I am currently the Manager of The Watch.

I was a police officer for nearly 29 years in Lethbridge, from 1985 to 2014.  I held 11 different jobs through four ranks during my tenure, retiring as an Inspector in 2014.  After retiring I worked as a safety coordinator for a local custom home builder, I was the Regional Manager for the Commissionaires for a year and a half providing security services for a number of clients in Southern Alberta, and I was an instructor at a local private vocational school a curriculum I had developed for them for Security Professional and as a provincially certified Basic Security Training and Private Investigator Training instructor. 

I started with The Watch as a volunteer in the first training class in April of 2019.  I saw it as an opportunity to give back to a community that had been so generous to my family and I in a way that I was familiar with.  My family was into volunteering, especially my wife who is a past president of the Lethbridge and District YWCA and the Lethbridge and District Boys and Girls Club.  She had volunteered at our daughter’s schools in addition to that, and now it was my turn.  Besides, I was mostly retired so I had time to give back. We have two grown daughters who live with their husbands and children in Lethbridge.  One of our daughters is a nurse and one is an emergency dispatcher in the Lethbridge Public Safety Communications Centre.  We have four grand children, a boy and three girls, ages 9, 7, 5 and 2.   

The Watch Manager’s job became vacant when our initial manager left in September last year,  and we had an acting Manager who was doing a great job but was set to start training as a Community Peace Officer in the spring.  I was asked to apply for the Manager’s position last December, which was the furthest thing from my mind as I was very content being a volunteer and being mostly retired at that time.  However there was a need in the community and I saw it as an opportunity to ensure there was something good being done in the community to address an large problem, and it was an opportunity to develop The Watch into a positive social partner to help solve that problem, so I applied.  Here I am eight months later…not retired and enjoying the work.