On Saturday, November 13, 2004, Auxiliary Constable Glen Evely was killed when a suspect in a stolen vehicle collided with the patrol car he was riding in while on duty as a Sworn Auxiliary Member of the RCMP.

All Auxiliary Members of the RCMP take an oath when sworn in and are provided full Peace Officer status while in uniform and on-duty.  They are respected members of the RCMP and give thousands of hours of their time annually to their communities.

Mr. Bob Lyon, coordinator of the Canadian Police and Peace Officer's Memorial has stated that while A/Cst. Evely's death was a tragedy, he doesn't qualify for the monument because he was an Auxiliary Constable, not a regular member of the force.

Mr. Lyon further stated that "Glen Evely was presented twice to the board.  And both times they turned it down because he was not a sworn peace officer doing his job.  Simple as that."

It is obvious from the above statement that the board of the Memorial is mis-informed with respect to our Auxiliary Constables being sworn Peace Officers and it is time to set the record straight.

By signing this petition, we ask that Mr. Lyon and the board of the Canadian Police and Peace Officer's Memorial accept Auxiliary Constable Glen Evely's name for addition to the honour roll.

Very simply, all Auxiliary and Reserve Constables are SWORN PEACE OFFICERS, while IN UNIFORM, and ON DUTY.  A/Cst. Glen Evely met these conditions when his life was so tragically ended.  Give A/Cst. Glen Evely the honour he deserves and change the policy to accept Canadian Auxiliary and Reserve Members to the Canadian Police and Peace Officer's Memorial.

If you agree that this criteria must be changed to include the hundreds of PEACE OFFICER volunteers in our country, please sign the petition and pass the link along to all the contacts in your email address book, both at home and at work. We need your support!

UPDATES TO INFORMATION

UPDATE - February 2007: The Canadian Police and Peace Officer's Memorial (under the direction of the CPPA and CPOMA) has recently changed their criteria, as outlined in the "Criteria" section on the above website, to SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDE all Auxiliary and other Volunteers from the Memorial, leaving no doubt they do not consider the work done by volunteer PEACE OFFICERS to be worthy of the Memorial. The site now states that to be considered for the Memorial, the person must have been a full time, paid employee.

UPDATE - MARCH 1, 2007: In researching the memorial applications further, it has been determined that there are three votes on the committee to accept names for the memorial. The three groups are the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association (Police Unions), and the Canadian Peace and Police Officers Memorial Association.

The current vote results for accepting Auxiliary and Reserve volunteers on the national memorial are TWO (2) AGAINST, ONE (1) FOR. The only association currently supporting the application to have Auxiliary and Reserve members accepted to the memorial is the Chiefs of Police. The Police UNIONS are the main organization that is against this effort.

Municipal Police Officers: In addition to signing the petition, please contact your union representative and tell them you want their vote changed. We need support from the field to get union management to correct this injustice towards volunteers.

General Public: Please contact your local Member of Parliament and ask them to get involved. You can find out who your MP is by clicking here.