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Michael Dunnill

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Rev. Michael Dunnill is an Anglican priest serving as honorary assistant in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Thunder Bay, Ont. He has been chaplain to the Thunder Bay Police since 1988, as well as to the Thunder Bay Police Association. He is a recipient of the John A. Price Excellence in Chaplaincy Award and a founding member of the Canadian Police Chaplains Association.

Ministry to God’s battered and beaten

The police chaplain’s role has changed dramatically in the past two decades. Police chaplaincy used to be a ceremonial function until the 1980s, with the chaplain called upon to dedicate the occasional police building or to say blessings at police-related functions.

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