Amir Qaiser, a second-year Police Foundations student at the Humber Lakeshore campus, wants to make a difference in the community.
Qaiser used to volunteer with the Toronto Police Rovers, a volunteer group with Humber College Scouts Canada and Toronto Police. He is now training to be an auxiliary officer for the Toronto Police Service.
He used to work at Bath and Body Works and now works as a residential worker at a youth open custody and detention facility.
“I wanted to get a job where every day was different and where there would be conflict or something that I could solve and just something where I could interact with a lot of people and make a difference in their life,” Qaiser said.
“There is a youth that I’ve been working with for a couple of months. I got him to open up and after some events where he got mad, I thought we were banging heads,” he said.
“He actually told me the next day, ‘Amir, you inspired me. I’m going to do better at controlling myself,’ and he was telling me about the two schools he wanted to go to, and how he’s thinking about becoming an electrician and stuff,” Qaiser said.
“He’s committed crime. He comes from crime, right? I think me being the reason that he said that he wants to do better makes me so happy every time,” he said.
