REST IN PEACE CANADIAN HERO

Mark Gallagher was one hell of a swell guy, a Canadian Hero, and died doing what he loved the best, and that was helping others.
Supt. Doug Coates is on the left and Sgt, Mark Gallagher is on the right in the photo.
REST WELL BROTHERS, we have your watch.

Widow of RCMP officer killed in Haiti says he was 'kindness personified'
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IN MEMORY OF MARK


By The Canadian Press

NORTHAMPTON, N.B. - The New Brunswick widow of an RCMP officer killed in Haiti says her husband loved the work he was doing and was known for his unending kindness.


Lisa Gallagher says her husband, Sgt. Mark Gallagher, loved helping people and that ultimately led him to Haiti.


The mother of two adult children read a statement Friday to reporters in the couple's home in Northampton.


With her son and daughter at her side, Lisa Gallagher described her husband as "kindness personified."


She thanked people for their support in the days leading up to the news Thursday night that his body had been found in the rubble of his apartment complex in Port-au-Prince.


His son, Shane Gallagher, said he would always be proud of how caring the 50-year-old officer was.

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Nova Scotia RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher was found dead by fellow RCMP colleagues in the rubble of his residence in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. “This is devastating news for Mark’s family and for all of us,” said a visibly upset RCMP Commissioner William J.S. Elliott at RCMP headquarters in Ottawa Thursday evening. “My profound sympathies go out to Mark’s wife Lisa and their children, Shane and Heather.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper also issued a statement Thursday evening with his condolences to the Gallagher family. “The discovery of Sgt. Gallagher confirms our worst fears that he was trapped in the rubble of his collapsed residence in Port-au-Prince.” “Laureen and I extend our deepest sympathies to Mark’s wife Lisa and their two children Shane and Heather,” Harper said. “We continue to pray that searchers will find RCMP Supt. Doug Coates alive.” Elliott said the RCMP is also holding out hope that Coates will be found. He is believed to be buried in the United Nations headquarters. Canadian Forces and the UN are working closely on the search for Coates. “(He) is believed to have been in the UN headquarters building when it collapsed,” Elliott said. “We were very much encouraged by the fact that someone else was recovered earlier today who was relatively unscathed and we hold out hope that we will get good news about Doug.” The commissioner said he spoke with the Coates family and the RCMP is providing them support. “They are obviously very concerned about Doug and they are certainly upset about the news about Mark,” he said. ““Doug has lots of friends and certainly they’re getting lots of support.” Gallagher joined the RCMP in 1984.. He spent eight years in New Brunswick in a variety of policing roles including general policing and community policing/victim services. He was promoted to Corporal in 2004 while serving in Jacquet River, N.B. In 2007, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant as the Media Relations Officer for the province of N.S. Last July, he was deployed to Haiti on a nine-month United Nations Peacekeeping mission. This was his first United Nations mission. In 2002, Gallagher was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal and earned the Police Exemplary Service Medal.

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Supt. Doug Coates, acting commissioner of the United Nations's stabilization mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, was reported missing along with Sgt. Mark Gallagher from Halifax.


Coates may have been inside the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince when the building crumbled due to the massive quake.


The RCMP has a team of 82 officers from across Canada stationed in Haiti. "They were doing a lot of mentoring, training and working with Haitian police because a lot of them are just out of school," said Lee Woodyear, a spokesman with the UN's peacekeeping department, said Wednesday. "They had done a lot of work taking on the different gangs that were wreaking some havoc."


Elliott said Thursday the other Canadian officers who worked in Port-au-Prince are safe and have been taken to the logistics base at the airport. The police officers in remote regions continue to do their work as usual.


Three more RCMP officers have been deployed to Haiti to assess the situation and provide support to the police officers.


The RCMP is in contact with the families of all police officers deployed to Haiti on a regular basis.