Honour Roll

2006-05-14

Age: 41

Constable Doucet was in a police cruiser, with his partner driving the vehicle, when it collided with a van traveling in the opposite direction. All three persons were taken to the Sault area hospital where Constable Doucet succumbed to his injuries.

2006-05-05

Age: 37

Constable Atkinson was working in plain clothes when he came across two suspicious men. He approached the individuals and identified himself as police. A firearm was produced and the officer was shot.

Although struck fatally by a bullet, Constable Atkinson was able to return fire. Two suspects were apprehended in the area and arraigned the following day on first degree murder charges.

2005-07-20

Age: 29

Shortly after 2:00 a.m. on the morning of July 20, 2005, two Bracebridge OPP officers were dispatched to a domestic dispute call west of Bala. The two officers in a marked OPP cruiser were travelling westbound on Muskoka Road 169 when they were involved in a collision with a moose crossing the roadway. After striking the animal, the cruiser came to rest in the south ditch. The weather was foggy and the moose was on the roadway at the time of the collision.

Constable Potts was driving the cruiser and was pronounced deceased at the scene.

2004-11-26

Age: 49

Ontario Provincial Police Constable Michael Siydock passed away while on duty on November 26, 2004. Constable Siydock was the first officer to respond to a serious motor vehicle collision on Highway 401 near Milton. A vehicle had rolled down a steep embankment and the occupants of the vehicle were trapped. Constable Siydock made every effort to aid the victims and in doing so suffered a major heart attack and died while on duty. He was a seven year veteran and is survived by a wife and three children.

2004-05-23

Age: 32

Constable Boutilier was responding to an Emergency Response Team call out. He was traveling on Highway 15 near Seeley Bay in the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands, when a vehicle heading southbound pulled out to pass other traffic. The female driver failed to pull back into her own lane hitting the cruiser sending it into the ditch. Cst. Boutilier died in Kingston hospital from his injuries.

2004-05-15

Age: 39

At approximately 03:00 hours, Constable Garrett responded to a call involving the alleged robbery of an 18-year-old Cobourg resident. Constable Garrett was unaware that in fact there was no robbery and he was being lured into a planned ambush.

When Constable Garrett arrived he began taking the details of the alleged robbery and radioed his colleagues a description of a suspect. This left Constable Garrett alone with the supposed victim while the other officers searched for a suspect. While trying to help this apparent victim, Constable Garrett was suddenly attacked with a knife and suffered a mortal wound to his throat. Although dying, Constable Garrett somehow managed to draw his firearm and pursue his attacker, firing off his entire clip of 17 bullets. Constable Garrett was able to wound his murderer with his last shot before he succumbed to his injury.

Constable Garrett's murderer, Troy Davey, was arrested at the Cobourg Hospital when he attended as a result of the gun shot injury.

It was later learned through the investigation that Davey's actions that night were part of a larger, detailed scheme. After killing the police officer, he planned to steal a car and kill two attendants at a local gas station, then go to the Cobourg Police Station and set off two homemade anti-personnel explosive devices. He also planned to shoot police officers and civilian employees at the police station using a shotgun in his possession and the firearm stolen from the officer he had initially murdered.

Constable Garrett's heroic actions while he was mortally wounded thus prevented a greater tragedy by halting this heinous chain of events.

2003-09-20

Age: 55

Constable Flagg, of the Kingston RIDE Unit was killed when his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck during a high-speed pursuit near Almonte, Ontario.

John Arthur Barry, a career criminal, led police on a wild 40-minute chase in a stolen Jeep, covering more than 75 km and reached speeds of 140 km/h. He was passing vehicles on the right, drove across sidewalks and the centre line and raced through red lights in Smiths Falls before being spotted by an OPP helicopter. Constable Flagg, hearing the chase on the police radio while he was at the Ontario Ploughing Match near Carleton Place, gave chase on his motorcycle.

After running over a spike belt placed by Ottawa Police on March Rd., the stolen Jeep crossed the centre line and collided with a pickup truck driven by retired Ottawa Police Sgt. Robert Smith. The collision sent Smith's truck spinning into the path of Flagg's motorcycle, killing the officer instantly.

2003-05-23

Age: 49

On May 16th 2003 Constable Shrive was on radar patrol, westbound on Hwy #17 between Storyland Rd. and Bruce St. in Horton Twp. when he attempted to make a "U" turn. A tractor trailer following the cruiser collided into the driver's door of the cruiser. Phil was taken to "hospital in Renfrew, then airlifted to hospital in Ottawa. He died seven days later from his injuries.

2002-08-21

Age: 41

Senior Constable Kuzmich was outside of his cruiser on County Road 4 and Concession 10 in Bradford investigating the theft of a motorcycle at 10:40 p.m. when he was hit and killed instantly by a Dodge Durango.

Constable Kuzmich's death was the first fatality of an officer on duty in the history of the South Simcoe force.

Three hours later, the motorcycle rider was killed when the bike left the road about 12 kilometres north of the first accident site.

20002-05-07

Age: 32

Constable Paul Neudert, and Sgt. Lyle Johnson both of the Walpole Island First Nations Police were driving their own cruisers both heading towards London, when they collided at an intersection. The two cruisers colliding sent the Chevy Impala and the GMC Yukon into the deep northeast ditch with the Impala landing on its roof. Both officers were taken to Sydenham Hospital where Cst. Neudert died from his injuries. Sgt. Johnson remained in hospital in Wallaceburg in serious condition following the crash.

He had prevously been a member of the Hamilton Police Service.