Cop
Forty-Three Years In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
by Bill Sharp

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COP is the true story of Bill Sharp’s service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1968 to 2011. For over forty-three years he served in British Columbia where he upheld the law in Trail, Burnaby, Castlegar, Surrey, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Langley. These are his stories of basic training, followed by first-hand accounts of violence, tragedy and interesting events—experiences recounted with honesty and humour. It is a lucid, credible and articulate memoir of the author’s career as a front-line policeman in the RCMP.

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COP is the true story of Bill Sharp’s service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1968 to 2011. For over forty-three years he served in British Columbia where he upheld the law in Trail, Burnaby, Castlegar, Surrey, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Langley. These are his stories of basic training, followed by first-hand accounts of violence, tragedy and interesting events—experiences recounted with honesty and humour. It is a lucid, credible and articulate memoir of the author’s career as a front-line policeman in the RCMP. - Renée Layberry, Editor

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About the Author Bill Sharp grew up in Lacombe and Barrhead, Alberta, where he became interested in becoming a policeman at an early age. In 1968 he joined the RCMP, and after basic training he worked in nine detachments in the Metro Vancouver and West Kootenay areas of BC. All of his career in the Force was in uniform general duty where he served as a first-responder, patrol supervisor, watch commander, and a member of the Emergency Response Team. Among other awards he has earned in his service, he was honoured by the Insurance Corporation of BC for his dedicated impaired driving enforcement and the instructing of DUI investigations. Sharp retired from the RCMP in 2011. He is the father of two children, and he and his wife live in Langley, BC

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