Meet Shawna Grimes, Edmonton’s First Female Head Of Homicide

 

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Grow­ing up in St. Albert in the 1980s, Shaw­na Grimes found in­spir­a­tion in Cag­ney and Lacey, a ground­break­ing tele­vision ser­ies about two fe­male de­tec­tives in New York City.

When she told her par­ents she want­ed to be­come a po­lice of­fi­cer, just like her TV idols, they weren’t keen. They wor­ried about the dan­gers and trauma their eld­est daugh­ter might face.

So she took off to Pak­istan after high school, liv­ing with fam­ily friends while pro­cess­ing vi­sas at the Canadian Embassy. – READ MORE

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