By Christopher Foulds - Kamloops This Week Published: January 31, 2013 10:00 AM

The press release left the Kamloops RCMP detachment at 9:59 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, and landed in the email inboxes of Kamloops media outlets seconds later.  "My Blackberry, iPhone and phone have been going absolutely crazy ever since," said Kamloops RCMP Supt. Yves Lacasse, whose dramatic and surprising career shift was documented in that press release. Lacasse will don the RCMP uniform for the final time on Feb.21 as he retires after 27 years with the national police force, the last eight in Kamloops. Four days later, on Feb. 25, Lacasse will begin his new career as manager of external affairs for KGHM International, the company planning to build the Ajax copper and gold mine immediately south of Aberdeen. (more)