Carson Hunt

Dr. Carson Caleb Hunt (b. 10 February 1960 in Sandspit, Haida Gwaii) is a Haida-Canadian police officer and former psychiatrist, who has served since 22 March 2015 as Sheriff of the British Columbia Sheriff Service (BCSS), the provincial police of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

His alma mater is Haida Gwaii University, where he achieved his Master's Degree majoring in criminology in 1984, as well as the University of British Columbia where he completed his PhD on criminology in 1987. From 1988 to 1994, Dr. Hunt served as a psychiatrist attached to the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie near the frontlines of the 1988–96 Quebec War, where he sustained several bullet and shrapnel wounds in April 1994, from which he recovered the following August. After leaving the Gendarmerie in December 1994 as a ranking colonel, Dr. Hunt joined the BCSS, quickly moving up the ranks due to his education and extensive military (including wartime) experience.

The previous Sheriff of British Columbia, Andrew Williams, was set to retire in early 2015, and recommended Dr. Hunt as his successor, by which time Dr. Hunt had been serving as Williams' undersheriff (the second-highest rank in the BCSS) since mid-2013. Upon Sheriff Williams' retirement on 21 March 2015, Dr. Hunt accepted the recommendation, becoming the new Sheriff of British Columbia the following day.