Commissionaires B.C. awards bursary to criminology student
Written by Staff Monday, 09 July 2012 13:17
Twenty-year-old SFU student Canon Wong has a goal of joining the Vancouver Police Department at the age of 22. The average age of a successful applicant is 26. Wong is doing everything he can to prepare himself for a career in policing, including joining the Canadian Forces as a reservist, and working as a guard with Commissionaires B.C. He also volunteers with the South Vancouver Community Policing Centre.
Working for Commissionaires has been rewarding in more ways than Wong anticipated, as he was recently awarded the organization’s Charlie Brown Memorial Bursary, valued at $1,000. Frank Richter, Chair of the Board for Commissionaires B.C., presented Canon Car-Lung Wong with the award at a ceremony at Commissionaires’ Vancouver office on 28 June 2012. Canon will be entering his final year of a four-year criminology degree at SFU in the fall, and the bursary will go towards his tuition.
Charles Monteith “Charlie” Brown was Commissionaires BC’s longest serving commissionaire. “One of Charlie Brown’s greatest pleasures was giving back to his community. ‘Giving back’ was a clear message that Charlie wanted to send to everyone he worked with,” says Jim Billinger, member of the Charlie Brown Bursary Selection Committee. “This year Canon Wong was the stand-out applicant. For someone so young and with so many years of ‘giving back’ ahead of him, the Selection Committee was really impressed by Canon’s determination to make a success of a career in which he would be actively serving others.”
Wong began working with Commissionaires in March 2011 in the reserve division. His jobs as a security guard at the RCMP’s E-Division and with the New Westminster Police Service where he works as a custodial guard overseeing prisoners have allowed him to gain first-hand experience of working in policing environments.
“The formal and informal education I have gained by being involved in a small way with operations at E-Division and the New West Police services has been invaluable,” says Wong. “Also, as so many commissionaires are former members of the Canadian Forces or police, I have had the chance to experience the kind of professionalism, camaraderie and team-work that I value so much.”
In order to help pay for tuition and living expenses, and to help his single-mom Monita with family expenses, Wong also works as a bank teller and helps out at the VPD’s Tactical Training Centre as a role player during training sessions. Wong plans to submit his application to the VPD next year.
Charles Monteith “Charlie” Brown was Commissionaires BC’s longest serving commissionaire. “One of Charlie Brown’s greatest pleasures was giving back to his community. ‘Giving back’ was a clear message that Charlie wanted to send to everyone he worked with,” says Jim Billinger, member of the Charlie Brown Bursary Selection Committee. “This year Canon Wong was the stand-out applicant. For someone so young and with so many years of ‘giving back’ ahead of him, the Selection Committee was really impressed by Canon’s determination to make a success of a career in which he would be actively serving others.”
Wong began working with Commissionaires in March 2011 in the reserve division. His jobs as a security guard at the RCMP’s E-Division and with the New Westminster Police Service where he works as a custodial guard overseeing prisoners have allowed him to gain first-hand experience of working in policing environments.
“The formal and informal education I have gained by being involved in a small way with operations at E-Division and the New West Police services has been invaluable,” says Wong. “Also, as so many commissionaires are former members of the Canadian Forces or police, I have had the chance to experience the kind of professionalism, camaraderie and team-work that I value so much.”
In order to help pay for tuition and living expenses, and to help his single-mom Monita with family expenses, Wong also works as a bank teller and helps out at the VPD’s Tactical Training Centre as a role player during training sessions. Wong plans to submit his application to the VPD next year.
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