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The Corrections Exemplary Service Medal was established on June 11, 1984, to recognize employees of the Canadian correctional service. Exemplary Service is characterized by good conduct, industry and efficiency.
Eligible employees must have been working on or after the date of creation of the Medal, and must have completed a minimum of twenty years of full-time paid service, not necessarily continuous, with one or more correctional services in Canada. Their service must include ten years as a peace officer in an institution, parole office or probation office. 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.
An Advisory Committee consisting of the head of the correctional service in Canada, and the head of the correctional service of each province, the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, advises the Governor General concerning the award of the Medal. Awards committees consist of members appointed by the head of the correctional service of the jurisdiction (federal, provincial or territorial) for which that committee was established. A chairperson of an awards committee of the jurisdiction in which the person is serving submits nominations, together with a recommendation in respect of the nominee, to the Chancellery, the branch of the Office of the Governor General responsible for the administration of honours.
The Chancellery then submits these nominations to the Governor General for approval. The Medal or a bar is then sent to the chairperson of the appropriate awards committee for formal presentation to the recipient.
The Corrections Exemplary Service Medal consists of a circular medal with a stylized maple leaf bearing a crossed key and torch, circumscribed with the words "Exemplary Service-Services distinguës" on the obverse, and the Royal Cipher on the reverse. The Medal is suspended by a ribbon of five equal stripes, two gold, three green.
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 correctional services in Canada, after the twenty-year period in respect of which he or she was awarded the Medal.
The Corrections Exemplary Service Medal is part of the Canadian Honours System established in 1967.
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