Officers of the Port Hope Police Department 1959
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from The Siren 1959
PORT HOPE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief of the eight man team is an Ex-Mountie, C. W. Graham, who is a veteran of two World Wars and the proud holder of nine War medals, raised in the ranks, to that of Captain, during World War two. Won the Military medal in World War I.
Chief Graham, served twenty-nine years with the R.C.M.P. and on retirement from the famed force took up the duties of Chief Constable in Port Hope in 1948.
Chief Graham in the Past has been Body Guard for such distinguished personalities, as President Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, President Truman, Madame Chiang Kai Shek, President Eisenhower, Gen. DeGaulle and was Liaison Officer for the present Queen Mother and her husband the late King George VI when they visited Canada in 1939.
All other officers of the Port Hope Police Dept. are Veterans of World War II with the exception of Constables A. O'Neill, Vern Lees and R. Johnston, who were too young to join the Forces at that time.

CONSTABLE R. J. O'BRIEN
Port Hope Police, president of the Association.
Born in Bancroft in 1915 and educated at The Ridge, Ontario, Bob O'Brien started work as an Ontario licensed guide for hunters and fishermen in north Hastings County and in the Haliburton area. In 1937 he became a forest ranger for the Department of Lands and Forests.
Moving to Port Hope in 1940, Constable O'Brien worked at the Port Hope Sanitary plant and served as a member of the Frontiersmen under Lieut. P. R. Martin. He did police work under Chief Tom Murphy of the Port Hope force, and on the side did guard duty for the Governor-General and for the Duke of Kent when he visited the General Motors plant at Oshawa.
Serving in Canada and overseas as a member of the Provost Corps, Constable O'Brien returned to Port Hope and to the Port Hope Sanitary Manufacturing Company, until 1952, when he joined the Port Hope Force.
In 1957, Bob was elected president of our association, and was returned to office by acclamation for a second term.
He lives at 1 Oxford Street, Port Hope, with his wife, Kay, and two sons, Larry, 16, and Gerald, 14, who both attend Port Hope High School.



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