Supt. Warren Brown, CrimeStoppers President Ron Polillo, S/Sgt Marc Pelletier, Cpl Kyle Trask and CrimeStoppers  past President Jack Hooper- photo 250News

Prince George, B.C. –  It’s a three-peat for “B” Watch of the Prince George RCMP Detachment.

For the third consecutive year,   that watch  has been named the “General Duty Watch of the Year” by CrimeStoppers in Prince George.  “B” Watch leader, Staff Sergeant Marc Pelletier gives full credit to his team “It’s a bunch of guys that are out there who are really hard working and we really appreciate CrimeStoppers being  supportive of our efforts out there.” S/Sgt Pelletier  is  reluctant to  pat his leadership style as a contributing factor “I’m an old school police officer and we believe in these tips, (from CrimeStoppers) and that these tips work, so we use them as much as we can.”

It was a tip to CrimeStoppers that  ended  up with Corporal Kyle Trask being named Officer of the year.   The tip got Cpl Trask following  bread crumbs of evidence,  and  the eventual arrest of a man wanted for a sexual assault on a teenaged girl.  “I was really surprised to hear I was  going to be named Officer of the year” says Trask “It’s the first time I’ve won something like this” says the eleven year  RCMP veteran.    Corporal Trask leads the Downtown Safety Unit.

Prince George Detachment Superintendent  Warren Brown  “CrimeStoppers and the RCMP in Prince George have worked very well together over the years, We’ve had some very good success.”  Superintendent  Brown said the  tipsters  who  contact CrimeStoppers “Are the eyes and ears for us on the street often.  I can’t tell you how invaluable the program has been to us not only  in this past year,  but in years previous.”