A salute to a cop’s cop

by TheSpecTV | 169 days ago | 1248 page views
In: TheSpecTV, TheSpecTV News

John Harris became one of the most respected officers in his 40-year career with the Hamilton Police. His highly polished boots hide a secret no one would suspect.

He leads constables. And the chief. He is a mentor, a confidante, an adviser, an inspiration. He is a mountain of a man who tries to blend into the thin blue line. He embodies all that is good about old school policing yet embraces the transition to a new police culture.

John Harris has accomplished this while wearing the modest stripes of a patrol sergeant. And a prosthetic leg.

“A sergeant is the last rank out on the street,” he explains in a voice that starts somewhere deep within his 6-foot-6, 285-pound frame.

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