After a 34-year cross-Canada career, North District RCMP Chief Superintendent Rod Booth is retiring at the end of March.
Booth has been a member of the RCMP since 1981. For the first 22 years of his career, he served in British Columbia, Yukon and the Gulf Islands as a general duty officer, emergency response team member and major crime investigator.
In 2003 he transferred to Ottawa, was commissioned to the rank of Inspector and was appointed executive officer to the RCMP Commissioner.
Booth went on to serve three successive commissioners before he was seconded to the Prime Minister's Privy Council Office for two years where he focused on security preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
He has spent the last five years as the North District RCMP's Commander.
Last fall he received the Order of Merit medal from the Governor General David Johnston. The medal recognizes a career of exceptional service or distinctive merit by the men and women in policing service in Canada.
Booth has been married for 28 years and has two adult children.
After retiring, he will be heading back to school where he plans to finish the degree he started at McGill University before joining the RCMP.
The national search for his replacement is underway.
