Pistol Packin’ Victoria Police
Stiff Competition

Prove

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By

R. G. THORSEN
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HE “Big Four’ pistol-shooting
Ai team of the Victoria (B.C.) City

Police Department has not only
amassed an impressive record over the
years for their shooting ability but are
the mainspring in the program to
make policemen of this city better
shots.

The pistol-packin’ experts of the
citys boys in blue are headed by
Detective-Inspector Charles Webb,
head of the plainclothes section of the
force.

Charlie’s the big champ of the
quartette, his latest achievements with
the hand gun being to capture the
British Columbia open championship
in 1951 and the Vancouver Island
closed championships in 1953.

Other team members are Detective
Alex Briggs, Sgt. Jack Mason and
Constable Nap Bouchard. While not
as sharp in holding the target as the

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This foursome of the Victoria City Police Force is pictured with “just some’’ of the many

handsome awards they have won over the years for their pistol-shooting ability in Pacific

Northwest tournament competitions. On the left is Detective-Inspector Charles Webb, the

real ‘hot shot’ of the group. Others from the left are Const. Nap Bouchard, Sgt. Jack Mason
and Detective Alex Briggs.

inspector, they are none-the-less in
the “good” bracket in pistol shooting.

The writer would hate to be the
fleeing crook any one of them had
occasion to line their sights on.

But another main function of these
same gents, in addition to regular
police work, is to pass on their
knowledge in the handling and shoot-
ing of firearms to all other members
of the force.

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In Victoria it isn’t often policemen
have to resort to the use of firearms,
but it is the wish of Chief of Police
John Blackstock and Deputy Chief
Harry Mercer that each be brought
up to a standard where they can hold
their own should an emergency arise.

The quartette put the members of
the force through the mill two nights
a week for two months every winter.

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