'My parents initially didn't support the idea of their youngest daughter running off to join the army,' says Elise Claridge, now a Barrie police constable What started off as an “impulsive decision” by a rash teenager ultimately turned into a 14-year career that taught Elise Claridge more about herself than she could ever have imagined. Claridge, now a five-year uniformed front-line officer with the Barrie Police Service, was only 17 when she made the decision to join the Canadian Armed Forces. She says a recruiter showed up at her Richmond Hill high school and she simply thought it was a...