From Polytechnique to Dawson: Learning and improving our intervention and collaboration
	Yvan Delorme
	Director, Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal
Montreal had been the theatre of 3 majors events involving firearms in colleges since 1989. December 6 1989, École polytechnique, a lone shooter killed 14 young women inside classrooms. August 24 1992, Valery Fabrikant, a teacher at Concordia University, shot 4 of his colleague out of rage. September 13 2006, Dawson College, a young man turned is despair into action and kill one student, wounding many others. From those events, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) learned and adapted his intervention and, more to the point, the way we collaborate with schools and colleges on our territory. Director Delorme, a 22 years veteran, will explain the evolution of the police operative methods regarding those events and the way we were able to prevent a more deadly outcome at Dawson. Furthermore, he will explain how the SPVM enhance his collaboration with all levels of the education system since Dawson and why the success of any intervention in school require high level of collaboration between all agencies involved in the operation.
Since April 4, 2005, Mr. Delorme is at the head of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). Before his appointment as Director of the Service, he was Assistant director and Chief of the Service à la communauté of the Northern region. At 42 at the time, and after 21 years of service, he was one of the youngest officers to be appointed Director of the SPVM. Mr. Delorme stands out because of his exceptional career during which he moved up in rank and gained a vast experience at the SPVM. In less than ten years, he moved up from the rank of Detective-sergeant to that of Director. A true dynamo, he also earned a Master’s degree in public administration from the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) in 2002. He started with the SPVM in 1983 and was first a patrol and then a training officer. In 1988, he joined several important investigations as an undercover agent in the Division des stupéfiants. In 1995, he became part of the famous “Carcajou,” a mixed regional squad against criminal bikers. As Detective-sergeant, Mr. Delorme then co-ordinated important operations and managed the human, physical and financial resources of the project. In 1996, he reorganized the undercover agent unit as Detective-lieutenant of the Division des stupéfiants. Furthermore, he created the investigation unit on proceeds of crime. Promoted to Commander, he implemented the latter in 1997. He also developed a computerized system for managing investigations and restructured the Division du crime organisé as part of the investigating methods revision. He also took the lead in several major investigations that resulted in many arrests and the recovery of large sums of money and drugs.
As Commander and Inspector at the Bureau de la gestion opérationnelle, he coached newly appointed commanders during regular or important operations (missing persons, kidnappings, crime scene coverage, etc.). He also co-ordinated and advised command teams during festivals, the Carifête and various impromptu events. From 2002 to 2004, he successively acted as Chief inspector at the Division des services techniques, at the Direction des enquêtes and the Direction des opérations. Moreover, he collaborated in setting up the new structure that stems from optimizing the Neighbourhood Police. He managed current affairs for the Deputy director’s Office for operations including budget-related activities and co-ordinated the community’s five services. Mr. Delorme makes himself available and is open, but above all, he unites people and is a team player. A proven leader, he relies on the complementarity of everyone’s skills to ensure the success of a project. He has vision and is creative and continues optimizing the Neighbourhood Police with the creation of the Direction stratégique so that it evolves according to what benefits the needs of all citizens in collaboration with various city of Montreal respondents. Mr. Delorme is a member of the Association des directeurs de police du Québec, of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. The SPVM employs over 4,500 police officers and close to 1,500 civilian employees, of which 70% are men and 30% are women. Among the police officers, close to 280 people are from ethnic communities and some 210 are from a visible minority. The SPVM as a annual budget of around 5M$.