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Gary Beaulieu is a Deputy Chief
in the 900 member Niagara Regional Police Service, which is located in the
Regional Municipality of Niagara in the Province of Ontario, Canada. He has 30
years police experience and presently serves as Deputy Chief of Administrative
Support Division.
The Niagara Regional Police
Service is a municipal police agency, serving an urban and rural population of
420,000. The Niagara Region is located on the Niagara Peninsula and is composed
of six cities and other smaller towns. The region is surrounded by water on
three sides; the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara River that divides
Niagara from New York State in the United States of America.
Deputy Chief
Beaulieu was previously assigned to the Major Crime Unit in Headquarters,
Detective Support Division as a Detective Sergeant. He was also assigned as an
investigator with the Green Ribbon Task Force, which was formed to investigate
the murders and sexually motivated crimes of sexual sadist Paul Bernardo and his
accomplice spouse Karla Homolka from April 1992 to January 1996.
In 1997 he was assigned as
primary investigator in the successful Traditional Organized Crime
multi-jurisdictional homicide investigation into the gang-land executions of
reputed mobsters John Papalia and Carmen Barillaro.
Deputy Chief
Beaulieu has also served as Superintendent in Executive Services and Field
Services, and Divisional Commander in Detective Support Division, where he was
officer-in-charge of routine and multi-jurisdictional major case investigations.
He was also assigned duties as Divisional Commander in 3 District (formerly 33 Division)
Welland. Over the course of his police career he has also served in uniform
patrol, as a detective assigned to the criminal intelligence unit, general
assignments criminal investigation, and in the professional standards unit.
Deputy Chief
Beaulieu is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Rotman School of
Management, Police Leadership program, and a graduate of the 183rd Session of
the U. S. Department of Justice F. B. I. National Academy in Quantico Virginia
U. S. A. He has completed a Police Administration Certificate program at
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Deputy Chief
Beaulieu has presented the Bernardo case in the past, from his perspective as an
investigator assigned to the multi-jurisdictional and multi-agency task force.
The chronological summary and case overview will provide the audience with a
full understanding of the complexities and challenges in this case, which many
will recognize as being common to investigations of this form.
A government ordered judicial
review of the Bernardo investigation resulted in completion of the Report of Mr.
Justice Archie Campbell in June of 1996. The report of Mr. Justice Campbell and
his recommendations have changed the course of Major Case investigation in the
Province of Ontario, Canada.
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