the CPIC program at Algonquin. and I had an office in a college with Knowing that the hiring process for
came back to do ride-alongs with I was continuing my education at my name on the door. my graduate students would take
Constable Danny Digiossa, who Carleton, but here I was making $25 Paul recalled, “Lorraine Seguin, about eighteen months, I hired a
became a major influence on my per hour teaching the course in both one of our faculty, knocked on few of them and sub-contracted the
vision of policing. Computers French and English at Algonquin. It that door to tell me that she was work out to them. People would
were not big at that time, but I wasn’t long before other teaching leaving Algonquin to go to the often ask what I did during the
new French College, La Cite and winter - when I told them that I
asked me if I would be interested was a college professor and that the
in teaching the Defense Tactics people coming to their homes were
and Crisis Intervention classes in future police officers, word quickly
their Law and Security program. spread. We eventually had about
She knew that I had a background 3500 window washing clients with
working with Georges Sylvain in about 400 needing trim painting.
DT and had worked with Pressure That managed to take care of the
Point Control Tactics.” Paul was water and sewer bills.”
offered a one-year contract, then When Paul and his wife, Diane,
was hired full-time the following moved back to Cornwall, they were
year, and ended up having 34-year walking along the water and noticed
career teaching Police Foundation the lack of a waterfront patio. Paul
students at the community college. approached the Parks and Recreation
Reflecting on his teaching career, department and got permission to
Paul is particularly proud of his set up a facility called Mocktail’s,
involvement in the building of the which served non-alcoholic drinks
911 Institute at La Cite. “There were on the patio by the Civic Complex,
36 million dollars of funding that which had previously been Don
went into this Institute, this created Cherry’s. “We did about 600 events

a common area where the Police during the seven years we were
Foundations, Fire, Paramedic, and there, everything from Pokéman

the 911 dispatch students could crawls, volleyball tournaments,
all work together in a controlled movie nights, and horse drawn
    environment scenario. I loved what rides through the park. Fundraisers
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€   I did, and I can honestly say that I for the Canadian Cancer Society
never “worked” a day in my life. and also in support of Alzheimer’s,
There was never even one day that
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