Community Safety Career Achievement Award:
Cpl. Bill Lumsdon (retired)
Cpl. Bill Lumsdon followed in his brother's footsteps and joined the RCMP in 1975. It was in these years when he became exposed to grassroots community policing while becoming engaged with the First Nations communities and performing general duty police work.
He brought his love for the sports to the communities he has served by volunteering to coach basketball and organizing sports events.
During the late 1980s, a move to Portage La Prairie and his subsequent involvement in the community made Lumsdon realize the key to policing a community lay in the relationships he formed with various stakeholders.
He had formed a vital link between youth in the community and was building a rapport with youth before community policing became a recognized philosophy.
One of the highlights of his career was when he introduced the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program into schools.
In the last four years of his career, he served on the Crime Prevention Unit in the Richmond Detachment.
He made incredible progress in reaching out to the community and became a one-man community policing initiative for the community of East Richmond.
Community Safety Career Achievement Award:
Captain Bill Mulder
Captain Bill Mulder has been with the Richmond Fire-Rescue Department since 1981. Mulder is the captain at Steveston Fire Hall.
Working closely with the community, Mulder and his crew provide fire and emergency medical coverage along with the emergency response partners.
Mulder is in charge of organizing the pre-fire planning for Richmond Fire-Rescue, which allows all responding fire crews to attend to their emergency duties efficiently and effectively, by creating site specific mapping of buildings and properties that are of particular risk to the community.
He is the lead for the Richmond Fire-Rescue Honour Guard and has been an integral part in the ongoing coordination and recruiting of the Honour guard for numerous special events.
Mulder's love of the pomp and circumstance of the Honour Guard duties makes the job of organizing and following through on very critical points of protocol just another day in his life.
His pursuit for marching perfection is a continuous habit that seems hard to break.
Community Safety Career Achievement Award:
Cal McCarthy
Cal McCarthy retired from the Canadian Coast Guard in January, following 32 years of loyal service as an electronic technologist.
McCarthy began his marine adventures as a teenager on the waters surrounding Richmond.
He took his marine electronics technology training at BCIT and cut his teeth as a technician with a Richmond company and BC Ferries, before settling with the Canadian Coast Guard in 1981.
McCarthy has had a lifelong love of the water, and the business of the Coast Guard. In his private time, he's been an avid boater and fisherman.
In 1983, he helped survivors and RCMP divers with the rescue of two fishermen trapped in an overturned fishboat.
That incident became the genesis for what is today one of the most capable Dive Rescue Units in the world - based right here in Richmond.
He leaves us with a reputation for concern and compassion for his crews and for the readiness of the vessels serving Richmond.
For a distinguished career invested deeply in the safety of Canadians, McCarthy receives this career achievement award.
