Elementary school students in Bulyea took in a powerful presentation Wednesday regarding bullying and cyber-bullying.

Retired Saskatoon Police Force Detective Brian Trainor has traveled from coast to coast spreading the word about the sometimes tragic effects of harassment.

He specifies that his police work dealt with bullying on almost every call.

"Most of the calls that the police are called to deal with some form of a power abuse or a power imbalance and that's the very definition of bullying. Getting into talking to kids about bullying and then extending into cyber-bullying is just kind of a natural progression from my years of policing."

Without trying to be too blunt, especially for online targeting he says it starts with education at home and the raising of the children.

"The problem is the parents don't have any idea how to use these cell phones themselves so how do you teach your children to use a cell phone or a device wisely, smartly, safely when you don't know how to do it yourself."

Times have changed immensely for Trainor, he began his protective services career in Saskatoon in 1979 but upon retiring he still wanted to help which essentially led to his career now. 

He does still know the in's and out's and will straight up tell you the largest myth about online crime is that you are anonymous.

"I can say whatever I want because nobody knows who is typing this," he mocked. "Well that's a bunch of garbage, all it takes is the police to take a search warrant to the internet service provider, maybe Sasktel and say who owns this phone or who owns this computer? Sasktel knows this information, they own the network, they keep the information for a short period of time in case the police do come knocking."

Trainor's thought is that people simply don't know each other anymore and that is the effect of society.

"We need need to forget the word sympathy, or sympathize and change it for the word empathy. You empathize, that means you feel someone's pain, you step in their shoes and you make a difference, you make change, we need to learn to be empathetic people, not sympathetic people."

You can hear much more from Trainor below in his interview with Bolt FM's Sarah Miller.

You can also learn more about him at his website.