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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM Welcome to our Fall 2023 Newsletter, albeit a few days early. I would like to thank those members who contributed articles to this newsletter. Without you, there would be no newsletter. Regrettably, Teresa Holmes, Regional Secretary has stepped down from her position on the Executive Com-mittee. Teresa will be missed. Thank you, Teresa, for your years of dedication to the team. Fortunately, step-ping down does not mean goodbye so we can expect to see Teresa at future Region 6 events. Bill Murrell, our Travel and Supply Officer will act as interim Secretary. I am happy to report that the IPA seems to have bounced back to pre-pandemic days. More events are being held across the globe and more members seem to be travelling. At our Sep 30th brunch, we will be joined by the President of IPA France and in early October, we will have an event to welcome the Secretary General of the UK and 3 other UK members. Once a date has been selected for the event, a message will be sent to all members. Despite losing 25 members in 2022, the region has bounced back and so far this year, 27 new members have joined. We were delighted to welcome three member transfers from IPA Türkiye and two new members from Georgia. Currently, the region 137 with three months to go. The goal for 2023 is to break the 140 mark. If you have any colleagues that might be interesting in joining, please refer them to our website https://www.ipaottawa.com/join and/or forward them a copy of this newslet-ter. President’s Message

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The IPA Germany invited 20 IPA Canada officers to join them for a week long Training Conference in and around the Düsseldorf area from August 12-20th 2023. The delegation ended up including 15 Canadian offic-ers from various agencies and provinces along with two officers from the UK and two from the Netherlands. The itinerary included a mix of police presentations on everything from the Riot Police Unit, Mounted Unit, Marine Unit, Innovation Lab, Department of Justice, Ethics as well as Specialized Units. These presentations were interspersed with just the right amount of cultural visits. The group was treated to IPA Germany BBQs, visit of the Town of Linz, Münster, Duisburg, Gimborn, Köln. There was also a Fiege Brewery tour, a boat cruise on the River Rhine, an incredible evening spent at the Gimborn Castle and a number of great evenings spent as a group discovering all that German eateries have to offer! Schnitzels, sausages, and world famous beers were enjoyed by all. INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM < Fiege brewery visit in Bochum, Germany IPA Germany Training Course

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The Gimborn Castle stay occurred near the end of this incredible week and provided the group with time to relax, recap the week’s activities, present hosts with their gifts as well as receive our Train-ing Conference certificates. The Castle is managed by IPA Germa-ny and is mainly used for training events. Rooms can be booked by any IPA members. Nestled in the German countryside, it was a dream location with perfect weather to boot! Attending this Training Conference was an incredible opportunity to develop a better understanding of how Police are trained abroad and how they accomplish their tasks in a much different environ-ment than we have here in Canada. All in all, this would be a highly recommended experience for any IPA Canada members looking to expand their knowledge of the po-licing world while enjoying some fun filled cultural experiences. Can’t wait for what opportunities come up next! A big thank you to Region 6 for supporting my application to attend this Conference and for their financial contribution as well. Nancy Martin Region 6 Member INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM Mr. Brzozowski was born in Nottingham in midsummer 1945. The Second World War was winding down, as was his mother’s unhappy marriage. Shortly after his birth, Elsie Rowland, the now-divorced mother, placed her baby in a foster home, where he stayed for seven long years. Elsie eventually remarried and her new hus-band, Tadeus Brzozowski, a Polish airman who had stayed on in England afterthe war, adopted Richard and gave the child his surname. When Mr. Brzozowski reached his teens he learned there was a brother, Graham, who was nine years older. They had never met. His was an unhappy childhood but he grew tall and strong and joined the Nottingham police force, spending two of his five years there as a detective considered particularly adept at solving complicated cases. In 1970, Brzozowski and his then wife and two children came to Montreal on the Empress of Canada. They arrived with $240. Brzozowski lined up police work in Ottawa, where recruiting Staff Sergeant Kingsley (King) Ackland lent money to carry the family through until he could begin work. Mr. Brzozowski moved quickly through the ranks. From beat cop he soon joined the forensic unit for more than a decade, later returning as staff sergeant in charge of the unit. He completed a master’s degree in crimi-nology at the University of Ottawa. He and his first wife divorced. When he became interested in writing mysteries, he attended a workshop given by Ottawa writer Anne Stephenson. They married in 2000, the same year Mr. Brzozowski retired with the rank of detective inspector 1. “You couldn’t tell he was a cop out of uniform,” says Ian MacLeod, who covered the police beat for the Otta-wa Citizen for many years. And yet, out of uniform Mr. Brzozowski was still very much the detective, trying to solve a mystery that at times seemed unsolvable. His mother had died in 1967, taking whatever secrets she held to the grave. After living in Canada for more than a decade, Mr. Brzozowski returned to England and met older brother Graham in Nottingham. It was not a pleasant visit. There was anger in the air. The older man handed the visi-tor from Canada a photograph of their mother with a man wearing the uniform of an American soldier. “This is your father,” a terse Graham told his younger sibling. “‘Uncle’ Richard visited mother before you were born. You’re the bastard son of a chicken farmer from Florida!” “I will never forget those words,” says Mr. Brzozowski. “I was gobsmacked. I had always thought that Gra-ham and I shared the same father.” There were other photographs and some further information. Their mother’s divorce, Graham said, was the result of her affair with this man in the photograph. Mr. Brzozowski was left wondering if his father really was a chicken farmer who had fought in the Second World War. The following day, he went to the Nottingham registry office and was given a copy of his original birth certifi-cate. His mother had registered his given names as “Richard William.” But much to his surprise, the surname listed was one he’d never heard before: “Daugherty.” He had a name for his father. He had a face. But he still had no story. 1. According to Richard, the rank of Detecve Inspector did not exist within the Oawa Police at the me of his rerement. The rank was the choice of the G&M reporter. Richard rered as an Inspector.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM “I had spent my whole life in policing,” Richard Brzozowski says toward the end ofhis morning walk in the park. “I had to know the rest of it.” It was the early 1980s. No DNA records. No internet. He began, methodically, to collect addresses of Richard and William Daughertys in Florida, where the “chicken farmer” had supposedly lived. He found 76 variations, wrote snail-mail letters to every one of them, and waited. Many letters were returned unopened. A few re-plied,‘You’ve got the wrong guy,’ but not a single hopeful response. Mr. Brzozowski kept this research up for two decades until DNA testing became widely available to the pub-lic. He moved quickly on the new development, sending a sample of his own DNA to Ancestry.com and, later, to 23andMe.com. He received reports of possible second, third and fourth cousins, then of a possible first cousin,once removed. The younger man was not a Daugherty – the DNA link was through his mother – and did not live in Florida. Mr. Brzozowski tried multiple times to contact him in Texas, even writing to the man’s parents, but to no avail. He received no answers. The two DNA websites provided family trees and Brzozowski eventually tracked his heritage back to John Jack Daugherty, born in 1847 and father of 12 children, seven of them boys. He found one of the sons of John Jack, James Oscar Daugherty, born in1884 in Alabama. Could this be his grandfather? Researching meticulously – family members might say obsessively – Mr. Brzozowski found Second World War enlistment records for the sons of James Oscar, but no details on where the soldiers had been stationed. He needed one who had been in Nottingham over the fall and winter of 1944-45. Then he got lucky. A letter in the flurry of correspondence he had sent out to possible Daugherty connections brought a response. Sara Kirchner, a young woman and distant cousin in Texas, informed him that her own family history showed that James Oscar had four children, a girl and three boys, and she thought that one of the boys, William Ray Daugherty, was “the most likely candidate to be my father.” Unfortunately, William Ray Daugherty’s name had never turned up in the thousands of searches of family trees that Mr. Brzozowski conducted. One of the three sons had been too young for the war, the other much shorter than the soldier in the photograph with Mr. Brzozowski’s mother. William Ray Daugherty was a possi-bility. Kirchner knew that William Ray had become an optometrist in Muskogee, Okla., and that he flew a plane. He had been known by various names – “William,” “Willie,”“Bill,” “Willie Ray” – and a 1942 enlistment was found for a young optometrist who had been born in Gause, Tex., in 1909. The age would be about right. “Not a chicken farmer from Florida,” Mr. Brzozowski says, “although he may well have told my mother that he was. …” Now convinced his father might indeed be William Ray Daugherty, Mr. Brzozowski turned to Google last summer and found an optometry practice in the Oklahoma city that had a website with an “About Us” section. The practice had been purchased in1979 from “long-time Muskogee optometrist Dr. Bill Daugherty.” Eureka! ... Almost.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM In early September, Mr. Brzozowski put together a detailed package containing whathe knew so far, as well as the photograph of his mother and the soldier, and mailed itoff to the current operators of the optometry office. Ten days later, he received aresponse from Dr. Jerry Coburn, the owner. Greetings Richard, I must say your correspondence, which I received today, took me by surprise! Let me not beat around the bush. Bill Daugherty is definitely your father! You look a great deal like him from the picture you sent. I know he was in the Air Force during WW2 and was actually a glider pilot! Further correspondence convinced Mr. Brzozowski that finally, at the age of 76, he could say, “I know who my father was.” But he still had no absolute proof. He then turned his forensic talents to reviewing available military documents. In November of 1943, several of the American glider units were transported from the European theatre to “the Nottingham forest area of Eng-land.” He connected with an office of the National WWII Glider Pilots Association, which was located in the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Tex. The office confirmed flight officer William R. Daugherty’s membership in the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron. They had a photograph of the pilot, as well as dates of his missions and dec-orations.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM Mr. Brzozowski now knew for certain his father had been stationed at Barkston Heath Field in Grantham, close by Nottingham. He found a memoir by Major Steven C. Franklin, which said the men stationed there were well treated. “When not flying,” Franklin wrote, “the men kept their spirits up with movies at the base theatre, weekly Red Cross dances with the local girls.” Brzozowski presumed his mother had been a regular at the Palais de Danse in Nottingham. His birthdate sug-gested she would have become pregnant around November, 1944. His father got his transfer orders in March, 1945, and left Nottingham in May. “They knew each other for months,” he says. “It was not a one-night stand. “He must have known.” What flight officer William Ray Daugherty did, exactly, in the war remains somewhatof a mystery. He flew his glider – no engine, no protection, no way back – behind enemy lines, delivering troops and equipment for missions in Holland and Germany. Gliders were used, as well, during the Normandy invasion. Official records say that for “…meritorious achievement…exceptional airmanship and resolution in the execu-tion of missions” he was awarded the Air Medal. His unitalso received three Presidential Citations for “extraordinary heroism against the enemy.” He returned to Muskogee, opened his optometry practice and ran it until selling in1979. He died in 1997 and is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Tulsa, Okla. Mr. Brzozowski plans to visit his grave. The “chicken farmer from Florida” might very well have been a ruse, as Mr. Brzozowski suspected. There had been a wife, Lena Mae Daugherty, back in America. Further research produced real first cousins, Helen Peden and Eula Matthews, both alive and well in their 90s and living in Texas. They sent photographs and Mr. Brzozowski was stunned to find one of his father when they were exactly the same age – the two could pass for twins. When the Muskogee optometrist passed away, his beloved golf putter was given to a family member, who de-cided to pass it on to Mr. Brzozowski. The putter is now at Mr. Brzozowski’s home in Orleans, standing in a special place of honour. A note from 92-year-old cousin Eula arrived, telling Mr. Brzozowski that “the word that was missing in your life is ‘belong’. Now you know exactly where you fit in the family, in life, and in the world. You ‘belong!’ ” There was still more surprise to come. The Silent Wings research group told him that the members of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron who were engaged in Operation Market Garden were awarded Holland’s highest mili-tary honour, the Orange Lanyard. Could it be found? Still on the hunt, Mr. Brzozowski was able to contact the trustee of his father’s second wife, Verlyn, who died in 2009. The trustee said she still had various documents and photographs as well as “some other things that look like medals or things he wore on his uniform.” Mr. Brzozowski sent photographs of the aged decorations, some unidentifiable, tothe Silent Wings research group. The information that returned surprised Mr. Brzozowski: An expert-level marksmanship badge. Air medal. Good conduct medal.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM On Feb. 17, 2022, a package arrived from the estate trustee. It contained a jewelrybox, which held the old rib-bons and medals. Rings and cuff links and tie clips. A broken tooth. And three toothpicks. Mr. Brzozowski contacted the Paleo-DNA Laboratory at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. He shipped the broken tooth, the toothpicks, nail clippers and a small brush that had arrived in the package. On March 29, he received a report back from the laboratory. “A partial profile was obtained from the toothpicks. From the data generated fromthis investigation of these samples, the results are CONSISTENT with the individual belonging to the source of DNA on the toothpicks (Sample 1, Alleged Father) being the biological father of Richard Brzozowski (Sample 2, Child). “The calculated probability of paternity (assuming a prior probability of 0.5) is99.9999% from the genetic da-ta obtained.” 99.9999 per cent probability…make that a certainty. “So there you have it,” Richard Brzozowski says at the end of his long walk. “This 40-year investigation comes to a close. “It has been by far the longest case – certainly the one I never gave up on.” Nor has he given up yet.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM There still remains the mystery of the two Purple Hearts. On Monday I had the honour of receiving the Orange Lanyard, on behalf of my father, your distant uncle, Flight Officer Dr. William Ray Daugherty, from the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Canada, H. E. Ines Coppoolse, at the Ambassador’s Residence in Ottawa. We received the invitation last week, but were concerned there might be a request to postpone the ceremony if the Netherlands had beaten Argentina and were to play the semi-final FIFA game yesterday. (In which case, we’d know that everyone would be wanting to watch the game!) However, as things turned out, the ceremony went ahead. It was a beautiful day, driving along the George-Etienne Parkway beside the Ottawa River with the snow in the trees. Very appropriate for the event. In the group shot, Military Attaché to Canada, L/Col Mark de Wit is delivering the opening remarks with an outline of Flight Officer Dr. William Daugherty’s participation in Operation Market Garden. The Ambassador, who made the presentation also read out the Order that accompanied the awarding of his Air Medal. Photos were taken by the Assistant Military Attaché, Ms. Wendy Sewell. And, of course, my lovely wife, Anne, is in the picture. This has been a long journey and does bring some closure – though there are still unanswered questions. The Orange Lanyard

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Introduction This document is meant to introduce members of IPA Region 6 to the Ottawa Airport Watch (OAW) pro-gram’s purpose, activities, and value-added to crime prevention and community policing in the Ottawa and eastern Ontario region. Airport Watch (AW), as an aviation safety initiative, is currently active at 14 medium and major airports throughout Canada and the US, and has inspired likeminded programs in the UK and Aus-tralia. Several Region 6 members have already joined and remain active volunteers. Ottawa Airport Watch functions alongside the International Airport Watch Association (IAWA)—a network of volunteer subject matter experts, former and retired law enforcement and military, and those with extensive experience in the program, who facilitate the formation of new AW groups, further collaboration among exist-ing groups, and provides best practices and lessons learned to pertinent aviation safety and crime prevention partners. IAWA and the independent AW groups work closely with civil aviation management, law enforce-ment at the municipal, provincial/state, and federal level, as well as key corporate stakeholders in the aviation industry in North America and abroad. We continue to expand our partnership with the RCMP’s Airport-Coastal Watch program within Ontario (O Division) although this has slowed due to the lingering effects of COVID-19 and ongoing budget cuts for federal enforcement. As OAW now celebrates its 23rd year, the group is looking to further increase its volunteer membership. IPA Region 6 has most graciously offered to dissemi-nate this document to their members in order to advertise the program and provide contact information for those interested to join as volunteers across eastern Ontario. The Airport Watch program in brief—its objectives and activities In short, Airport Watch is a crime prevention program that utilizes local community members (oftentimes, but not always, aviation enthusiasts or “spotters”) as a complementary layer of security and safety awareness in and around the public access areas of airports. The concept functions like a sort of aviation-centric neighbour-hood watch, in collaboration with civil aviation management and the law enforcement of jurisdiction. While AW members take part in a number of unique opportunities, there is no financial incentive, nor does it confer special privileges of restricted area access (unless pre-approved in the form of tours or other activities). Airport Watch was formed in Ottawa in 1999, as a direct result of innovative efforts by officers in the RCMP and Ottawa Police. The program was designed to include the many frequent visitors to the airport perimeter who enjoy spotting activities, and utilize them as a complementary layer of safety and security—in no way is the group there to supplant existing methods, persons, or procedures. The concept soon expanded across North America, based on the “Ottawa Model” archetype, earning laudatory praise from law enforcement on both sides of the border (including being named an official best practice of the RCMP since June 2001 and runner-up as best safety program of the year by the Minister of Transport). It now maintains active programs from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, and Iqaluit to Fort Lauderdale. In order to mark its 20th year of operations in 2019, OAW has designed an exciting array of aviation-related activities—behind the scenes tours of public and private sector airport tenants, social events with our many partners, and activities at major airshows, like supporting the Safety Teams at Spectacle Aérien de Saint-Hubert (Montreal) in June and Aéro Gatineau in September. On 9 February, OAW members took part in the first such event—an exclusive insider-look at the critical care transport agency “Ornge,” with its hangar facility situated on Alert Road at the Ottawa Airport, which consisted of in-depth tours of its advanced AW139 helicopters and exten-sive paramedic capabilities. Introducing the Airport Watch community policing/crime prevention program to IPA Region 6 members

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Volunteers come from a wide array of professional and personal backgrounds—aviation enthusiasts, active and retired pilots, amateur and professional photographers, active and retired military or law enforcement, for-mer Air Cadets, employees who work in proximity to airport operations, or simply those who wish to contrib-ute to a highly valued crime prevention initiative. Volunteers are vetted by local law enforcement, are provided with awareness training, and are equipped with specialized clothing and signage that the member uses on pres-ence patrols. While this varies among the AW groups, such insignia may include door flags (similar to sports team flags), jackets, ball caps, and high-visibility AW vests. There is no schedule or mandated hours—members are encouraged to conduct presence patrols in and around the airport simply by walking or driving at their leisure in public access areas, most often while enjoying aviation spotting activities or taking part in the social/communal aspects thereof. Typically, AW volunteers are afforded the opportunity to meet other com-munity members of similar interest, as well as airport employees and members of the local law enforcement agency, both of whom routinely express their gratitude when they see AW members in and around the airport. In 2018, OAW members provided well over 1000 hours just at the Ottawa Airport perimeter. In terms of what AW does in practicality, volunteers “Observe, Record, Report” potential suspicious activity or unsafe issues in and around their airport of concern. This may include sightings of individuals using hand-held lasers or UAVs in an illegal manner, dumping personal refuse and trash in proximity of the airport, per-sons acting suspiciously in and around the perimeter, noting suspect aircraft, as well as more mundane, but no less critical, instances of foreign object debris (FOD) inside the perimeter, the presence of large wildlife (both terrestrial and airborne), or damage or theft to infrastructure (gates, fencing, lights, signage, etc.). Should something be spotted, members call into the airport’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) if at Ottawa Airport or the RCMP, who would take appropriate action. A crucial aspect of the program is that members never put themselves or others in danger. They are instructed to never confront a potential threat or vulnerability direct-ly, but rather to walk away and call the issue into the appropriate authority. In many cases, the mere presence of AW members wearing a high visibility safety vest can serve as a “soft deterrent” in preventing dangerous or criminal activity. Airport Watch as a program built around, and with, airport partners, can work in airports and aerodromes of any and all sizes. One such reflection of the group’s unique role in crime prevention is our cooperative effort with the RCMP’s national Coastal/Airport Watch awareness program mentioned earlier, under the direction of “O” Division’s Serious and Organized Crime Section. Within this framework, AW members are provided with awareness training and safety information to recognize aircraft possibly being employed illicitly. The RCMP also provide Coastal/Airport Watch documentation to volunteers and are encouraged to circulate this aware-ness information to the operators of smaller airfields in their respective areas, throughout eastern Ontario. Most such aerodromes are uncontrolled and in close proximity to the US border along the St. Lawrence River valley. The primary objective of this initiative is to assist smaller airport facilities in knowing what to keep an eye out for in terms of persons and aircraft that may be employed in trans-border drug trafficking, or other unlawful activity, and knowing who to report this to. This pilot program has been developed in coordination with the RCMP over the past year, with the hopes of making that cooperation fully rendered throughout all the Canadi-an AW groups. This initiative also makes it easier for AW members who live outside of the National Capital Region, to participate in nonetheless highly important and appreciated spotter/crime prevention activities, par-ticularly if travel to Ottawa is too far to do on a regular basis. Why join Airport Watch? Joining AW carries with it many interesting and pertinent ancillary benefits. The group maintains excellent horizontal relations with airport partners including fixed base operators (FBOs) at Ottawa International, in-cluding the RCMP, Ottawa Police, NavCanada, Transport Canada, Canadian Coast Guard, RCAF 412 (Transport) Squadron (and soon, AETE), First Air, National INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM

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Research Council, FedEx, and other private and public sector entities. The group puts together an exciting list of social and aviation safety-minded activities throughout the year—behind-the-scenes tours of airport opera-tions, insider looks into many of the above-mentioned facilities, pertinent awareness training and conferences, as well as social events, such as summer BBQs, monthly breakfasts, and other, more casual opportunities for friendly interaction and meet-and-greets. Many of these activities are undertaken in conjunction with OAW’s partners, including the other AW groups such as Montreal, Mirabel, and Toronto, as well as the organizations with which many of OAW members also volunteer, such as the earlier mentioned airshows, Vintage Wings of Canada, the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, fundraisers such as the “Plane-Pull,” and others. In terms of IPA members in particular, Airport Watch presents the above-mentioned benefits of activities, net-working, and civic engagement, alongside the added value of participating in a tried-and-tested community po-licing and crime prevention program. Police officers with an interest in joining AW are afforded the opportuni-ty to gain experience and knowledge of frontline community policing in and around aviation-related critical infrastructure. The utility of this approach to crime prevention is most evident in its use of reliable and vetted community members as sources—dedicated community members trained to “Observe, Record, Report” (as the AW motto states) potential instances of suspicious or unsafe issues in and around the airport area and its many facilities. The program’s longstanding partners in law enforcement in both Canada and the US have long rec-ognized the unique value of AW in terms of facilitating dialogue and awareness among community members and police officers. This presents officers at any stage of their career (or, indeed, those who are retired) the chance for additional experience in volunteer-based community policing, crime prevention, and aviation safety and security. Concluding remarks Ottawa Airport Watch is very excited to bring this program into the spotlight for the members of IPA Region 6. All of us involved agree wholeheartedly that this is an amazing opportunity for cooperative teamwork within your own communities and further afield, if that is what you may be seeking. We would like to enthusiastically welcome you to check out the group on its official website, its Facebook page, as well as to contact the under-signed, Sgt (ret.) Jacques Brunelle, RCMP, who has been a member of IPA Regions 2 and 6 for 31 years and founded the AW program in Ottawa in 1999 with Ottawa Police. It is our intention to present in greater detail the Airport Watch program, its activities, and its value-added to the aviation industry at an information session, to be announced in the near future. Please email airportwatch@gmail.com to indicate your interest. We have taken the liberty of also including in this package an article recently published by one of our OAW volunteers in the UK-based Crisis Response Journal, which elaborates further on the Airport Watch crime prevention con-cept in both theory and practice. The article may be found HERE. We hope that you will join us as “Partners in Safer Communities and Airports.” Jacques Brunelle Director, IAWA airportwatch@gmail.com Rob Collinson Chair, Ottawa Airport Watch Liaison Eastern Ontario Costal/Airport Watch

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INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM The Procedure for Travel Assistance aims to standardize the process of helping IPA members (both individuals and groups) requesng assis-tance when travelling and vising IPA secons worldwide. Common re-quests include hotel/accommodaon/dining recommendaons, vising police staons, ride-alongs, meeng local members and being hosted, car hire and places to visit. It is not necessary to use this form when personal contacts are already in place (e.g. vising friends) or in case of an emergency. Is an International Travel Form necessary? A short look on the events and news page of the IPA Internaonal webpage will illustrate the variety of op-ons available, ranging from Friendship Weeks in Italy or Japan, to special interest events you can join in Spain or Ireland. Whether you fancy hiking in the Austrian Alps or geng to know the treasures of Sri Lanka, the IPA is able to oer something for everyone. In addion to organized group travel opons, the IPA also oers assistance when travelling on your own or I’m planning a trip, when should I submit a travel form? The IPA Internaonal Procedure for Travel Assistance recommends at least three (3) months for group travel and one (1) month for individual (family) travel. The foregoing deadlines are normally sucient, however, some coun-tries receive many more visitors that others so the earlier you can sub-mit your travel form, the beer your chances. If you have any quesons about travel, contact the Region 6 INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

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Where do I visit to learn more about Friendship Weeks and Other activities? Travel: The “IPA Way” The IPA International Website maintains a database of all types of IPA events occurring across the globe. To access the database, visit the site by clicking on the link below: IPA EVENTS IPA Houses The IPA owns more than 40 properties in 14 IPA sections where mem-bers can stay in reasonably priced accommodation. With locations ranging from sightseeing hotspots such as Paris and Ber-lin, to the beautiful winter wonderland surroundings of Lapland in Fin-land, to our apartment on the Australian Gold Coast, IPA Houses offer a unique opportunity to travel the world and meet local members. Alongside these houses we have hundreds of ‘other accommodation’ options available, including members’ holiday homes and discounts at hotels, with the number of options increasing each year. Have a look in our IPA Hosting Book, which is regularly updated and provides an overview of each IPA House and Other Accommodation options CLICK ON THE GRAPHIC ABOVE TO ACCESS THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION - CANADA REGION 6 OTTAWA - WWW.IPAOTTAWA.COM If you moved in 2023, please submit a change of mailing address form found HERE. Membership Cards mailed to the incorrect address may result in administrave fees being levied against the member. 2024 MEMBERSHIP DUES 2024 membership dues remain the same at $35.00. Members who have already paid for 2024 will receive their new 2024 membership cards in December. A list of those members who have not yet paid their 2024 dues will be sent out as usual. Members may opt to pay for 1, 2 or 3 years. Dues are payable before 31 December 2023. IMPORTANT: If you believe you will be late paying your dues, please send an email to ipaoawa@rogers.com

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JOIN THE IPA The International Police Association is the largest friendship organization for law enforcement in the world with over 369,000 members in 68 countries across the globe. The IPA is strictly a Non Prot Organization that does not have any political, religious or employment aflia-tions or objectives. The IPA is solely an inclusive friend-ship organization that welcomes all eligible members. Membership is open to: • all serving and retired police ofcers or sworn peace ofcers whose primary func-tions are the prevention of crime, enforcement of municipal, provincial or federal law and the preservation and maintenance of public peace. • any serving Auxiliary Police Ofcer, Reserve Constable or Military Police Reservist or any former Auxiliary Police Ofcer, Reserve Constable or Military Police Reserv-ist who has served a minimum of ve years and has left the their service in good standing. • full time civilian employees of a police service who have completed ve (5) years of service and who work directly with front line ofcers receiving and/or dispatching calls for service or on the scene of crimes / forensic investigations. Region 6 Ottawa has a membership of over 130 members and is governed by a volun-teer Executive Committee. Our membership consists of former and serving members of municipal, provincial, federal and international law enforcement agencies. Region 6 is bounded by the Ottawa River to the North, the Province of Quebec to the East, the St Lawrence River and Lake Ontario to the South and the Western bounda-ries Lennox & Addington and Renfrew Counties to the West. To Join, visit: https://www.ipaottawa.com/join If you have a question, please contact us at: ipaottawa@rogers.com

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