Trainer Bios
Robbie Robertson
Trainer
Robert Robertson is an experienced security professional, responsible for all training in the Southern Interior regional office of Commissionaires BC. Robert has trained hundreds of students since beginning security training instruction in 2003 and then moving into that role exclusively. The courses he teaches in Basic Standards Training have a 98% success rate with a high level of employment success with Commissionaires and other security firm employees upon completion of the course.
Robert brings with him a high level of security expertise and knowledge gained from his distinguished thirty-year service in the RCMP. In the later part of his career there, Robert was a commander in charge of 55 personnel responsible for key intelligence investigations, and was a member of a joint operational force with local police and city officials in London, Ontario. In his years with the RCMP, his skills as a leader and instructor developed from his management of various units and personnel, both uniformed and civilian. In the early years of his career, Robert was assigned to VIP protection services and provided site and personal protection to royals and heads of states, such as Queen Elizabeth II, Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Ronald Regan.
Robert combines his talents as an instructor with his passions and hobbies. Robert was a boating safety instructor from 2002 to 2005, as part of the Power Squadron program, and he coaches youth basketball and youth hockey teams in his community.