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Walkin’ The Beat With The Cornwall Police Service

U.K., that I had sent out a tweet travel ban has lifted. Chief Aikman’s
it is incredible the number of times
acknowledging the commonly response prompted a number of
we have been confused with our
colleagues at the Devon & Cornwall occurring mistake. To my surprise, policing professionals in the U.K. to
the tweet had an overwhelming reach out and inquire into the idea of
Police in the United Kingdom. Quite
often, the messages we have received amount of impressions, reaching over an exchange program.
are concerning someone wanting to 150,000 people. Of the hundreds of Overall, it was a refreshing and
comments, many locals in the U.K.
report an incident, or citizens sharing highly entertaining thread to take part
their opinion on a particular matter, were very interested on our stance on in. While the number of replies and
the “jam or cream debate on scones.”
which we are familiar with receiving retweets was certainly unexpected, it
from our local residents as well. When clarified, we learned this was a delight to see the great sense
debate surrounds whether a person
Stephanie McRae When I respond to the messages puts cream on their scone first and of humour and hospitality offered by
Communications Co-ordinator our friends across the pond.
by telling the sender that we are tops it with jam, or the reverse, where
Safety Tip of the Month: While
the CPS of Ontario, Canada, and jam is applied first, with the cream
social media can be great for
ne of my responsibilities as the that unfortunately they fall slightly put on top after that. The CPS has yet
connecting people and generating
OCommunications Coordinator outside of our jurisdiction, it usually to confirm our stance on the matter.
some laughs, as seen above, always
for the Cornwall Police Service results in an apologetic laugh.
(CPS) includes managing our social Our Chief of Police, Danny remember to be safe online. Be
It reached a point back in April Aikman, even got in on the Twitter careful when connecting with people
media pages.
that we were receiving so many fun, offering to be of more assistance you do not know and never give out
Whether it is on Twitter or Facebook, messages from our friends in the to our colleagues in the U.K. once the personal information about yourself.

Jules Desrosiers:

A Little Man - A Big Contribution.

By Thom Racine
Although a tremendous athlete
and competitor, Jules will always be
remembered as the stats guy. He was
hen I came to Cornwall in 1981, statistician with the Cornwall Royals
WI was returning to the place of for about fifteen years starting in the
my birth. Now most of you know my late sixties. He was instrumental in
parentage and yes, I did have a fairly developing the plus/minus system
well-known dad. When I started on my which is now a modern stat given to
first squad at the police station, I worked hockey players indicating when they
with Rene Desrosiers. Rene and I would were on the ice for a goal for or against.
play together on our very good police He originally developed a system on a
hockey team for a decade. Early on, I sheet of paper which depicted a hockey
met Rene’s dad, Jules. He was a little rink. If a goal was scored by the Royals,
man with a nose for talent and an eye for he put the players’ numbers on the area
numbers. What I didn’t know back then of the ice they were at when the goal
was that Jules had carved out quite the was scored. Equally, he would put the
sporting while growing up in Cornwall. players’ numbers on the area of ice they
were at when they were scored against.
He was born in 1920 and by 1930 had
joined up to play sports in OCOT sports At the end of the period he would run
down to the dressing room and provide
club at the age of ten. Jules’ passion
was lacrosse and in successive years, the sheet to the coach. As Jules would
1934 and 1935, Jules was chosen as the say, “You really had to have eyes all
around your head.”
All-Star goaltender for the Cornwall
Midget lacrosse team, in the All-Ontario Jules would compile player stats on
Championships. In 1936, Jules was a game-by-game basis, giving them
again selected as All-Star lacrosse percentages for skills such as faceoffs
goaltender for the powerful Junior won in the offensive zone or defensive
League Champions: the Strathconas. In zone by every player who took a
1937, at the age of 17, he was promoted faceoff. Coach Orval Tessier was so
to sub-goalie for the Cornwall Senior impressed with this system, that when
Team; he was able to play in part of the Jules couldn’t make a road game, they
Mann Cup playdowns at the Montreal
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