Peter Lambrinakos

Peter Lambrinakos Order of Merit of the Police Forces is a Canadians police officer and corporate security executive, currently serving as the first Chief of police#Canada of the Via Rail Police Service and additionally as Via Rail Canada’s Chief of Corporate security since March 2015. He has held various senior positions leading the Organized crime, Major Case Squad, Financial crime| and Criminal intelligence units with the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal.
Lambrinakos was born in Montreal, Quebec to Greeks. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a Major in Economics from McGill University.
Lambrinakos created VIA Rail’s Corporate Security Strategy to protect VIA Rail’s passengers, employees and infrastructure. 
=== Creation of the VIA Rail Police ===
Lambrinakos also formed the Via Rail Police Service, Canada’s first passenger Railroad police dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of inter-city rail in Canada. 
Lambrinakos began his policing career in 1989 with the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal moving up the ranks to head teams dedicated to the fight against child sexual exploitation for commercial purposes, leading child kidnapping investigations, and overseeing investigations involving violent street gangs.
=== Creation of the Montreal Police Metro Unit ===
In 2007, Lambrinakos became the first Chief of the Montreal Police Metro Unit and played a key role in the creation of this new transit police unit responsible for the public safety in the Montreal Metro (subway), Canada's second busiest rapid transit system and List of North American rapid transit systems by ridership fourth busiest rapid transit system.
=== Capture of Luka Magnotta ===
In 2012, Lambrinakos became Chief of the Major and Economic Crimes Division in charge of the Homicide, Cold case, Sexual assault, Commercial sexual exploitation of children, Robbery, Arson and Fraud units. This included leading the Crisis negotiation and Hostage Rescue and Barricaded Persons Structure. During this time, Lambrinakos was the commanding officer regarding the investigation of the murder of Jun Lin, a Chinese international student murdered by Luka Rocco Magnotta. Magnotta fled from Montreal to Paris after posting a video recording of the murder online and mailing the body parts to schools and Canadians federal Conservative Party of Canada and Liberal Party of Canada. On May 31, 2012, Interpol issued a Interpol notice at the request of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal Homicide unit to locate and provisionally arrest him pending extradition. This set off an international manhunt by law enforcement authorities in Canada, the United States, France, Germany and other countries. Magnotta was arrested at an Internet café in Berlin while reading news about himself. As a matter of "national interest", a sensitive military mission was ordered by the Minister of National Defence (Canada) following the request by Lambrinakos to assist Service de police de la Ville de Montréal in repatriating Magnotta back to Canada. A team of homicide Detective transported Magnotta back on a Royal Canadian Air Force Airbus CC-150 Polaris jet aircraft. This investigation was chosen as Canadian Newsmaker of the Year by The Canadian Press in 2012. In December 2019, Netflix released a Television documentary|documentary series based on these events called Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer: Hunting an Internet Killer.
Lambrinakos is presently a Director on the Board of Directors for Operation Lifesaver Canada.
Lambrinakos was also a police consultant to the Canadian drama film Boost (film) that was released in 2017. The film was nominated for five Canadian Screen Award at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards and eight Prix Iris at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.
In 2015, Lambrinakos was invested as a Member of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces (MOM) by the Governor General of Canada.
Ribbon 	Description 	Notes
Order of Merit of the Police Forces	- Member: January 8, 2015	
Police Exemplary Service Medal 	- Medal: August 28, 2014
- 1st Bar: August 28, 2019	
Category:Canadian police officers
Category:Corporate executives 
Category:People from Montreal