Woodstock's Police Chief Rod Freeman was selected to receive the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. The award was given Wednesday morning at the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Quarterly Zone meeting. "I'm very, very proud and very humbled in receiving this award because it does come from my peers. It comes from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and my peers in the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, so it means a great deal to me that they would think highly enough of me and my career to award me with this Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal," said Freeman. He has been in the Chief position for 20-years and is the longest serving active Chief in the province. "I've been very blessed. During the last 35-years I've been able to serve a number of different communities at a number of different rank levels. In addition to that, I've been able to contribute in a variety of ways off-duty through my participation in different boards: Mothers Against Drunk Diving, here locally with the Safe Communities Woodstock project, supporting DASO in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes," said Freeman. Freeman was happy to receive the award in the presence of his wife and two sons. "When I'm off doing other things, whether it be formally in my role as Chief of Police or whether it be informally as a volunteer or a participant on one of these boards off-duty in the evenings, it's time that I'm spending away from them. So, they're also contributing to this," said Freeman. This isn't the first time that Freeman was recognized by the Queen. He said back in 2002 at a Golden Jubilee presentation in Toronto he got to salute her. Just another reason Freeman said this medal is meaningful to him.
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