came in to talk to me. Can you tell him that the advice he gave me changed
my life and helped me become who I am today. I never got a chance to thank
him, so if it’s not too much to ask just let him know for me.

What had Superintendent Gorman said to Steve? He doesn’t
remember. “I'd love to tell you, but I can’t.” He has given a lot of advice
to a lot of young people since he became a sheriff in 1981. He knew Steve
best from the baseball teams he coached. Gorman once took a group of
at-risk kids to the remand centre at Esquimalt just to let them see how a
nineteenth-century military prison looks. “Other officers,’ he points out,
“have done similar types of things.

“This message brought tears to my eyes and all at once it became so
absolutely clear to me. I printed that e-mail and later that evening shared it
with my wife, in part to explain the éwhy’ of what I do?”

And what is that?

“My work makes a difference.”

That phrase of his echoes in the work done by a colleague, Superin-
tendent Jackie Ross, who has felt part of the revitalized district and provin-
cial teams in the Courts Service and become involved in operations “where
I could make a difference.”

The Courts Academy makes a difference in the quality of those
who graduate from the program, become deputy sheriffs and rise to be
thoughtful, caring sheriffs like Shayne Gorman and Jackie Ross.

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