Roll of Honor
Vincent Norman Timms
Incident
Prior to joining the Force, S/Cst. Timms was an Intelligence Specialist with the Canadian Armed Forces. Due to his extensive military training in intelligence and espionage, he was a natural for surveillance duty with Special O and was posted to NCIB Edmonton. S/Cst. Timms had a sincere desire to learn and had a keen sense of observation which was very helpful for his position as an aerial observer. S/Cst. Timms developed and adapted an internal communications system for the section aircraft in order to enhance ground/air communications. This radio system that he developed was adapted by other police agencies. On the day of his death he was in a plane with limited visibility and heavy snow. The left wing of the plane struck a guy wire of a radio tower causing the plane to fall to the ground. S/Cst. Timms was married to Donna and they had 2 children: Kerry-Lynn and Ryan.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Special Constable Norman Timms served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Special Constable Norman Timms.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Special Constable Vincent Norman Timms is one of 260 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0.8% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ON, 236 of 334 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.7% of this state's fallen. That is 69.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0.8%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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