October 5, 2009

Pride is defined as, “a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.” There are very few people in our organization that are as proud of the policing profession as the 2008 winner of the Chief’s Employee of the Year Award.

Whether he was representing our Police Service at countless community events as the leader of our Colour Party, carrying out his day-to-day assignments in the Traffic Section, sitting on the numerous committees he volunteered for, or when he represented his members as the President of the North Bay Police Association from August 31, 2006 to September 1, 2008, Sergeant Coulas was and is the consummate police professional.

Margaret Wheatly once wrote, “In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles and positions.” Sergeant Coulas fully understands this concept and practices it on a daily basis.

Thanks to his strong leadership, honesty, integrity, common sense approach, big picture thinking, problem solving abilities and the respectful manner with which he represented our members as Association President the relationships between the Association, the Police Services Board and our Command staff have never been stronger.