Albert Lisacek

Albert Lisacek (13 July 1933 – 20 November 2012), also known as "Kojak", was a Sûreté du Québec detective sergeant involved in a number of high-profile cases. He was considered by some to be Canada's toughest cop.

French criminal Jacques Mesrine planned to ambush Lisacek at a restaurant where the policeman frequently ate but Lisacek changed his routine.

He was present at the 1975 raid where Richard Blass was gunned down by police. After a string of killings, Blass was located in a chalet in Val-David, in a region called Laurentides, north of Montreal. Lisacek reportedly allowed Blass time to put his pants on. When Blass exited the bedroom, police opened fire; the official explanation was that Blass had been armed, but in 2010, Lisacek told a journalist that Blass had only been 'wielding' a sock. Following this incident, Lisacek was assigned to a desk job. He left the force in 1981.

A character based on Lisacek appeared in the 2006 television miniseries about events from the October Crisis, October, 1970 .

Lisacek married his first wife Claudia in 1962; she died in 1999. He later married Jacqueline Richer.

He died in Montreal from cancer at the age of 79.

Lisacek claimed "I was good at getting rid of the bad people".