Former Goalie Loving Life Of A Cop

The Toronto Sun has a good though short piece on Paul Harrison, a goalie who played in 109 NHL games in the late 1970s/early 1980s, most notably with Toronto and Minnesota. For the past 25 years he's been working in Ontario as a police officer. For the past 12 years he's been a very effective administering the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.

"At today's OPP awards ceremony, Harrison is being singled out for helping to bring the DARE program into the classrooms of 110 schools across Northeastern Ontario. He also helped train and recruit more than 50 police officers as instructors.

"We started out humbly, but have grown quite extensively," Harrison said of the program. "It works because of the officers who teach it."

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