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He’s been a mainstay with the North Bay Police Service for 3 and a half decades but not any more as on the weekend Staff Sergeant Mike Tarini officially retired.

He joined the service, then known as the police force, in 1981.

Tarini says he’s turned in his gun, badge and handcuffs, but the passion for policing remains.

He says he knows he made a difference in the community and his thoughts are always with those officers who didn’t make it to retirement.

Tarini says both Constable Len Slater and d/Cst. Fred Lefebvre were killed in the line of duty and that’s a somber moment he’d like to reflect on as he retires.

One of his big achievements was ensuring that Lefebvre’s name was added to the honour wall at the Ontario Police College and the Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial.

Lefebvre was killed in the line of duty in 1923.

Meantime, Tarini says two cases that standout for him that weren’t solved were the missing case of William Ostertag, who remains missing to this day and the Gaetano Parise murder investigation. Tarini was an investigating officer on that case.

Highlights include working at the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto and receiving several awards including a Police Exemplary Service Medal, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.