Girls-only police recruiting session going down in Welland

In reference to Worldwide Girls’s Day, the OPP is holding a women-only recruitment presentation in Welland Wednesday night.

The session at Niagara Security Village at Niagara Faculty begins at 6 pm and can provide data, perception and recommendation regarding the Ontario Provincial Police recruitment course of from a pair of skilled native constables, Patrick Massie and Pete Tucker.

“We have been doing this each month, however we focused this particularly as a result of it is Worldwide Girls’s Day,” Massie mentioned. “We wish to encourage ladies to consider policing as a profession.

“As employers, the OPP is in search of folks from all walks of life, and we’re inclusive with everybody.”

Massie mentioned the session contains an summary of the best way to apply, stipulations and the best way to put together for every stage of the method.

It is a profession during which no two days are ever the identical and stereotypes not apply.

“I left a profession in funeral providers and have become an OPP officer once I was 37,” Massey mentioned.

Twenty-three years later, he has no doubts about his second profession selection and the prospect to serve others no matter their state of affairs.

“There’s full satisfaction serving to different folks out of your neighborhood and world wide,” Massey mentioned. “After I say world wide, it is as a result of I’ve labored on the Niagara Falls OPP detachment, and now we have vacationers from everywhere in the globe each day.

“I had one gentleman from Italy concerned within the crash a number of years in the past, and yearly he sends me a Christmas card on the pc and invitations me to his home in Italy.”

Niagara Security Village is on the nook of Rice and Woodlawn roads. RSVPs can be found at www.eventbrite.ca/e/523953076757.

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