Former Toronto Blue Jay Dalton Pompey now a Hamilton Police officer

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Mississauga’s Dalton Pompey turned the sixth Ontario-born participant to go well with up for the Toronto Blue Jays when he made his main league debut in September 2014.

The centre-fielder and pinch runner would seem in 64 video games for the Jays over 4 seasons, together with nabbing 4 stolen bases within the 2015 playoffs. Pompey later signed offers with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels however by no means performed one other main league sport after leaving Toronto.

He earned an estimated US$1.6 million (about$2.1 million) over his profession.

Pompey introduced his retirement from baseball in 2022, at age 30, after enjoying one season with the Guelph Royals of the Intercounty Baseball League. Regardless of provides to proceed to play baseball abroad, Pompey stayed near house and has now begun a second profession working as a Hamilton Police officer.

In a 2022 interview with the St. Catharines Normal, Pompey hinted on the job flip, stating he was eyeing a brand new position in emergency companies as he wound down his profession in Guelph.

Information of Pompey’s new job first surfaced on social media following a tweet from Hamilton Police saying a uniform change that permits officers to put on ball caps moderately than conventional police hats. Eagle-eyed viewers, together with baseball journalist Neil Srivastava, shortly noticed Pompey within the photographs.

In accordance with the Metropolis of Hamilton web site, the Hamilton Police Service is on the hunt for brand new recruits. The recruitment web page notes that 1st Class Constables earn between $91,909 and $100,183 yearly.

Pompey will not be the primary former athlete to maneuver into policing. Maybe most famously, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has been sworn in as a reserve officer in each Miami Seaside and Doral, Fla., and as a sheriff’s deputy in Jonesboro, Ga., the place the 7’1″ O’Neal holds the county document of Tallest Sheriff’s Deputy.