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