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Constable Dennis Modest Nicklos Shwaykowski

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 25308
Age: 31
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Birth: Dauphin, Manitoba
Enlistment: December 3, 1966
Death: April 6, 1977 Red Deer, Alberta
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Cst. Shwaykowski was the first police officer ever to die in the line of duty in the City of Red Deer. He was killed after being thrown from a moving vehicle while trying to apprehend an armed man. Cst. Shwaykowski was married to Linda and they had 3 children. He is buried in Birchwood Cemetery at Swan River, Manitoba.

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Page 152 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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