Constable Bryan Marchuk joined the Carlyle Detachment two months ago in his first posting with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Having finished training at Depot in Regina four months ago and for the first two months as an active member he was in Ottawa working as added security on Parliament Hill before arriving in Carlyle.
Marchuk joined the RCMP after training as a Control Systems Engineer.
“I was a Control Systems Engineer in training and there wasn’t enough variety in the work for me and I wasn’t directly helping people,” he explained. “I wanted a career where I could make a bit of a difference.”
Despite training being, “the toughest six months of [his] life,” Marchuk has found his calling and only four months after training can say, “I love it. It’s great. It’s the best job I’ve ever had. Every day is different, there’s no routine. I wake up and I have no idea how my day is going to pan out.”
Although Carlyle has been a bit of a culture shock, having gone from places like Vancouver and Kelowna, he has been looking for ways to become involved in the community.
“To go from a population of 80,000 to 1,400, is a little bit of an adjustment,” Marchuk said smiling. “I’m trying to get involved though. I’ve joined jujitsu at the gym which is letting me meet other people aside from other members, but basically I’m just waiting for hockey season and to play.”
