To serve and protect

It was the middle of the night and Constable Beaudoin had just arrived on the scene in NDG, where a taxi driver had just been stabbed in the clavicle and arm by a female robber. The victim also had a perforated lung. The 48-year-old father was lying on the sidewalk and had already lost about four litres of blood. The man repeatedly told Beaudoin that he was dying, but the constable told him his last hour had not arrived.

She decided to stop the bleeding by placing her hands directly on the severed artery. Beaudoin continued talking to the cabbie to keep him conscious. She didn't remove her hands, even as the wounded man was placed into an ambulance and rushed to hospital. The constable remained at the taxi driver’s side well into the early morning.

Constable Beaudoin showed exceptional poise and leadership as she dealt with a very dramatic situation, and successfully saved a man from certain death.

For her courage, quick reflexes and tremendous poise, and for having been a guardian angel, who allowed a family man to safely return home to his loved ones, and because she is a true hero in the shadows, Constable Annie-Claude Beaudoin of Montreal Police Service Station 11 was presented a 2009 Quebec Police Award.