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Newly appointed head of Saskatchewan’s Mountie academy, Chief Supt. Louise Lafrance, has expressed her goal to keep the agency a leading-edge training facility for other police agencies to follow. Chief Lafrance took command of the Regina-based RCMP Depot Division, becoming the second woman ever appointed to the helm of the national police force’s training center. She took hold of the position on Wednesday at a special change of command ceremony at the RCMP’s Regina parade square, before hundreds of officers, cadets and spectators.
A Quebec native and member of the RCMP for nearly 30 years, Lefrance, informed reporters after the ceremony that “it means a lot to me to run this place.” She alleged that “we, the women of the RCMP, want to be recognized for what we do — not because we’re women. I’m hoping this is why I’m getting this job. And I believe this is why I’m getting this job.”
Lafrance, a wife of a Mountie staff sergeant and a mother of three, stated that “we want to remain the state-of-the-art police academy.” She explained “people from all over the world come here to see how we train our cadets. That said, we need to be ahead of everything. We keep current with everything that’s going on in the communities and the policing role, and we adapt to that. We are ahead of many, many organizations as far as simulation training, and I want to continue working on that.”
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