Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: February 25, 1974
• Invested on: February 14, 1975

Constable Joseph Henri Germain Albert, M.B.
Sergeant Joseph Ferdinand François Marcel Mailloux, M.B.
Medal of Bravery

On October 5, 1972, Cst. Germain Albert and Sgt. Marcel Mailloux, members of the Harbour Police in Montreal, succeeded in bringing a would-be-suicide down from the 250-foot level of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge. Informed that the man was on a girder at the top of the bridge, Cst Albert came to the scene where he was joined by Sgt Mailloux. In order to take him by surprise, the two police officers climbed a bridge ladder leading to a point behind where the man was seated. In this precarious situation, they seized the man, forced him on his back and bound his legs and arms. The officers tried reasoning with him but he could not be persuaded to cooperate. In his distraught state he endangered all their lives but the police officers displaying coolness and courage, completed the rescue, bringing the victim down an aerial ladder which the fire service had brought to the scene.