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Catherine Campbell, slain N.S. police officer, remembered at Atlantic Police Academy

Staff at the Atlantic Police Academy on P.E.I. were shocked this week to hear about the death of a Nova Scotia woman who was a cadet at the school just a few years ago.

Slain police officer 'good student, well-liked' as cadet

Catherine Campbell, a Nova Scotia constable who attended the Atlantic Police Academy on P.E.I., was found dead Wednesday. (Submitted by Halifax Regional Police)

Staff at the Atlantic Police Academy on P.E.I. were shocked this week to hear about the death of a Nova Scotia woman who was a cadet at the school just a few years ago.

Catherine Campbell was an older student, says Eric Fiander, deputy director of the Atlantic Police Academy, who got along well with her classmates. (Atlantic Police Academy)

Catherine Campbell, a Truro police constable, was found dead in Halifax Wednesday. A second-degree murder charge has been laid against 27-year-old Christopher Calvin Garnier.

Eric Fiander, deputy director of the Atlantic Police Academy, told CBC News Campbell was in the class of 2009.

I heard that they found her body about three in the morning, and I really didn't get back to sleep.- Eric Fiander

Campbell was 30 when she joined the academy, about five years older than most of the cadets, but got along well, he said.

"She was a very good student, well-liked," Fiander said.

"I heard that they found her body about three in the morning, and I really didn't get back to sleep."

Campbell will be honoured at the school's annual graduation dinner in September.