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RCMP officer living dream serving in <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n home community of East Hants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n RAWDON\/MOUNT UNIACKE:<\/strong> For Cpl. Evan Collier, the appeal to being a police officer\u2014and now stationed in his home community-is simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery day is different,\u201d said Cpl. Collier, a father of four, said about serving the community with East Hants RCMP in a recent interview with The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou go to work every day and it\u2019s different,\u201d he said. \u201cNothing is ever the same, and that just keeps it fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has wanted to be an RCMP officer since a family member did a Grade 6 heritage fair project on the police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. Collier landed in East Hants in July 2022 and has been loving it. He looks after the Rawdon and Mount Uniacke detachments with East Hants RCMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main task of his job as the one that looks after both is that they have everything they need and look after the members assigned to both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being from the Rawdon area\u2014and with plenty of family throughout the Hants North region\u2014makes policing the area fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like being home,\u201d he said, adding his grandmother is a McLearn from South Rawdon, where he spent many summers at the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be working in a place your familiar with and already connected too. It helps with being responsible for that area and makes you give it your all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. Collier, who just transferred in from Nunavut, joined the RCMP in 2007, making this his 15th<\/sup> year of wearing the RCMP uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was initially posted in Leduc, Alta., where he spent seven years; transferred into the RCMP musical ride where he did one summer of training and two summers of touring, getting to ride for the Queen\u2019s birthday in 2016; Ottawa in federal RCMP sections. In 2019, he transferred to New Minas; then accepted a promotion to run the Baker Lake, Nunavut detachment in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fourteen months later the position there was transitioned to a Sgt. spot so he had to be transferred out, and he was offered Rawdon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI jumped on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the Alberta posting, a fellow Rawdon native, Walter Page, was there at the same time. He had spent lots of time with Page in 4-H growing up. He\u2019s still out west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n When he\u2019s on shift, he usually starts his day in Rawdon with a stop at the Country Store where he chats with the people there and give them a hard time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. Collier counts his blessings at being fortunate enough to get a posting in his home province and county. He notes there are many N.S. RCMP officers that don\u2019t get this opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s really neat to be home,\u201d said Cpl. Collier. \u201cI never thought in a thousand years I\u2019d be posted here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it also has its challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are situations where people know you or know your family, but you still have to remain impartial and do the job,\u201d he said. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been too bad. I find a lot of people react better because they treat you differently knowing your from Hants County. They give you more time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. Collier hopes to stay in N.S., but with the RCMP nothing is guaranteed as he could be asked to transfer elsewhere. He said he has at least a minimum of another 10 years before he could retire but added he probably won\u2019t and will keep going as long as he can. He would be happy to move up one more rank, but if not that\u2019s okay as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He spoke about the strain put on the frontline officers with the anti-police rhetoric that has built up over the past few years. That rhetoric has affected everything, including recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt can be challenging at times, but you still take pride in what you do,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are different people who spin things one way or another, but you just work with it. ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. Collier said part of his job as a frontline officer is to show them that policing isn\u2019t all that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can still be a nice person. You can still be a cop and show people what you see in the news isn\u2019t always right,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to make sure people have a better interaction with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll of our interactions isn\u2019t always positive because of what we deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said it\u2019s been hard seeing officers dying in the Line of Duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a constant reminder not to be complacent. It\u2019s a constant reminder that this is a dangerous job,\u201d said Cpl. Collier. \u201cHistorically, I think N.S. has been on the safer side of policing, but you can see that is changing now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople are changing, the world is changing so that affects our job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s the best part of being an RCMP officer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter dealing with something serious, and you get the reaction from people that truly, really needed help and you could help them and they come back and say what we did for them was helpful,\u201d he responded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have got lots of letters from parents and kids saying what I did was helpful. That\u2019s the best reward ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”115″] [adrotate banner=”105″] RCMP officer living dream serving in home community of East Hants RAWDON\/MOUNT UNIACKE: For Cpl. Evan Collier, the appeal to being a police officer\u2014and now stationed in his home community-is simple. \u201cEvery day is different,\u201d said Cpl. 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\u201cIt forces us to change and be more open to new ideas. People get stuck with tradition in the past. I think it\u2019s time to move forward with modern policing and be more open.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n