Lethbridge welcomes new Police Commission Chair

Jeannette Rocher
January 29, 2021
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The Lethbridge Police Commission voted in their new Chair on Wednesday night. Rob VanSpronsen had been filling as the acting chair since Simon Griffiths announced his resignation on December 22.

VanSpronsen has sat on the police commission for the past five years, and has been the vice chair for the past year. He will hold the position for the next year.

Every January the police commission votes for their chair, vice chair and new members.

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends.