RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT
THROUGH THE YEARS
1976
This year I was assigned the role of Crime Prevention/ Community Relations Coordinator for
Langley Detachment. Straight days, Monday to Friday. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
Crime Prevention was a brand-new phenomenon in
policing. Been done for years informally, but now it had
become formalized, and the concept took off like a
rocket. It was almost a contest who could have the best
programme.
Local politicians and business people got on the
bandwagon, and I was very fortunate in being provided
by a local car dealership with my very own vehicle (a
small 4-banger), complete with logo. Unfortunately, that
didn’t last much longer than a year, as the RCMP
eventually took a dim view of ‘freebies’, so the car had
to go back, and I was once again forced to try and get a
police car when required…which was often. Nice while
it lasted though.
I was constantly busy with presentations on a multitude
of topics to a variety of schools and community groups,
and my creative juices overflowed as I created and
pumped out pamphlets etc., by the ton, compliments of
the Municipal printing facilities.
It was late in the year, while I was away on a course,
that Sharon phoned me after finding out that she would
be having twins. Copious quantities of beer were
consumed that night.
Favourite place to watch TV –
in an empty diaper case
Abbotsford – 1976
Driving a real police car
Langley Detachment – 1976
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