Meritorious Service Medal

• Awarded on: November 15, 2001
• Invested on: September 27, 2002

Sergeant Robert Beniah Kennedy, M.S.M., Ottawa, Ont.
Meritorious Service Medal (civil division)

A pioneer in the research of foot morphology, RCMP Sgt. Robert Kennedy has acquired an international reputation as one of the world’s leading experts in this field. Since introducing his innovative method of identifying human foot imprints in 1990, he has provided crucial expert evidence in a number of criminal cases in Canada and abroad. As a result of Sgt. Kennedy’s expertise, his advice has been sought after by police agencies around the world and the RCMP has set the standards in the development of this unique identification process.