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The Police Exemplary Service Medal was created on August 12, 1983, to recognize police officers who have served in an exemplary manner, exhibiting good conduct, industry and efficiency. They must have completed twenty years of such service with one or more recognized Canadian police forces, including full-time police
cadet training, and have been a serving officer on August 1, 1980. Recognized police forces are those established in Canada by an Act of Parliament or an Act of a provincial legislature. Members of the RCMP or the Canadian Forces are ineligible; however, full-time service by former members of the RCMP or the Canadian Forces Military Police may qualify for the purpose of the award. Consideration is only given to periods of service for which no other long service, good conduct or efficiency decoration or medal has been awarded by the Crown. The Medal may be awarded posthumously.
The chief or director of the police force in which the nominee has served, or the chairperson of the authority in charge of the force, submits nominations to the Chancellery, the branch of the Office of the Governor General responsible for the administration of honours. The Chancellery then submits the recommendation to the Decorations Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police which, after due consideration, submits a list of eligible nominees to the Governor General. The Medal is formally presented on behalf of the Governor General by the person who nominated the police officer or former police officer.
The Medal consists of a circular medal, which features, on the obverse, a stylized maple leaf bearing the Scales of Justice, circumscribed with the words "Exemplary Service - Services distingués". On the reverse appears the Royal Cipher. The Medal is suspended by a ribbon of five equal stripes, two gold and three blue.
A bar, bearing a stylized maple leaf centred upon it, may be awarded to a recipient of the Medal in respect of each additional ten-year period of full-time service with one or more Canadian police forces, after the twenty-year period recognized by the Medal, if that service is of such good standard as to warrant it.
The Police Exemplary Service Medal is part of the Canadian Honours System established in 1967.
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