Black Belt Speaker Goes International…

My career as a performance expert and motivational speaker has now taken me to the international realm. (Note the Canandian and British Columbia flags in the background.)

Just got back from Vancouver, British Columbia where I was the guest speaker for the Delta Police Department Constabulary Formal mess.

This is a formal dinner based on military tradition, where the members, properly attired in their finest dress uniforms, poke fun at each other while honoring their past members.

Infractions of not having the proper patches or pins on the uniform met with a fine from the President of the Mess Committee, usually in the form of buying a drink for someone else. According to one member, this year’s event was quite tame. Last year, one member asked permission to leave the table to go to the restroom (after indulging in several cocktails). The officer was permitted to go after singing “O Canada” while doing pushups.

This entertaining event had its serious moments too as we toasted the Queen and also fallen officers from the Department.

Instead of a canned speech encouraging the officers to be accountable, seek more training, and be polite to the public, I presented a list of ways “guaranteed to sabotage a perfectly good law enforcement career,” including suggestions to criticize the Chief as often as possible, get drunk at the awards ceremony - and then drive yourself home, and demand sexual favors from people in your custody (a tactic which did cost an Oklahoma sheriff his job).

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