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Thursday November 15, 2012
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Surrey Mountie killed in the line of duty
by Sheila Reynolds
EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER
CONDOLENCES ARE pouring in for the family and friends of the Mountie killed early Tuesday morning in a crash with a transport truck. Const. Adrian Oliver, 28, was on duty when his unmarked police vehicle and a semi-trailer collided in the intersection of 64 Avenue and 148 Street in Newton at approximately 5 a.m. on Nov. 13. Oliver had been a police officer in Surrey for three-and-a-half years and was a second-generation RCMP member. Colleagues at the Surrey RCMP’s main detachment wore black and blue ribbons to honour Oliver as they listened to the official announcement of his death to media Tuesday morning. Several wept over the sudden loss of their friend and co-worker. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Craig Callens said it was an “extremely difficult and sad day for the RCMP,” and extended condolences to Oliver’s friends and family, including his mother, father and two brothers.
A photo of Const. Adrian Oliver sits on a table near the Surrey RCMP detachment’s Wall of Honour.
See OLIVER / Page 5
Surrey RCMP’s fallen officers
It has been 37 years since the city’s detachment lost a member on the job CONST. ADRIAN OLIVER is the first Surrey RCMP officer killed in the line of duty since 1975. There have been four other onduty Surrey Mountie deaths since the federal force took over policing the city in 1951. The last officer to die was Const.
John Brian Baldwinson, who perished on Oct. 28, 1975. He was driving late at night in poor visibility when he struck a horse and was killed. Const. John Terrance Draginda was responding to a report of a collision when he was involved in a crash with another vehicle Sept. 29, 1974. See WALL OF HONOUR / Page 5
Surrey RCMP Constables (from left) John Baldwinson, John Draginda, Roger Pierlet and Archille Lepine.
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