Police officers focus on peace role

Waterloo, Ont.

Can you be a Mennonite and a police officer? The eight police officers who met at Conrad Grebel University College on November 29 answered that question with a resounding "yes!"

In fact, these officers, all of whom attend Mennonite or Brethren in Christ churches, see their primary task as peacemaking. The six men and two women talked about their vocation and faith at a Christian Officers' Peace Seminar, hosted by Mennonite Central Committee Ontario and the Peace and Conflict Studies program at Grebel.

The "fishbowl" format had eight officers sit in a circle to discuss the issues, while 12 persons sat in an outer circle to listen in.

Five …