Twin RCMP officers leaving residents seeing double

Identical twins Ryan and Seth Landry say they both were inspired as young boys by a neighbour who demonstrated how to care for communities

Growing up in Morris, the brothers had a neighbour for a while who was in the RCMP. The Landry brothers say they grew up watching the officer leaving a positive impact on the community and were inspired to do the same.

"Seeing them drive around and make a big difference in the community was a big thing for us," Seth says.

"It was that positive impact he made on the community is what drove us both to (become officers)," Ryan says.

The twins say they were "best friends" growing up. As the men grew older, they began to think about their careers.

"We definitely would have a good time if we were able to work together in the same detachment." 

The brothers say they have twins in the family, so being a twin was never something unique to them, but found other people were often interested in what being a twin was like.

In 2008, Ryan decided to join the RCMP and more than a decade later, his younger brother (by three minutes) Seth joined him.

"Before Seth joined the RCMP I had been posted (where Seth lived) and maybe there were times where I had given people tickets and he noticed people would give him a glare as he was grocery shopping," Ryan says.

This year, Seth made the leap and joined the RCMP and just recently finished his training.

"For his graduation, I got to go and hand him his badge in the ceremony, so that was nice," Ryan says.

Constable Ryan Landry is posted in Morden and Constable Seth Landry is posted in the Russell/Roblin area.

"We had always thought it would be neat to do a shift together," Seth says. 

During a scheduled day off last week, Seth decided to take a shift with his brother. Driving down to Morden, Seth and Ryan spent the day in the area.

"We would like to eventually be able to work in the same detachment together," Seth says. "We definitely would have a good time if we were able to work together in the same detachment." 

Last week's shift proved just that.

"We did stop a few cars when we were working together and we would get one on each side of the vehicle on each window and people would do a double-take," Seth says.

While the RCMP has had instances of twins both being officers, Ryan and Seth's coworkers say that having identical twins wanting to work together is "kind of like history in the making."

The brothers hope that they will get the opportunity to work together again.