Certificate of Distinction

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Constable Terry Simm
Sarnia Police Service

For the past 18 years, Constable Terry Simm has been the mainstay of the Sarnia Police Service's youth branch. Throughout his busy policing career, he's been dedicated to getting to the heart of youth crime issues.

When a white supremacist group started a campaign to recruit young people from schools in Sarnia, Ont., Simm worked hard to deal with the problem. In addition to confronting the group's leaders, he educated parents, teachers and students about the threats they posed. As a result of these efforts, he was asked to help create Hate Crime: Writing on the Wall, a training video for Ontario police officers.

Simm was also the driving force behind his police service's involvement with Rebound, a program that steers troubled youth away from a life of crime through skill building sessions. The ten weekly sessions focus on several different themes, including communication, decision making, goal setting, and conflict resolution.

Candidates for this program are selected on the basis of police referral following a thorough investigation of their particular incident, and Simm has often suggested the program to courts as an alternative measure to incarceration or other consequences.

Simm would also go to great lengths to arrange the proper counseling for youth in conflict with the law.

After 35 years as a police officer, Simm retired in 2003.

Contact person:
Constable Terry Simm
(519) 542-4778

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