From Gas Masks to Cybercrime: A Career in Public Safety

Wired for Change · Mar 17, 2026 · 1h 11m

In this episode of Wired for Change, Amy Yee sits down with Kelly Bradshaw, a retired RCMP officer whose nearly three-decade career spans front-line policing, public-order deployments, UN peacekeeping missions, and investigations into financial and cybercrime.

Kelly reflects on what it takes to build and sustain a career in public safety — from responding alone to calls early in her career, to operating in high-pressure public-order environments, to leading Canadian police officers deployed to Mali with the United Nations.

Along the way, she shares leadership lessons from the field, insights…