September 1989

vol 2/#1

JIBC

transferred to
Ministry of
Advanced
Education
and Job Training
by Larry Goble, Principal

PTEC driver training vehicles at the new Boundary Bay site.

PTEC now 'officially' open
On September 21, Pacific Traffic
Education Centre (PTEC) held its
official opening and open house at
the Boundary Bay site. Over 150
people attended, including representatives of the federal, provincial and civic governments, law
enforcement and traffic safety
agencies, the trucking industry
and the media.
Following welcoming statements by representatives of the
federal and provincial governments, the Justice Institute, and
ICBC, PI'EC program director Al
Lund provided a commentary as
the audience viewed a series of

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demonstrations on the tracks.
Police Academy instructor Warne
Lynd and Bert Vermeer of the
Delta police department gave a
police driving demonstration involving a simulated pursuit
(Warne was the "bad guy"). Kelly
Murphy of Emergency Health Services Academy organized an ambulance driving demonstration,
and ICBC coordinated a commercial truck braking/skid demonstration using PTEC skid pads to
create a slippery surface. (The
PTEC skid pads use a new type of
sealing coat and are the first of
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With the transfer ofresponsibility
for the Justice Institute to the
Ministry of Advanced Education
and Job Training on September
25, the Institute returns to the
Ministry that provided its core
funding from the inception of the
Justice Institute until 1984.
The Justice Institute of British
Columbia was created by Order in
Council in the spring of 1978 as a
post-secondary educational institution. It joined a network of
21 colleges and institutes in BC
and was given a specific mandate
to provide training and educational programs in the areas of justice
and public safety. Through its
principal, bursar and board, the
Institute reported to the Ministry
of Education and was subject to
the terms and conditions of the
College and Institute Act.
In the 1983/84 restraint era,
the Ministry of Education was
called on by Cabinet to reduce its
overall budget. One way to do
this was to cut all core funding to
the Justice Institute. The Ministry of Attorney General, however,
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fought to maintain the Institute
and was able to gain support
from Cabinet and Treasury Board
to continue the JI as a post secondary educational institute under
the College and Institute Act.
Core funding for the Institute continued to come through the Ministry of Attorney General from that
time until March 1988 when the
Attorney General's Ministry was
split and a new Ministry of Solicitor General was formed. With
this change, the Justice Institute
was moved to the new Ministry.
At a recent BC government
Cabinet meeting, it was decided
that the time had come again to
re-evaluate what ministry the
Justi~e Institute, as a post-secondary educational and training institute, should report to and
receive core funding from for its
administrative, buildings and
grounds, and educational support
services. Cabinet decided that, to
make things rational and take
away the confusion that arises
when people hear that the JI is a
post-secondary educational institute, they would simply move
the JI back to Education (its
original parent body, which is
now the Ministry of Advanced
Education and Job Training AE&JT). The Order in Council
was passed by Cabinet and
the transfer took place on September 25.
The move to the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training will not create any major
changes for staff:
• Our 1989/90 budget for Finance
and Administration and Educational Services will be turned over,
as is, from the Ministry of Solicitor
General to the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training. The 1990/91 budget, which
has already been submitted to the
Ministry of Solicitor General, will
also be transferred to the new ministry for negotiations for next
year's budget allocation. At this
point I do not anticipate any changes in those two budgets.
• Planning and support for the new
JI facility will now be with our

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Board through to the Ministry of
AE&JT.
• The move to AE&JT does not involve any changes with our major
client groups and the specific
academy contracts for programs
and services.
• We will now be more formally a
part of the network of universities,
colleges and institutes in BC. I
anticipate there may be many opportunities for us within the system to apply for special project
funds for new programs that have
not been available to us in the past.
• The Policy Advisory Group, made
up of assistant deputy ministers
representing our major client
groups, will continue, with the addition of a representative from the
Ministry of 'AE&JT... _.. · ·
Let me conclude by saying that
this move back into the Ministry
of Advanced Education and Job

Training has all the earmarks of
being a win-win situation, since:
• the Ministry of AE&JT has expressed strong interest in bringing
the n back into the colleges and
institutes network;
• the Ministry of Solicitor General is
supporting the move; and
• all of our major client ministries
and branches also support the ·
move.
Personally, I see this is a real
opportunity to move the Justice
Institute forward by strengthening our financial base and removing some of the confusion people
have as to who we are and what
we do. This transfer, along with
our new strategic plan and
facility plan, can assist us all in
preparing for an expanding role
for the Justice Institute in justice
and public safety education and
training in the nineties. 0

Media centre completes
Lakeside video project
The Media Centre completed
filming the Lakeside Video
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Project on September 15 aft;er almost four months of work.
Lakeside Correctional Centre is
the only secure correctional
centre for women in British
Columbia, but when the Burnaby
Correctional Centre for Women is
completed in November 1990,
Lakeside will be demolished.
The video was created as a historical perspective of Lakeside from
its beginning to the present. The

Justice Institute-produced film

.)Vill serve to preserve the existence of Lakeside after its destruction.
Eleanor Stock, a correctional officer at Lakeside, is the creator
and director of the production;
Debby Hawboldt of Corrections
Academy is the liaison between
the JI and Lakeside. After editing, the video Lakeside Correctional Centre for Women will be
available through the Justice Institute. 0

Police Academy uses FBI instructors
The Police Academy will use more
FBI instructors in the coming
months. In October, the Academy's Hostage/Barricaded Person
Commanders Program will feature special agent Ben Tisa of the
San Francisco FBI office as the
head instructor. Special agent
Tisa was the lead investigator in
the Patty Hearst investigation,

and instructs the FBI's widely
regarded SWAT program.
In November, supervisory special agent James Horn of the FBI
Training Academy in Quantico,
Virginia, will be the featured
speaker at a Police Academy-sponsored conference on critical incident stress (see separate story on
page 5). 0

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PTEC ... contiriued from page 1

Clockwise frt;1m top /eh: guests at the official opening of PTEC's
Boundary Bay site; a simulated police pursuit; Chief Constable
R. Stewart, Chairman of the JI Board,addresses the gathering;
and a commercial truck demonstration using PTEC skid pads.

their type in Canada.) Dr. Stan
Wilbee, MP for Delta who represented the federal government at
the opening, took over the
driver's seat for one of the ambulance runs and did a professional job of driving.
Media representatives took
ridealongs through the circuits in
police cars and ambulances. Displays included commercial

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trucks, firefighting apparatus,
ambulances, and RCMP freeway
patrol mustangs.
In conjunction with other agencies, PTEC will play a key role in
applied research related to driving, accident investigation and
traffic safety. For example,
UBC's accident research team
will test vehicles and drivers on
the site to assist with accident re-

search, the University Hospital's
Alzheimer Clinic will use PTEC's
track to conduct North America's
first study of the driving behaviour of normal elderly people and
those with Alzheimer-like symptoms, and plans are underway to
install a crash barrier on the
PTEC site to assist the police and
research agencies in accident reconstruction and investigation. :J

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• • • SPOTLIGHT • • •
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ON STAFF
Changes ...
Several staff changes have occurred over the summer. Police
Academy bade farewell to Brenda Sampson at the start of the
fall training season. As reported
in theJulyissue ofTheJINews,
Brenda has returned to UBC to
work toward a teaching degree in
English as a Second Language.
Taking Brenda's place is Robyn
Towl.e. Before coming to the JI
Robyn worked for a secretarial
service.
David Gantz.er has also left
the Police Academy. For the past
two years, David has been the
only full time resident on site in
Lawrence Hall dormitory. David
has returned to regular police
duties at his home department in
Saanich. He has been replaced in
Legal Studies by Cpl. Steve
Watt from West Vancouver Police
Department.
As Gary Bateman approaches
the end of his secondment to the
Police Academy as Program Director of Advanced Programs, Sgt.
Tony Needham from Va.ncouver
Police Department has come on
board in an understudy capacity.
Ingrid Pipke has recently become the first JI employee to be
seconded to the federal government in Ottawa. Ingrid left the
Police Academy in August to
spend two years with the federal
Solicitor General's ministry
where she will help design and
develop a series of training
programs for federal law enforcement personnel. We hope to have
an article from Ingrid next month
giving us her impressions of life
in the capital and work with the
'feds.'
Kathy Jung is the new person
staffing the Blake Hall reception
desk. In her new part time position, Kathy relieves Kathy
Kelsberg on switchboard and assists with room bookings and

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other duties in the Finance and
Administration Division. Kathy
J. also works part time at the
New World Harbourside Hotel
Lorraine Ordano has moved
from Finance and Administration
Division to the Registration Office where she will assist Office
Supervisor, Kerry Gruber.
Tara Cox completed her sixweek term in Fire Academy at
the end of August. Tara has
resumed her studies at Kwantlan
College where she is in a UBC
transfer program, working
toward a degree in nutritional
science.
Sylvia Habisch is the new
secretary to the Deputy Director
of the Fire Academy, Irwin DeVries. Before coming to the JI in
August Sylvia was a secretary
with the Canadian Bar Association. Anne Langdon has also
joined Fire Academy. Anne, who
has been Administrative Assistant to Fire Academy Director
Paul Smith since September,
worked for a movie production
company before coming to the JI.
Lisa Freshwater took up new
duties as Program Secretary for
continuing education programs in
Emergency Health Services
Academy in early September.
She will work under the direction
of Derek White. This was an internal move for Lisa, who had previously worked as Program
Secretary for the Emergency
Medical Attendants (EMA) II program. Edlynn Rivard will
replace Lisa with the EMA II program.
In Educational Services
Division, Brenda Dahlie has
just been hired to fill a Program
Planner position. Brenda, who
will work with Shelley Rivkin,
has a Master's degree in Community and Regional Planning
from UBC. She most recently
worked as a planner and research
analyst for the District of North
Vancouver.
After nearly ten years in the
Resource Centre, the library's

Audiovisual Booking Clerk, Angela Yannacopoulos, will leave
at the end of September to pursue
other work. Lydia Stewart, who
has worked at the JI for the past
two years as the Interlibrary
Loan Clerk, will move into
Angela's position.

More changes..•
The JI "family'' is growing at a
rapid rate, and Ed Services staff
are doing more than their part;
On August 26, Tricia Schairer
was married (she's now Tricia
Kobayashi), and on September
19, Kate and Bob Walker (Extension Programs and Media Centre,
respectively) became the proud
parents of a healthy baby boy
named Cameron.
The "family" expanded even
further with the birth, on September 25, of Derek White's
daughter, Rebecca. Derek is in
Emergency Health Services
Academy.
And it will grow still more on
October 14 when Sabrina Chen,
Finance and Administration, is
married.

Education .••
Kelly Murphy and Derek
White, Emergency Health Services Academy, are both completing bachelors degrees in Business
Administration at Pacific
Western University.

Conferences ...
Steve Hess, Advanced
Programs Coordinator, Police
Academy, attended a U.S. State
Department seminar in San Francisco on the subject of Law Enforcement and the Diplomatic
Community. Topics discussed at
the conference included privileges
and immunities granted to
diplomatic and consular person-

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nel, accreditation, and handling
of incidents involving the
diplomatic community. Steve's attendance at the conference is
recognition of the fact that, with
the growing influence of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland
in international circles, and the
increase in the incidence of
demonstrations in front of consular premises, the Academy will
need to provide training for police
supervisors in this aspect of policing.
Three Fire Academy staff,
IrwinDeVries, Jack Tyler and
Len Garis, attended the
weekend Volunteer Fighters Conference in Duncan in July. The
conference serves as a forum for
special educational seminars and
offers an opportunity for volunteer fire departments to resolve
some of the problems they face.
In August, Fire Academy Director Paul Smith attended the
Canadian Fire Chiefs Conference
in Montreal and the International
Fire Chiefs Aviation Conference
in Indianapolis. These conferences provided participants with an
opportunity to attend educational
programs, review new technologies and equipment1 and have
input on key issues involving fire
service and fire protection and
safety.
Paul Smith also attended a
national conference on fire fighter
training in August. This conference was held at the Manitoba
Fire College in Brandon. He
spoke to the 120 delegates about
the JI Fire Academy's training for
Native fire fighters in BC and Saskatchewan.
Paul Pershick, Program
Director, Corrections Academy, attended The Second International
Conference on Prison Education
held at Wadham College, Oxford,
England, from September 25 to
28. The conference was organized
by the Open University in association with the Chief Education
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Correctional Educati_j)n Association.
,
The conference,'limited to 80
participants, was by invitation
only. The gathering was truly international in flavour, with
delegates attending not just from
Canada and the United Kingdom,
but also Australia, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
France, Hong Kong, Republic of
Ireland, Netherlands, Nigeria,
Norway, Portugal, Sri Lanka,
Tanzania and the United States.
Paul was asked to speak on
staff development strategies. He
also took along a variety of illustrative material to inform
delegates of the various programs
offered through the Justice Institute and the British Columbia
Corrections Branch.

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ON VISITORS
Mary Cann, Manager of Training for the Emergency Measures
Organization, Ontario, visited the
JI campus for three days in
August. She was here primarily
to look at the JI's arrangements
for emergency preparedness training and share training ideas with
PEP Academy Director, Sam
Meckbach.
Val Patte, the new assistant
deputy director of Police Services
• for British Columbia visited the
Justice Institute this month to
meet with Principal Larry Goble
and Police Academy Director
Phil Crosby-Jones.
Mr. Patte expressed great interest and support for the training
and services provided by the Institute to his Branch. These include contracts to train all
municipal police officers in the
province, the Provincial Emergency Program and special projects
and workshops provided through
Extension Programs in support of
crime prevention and victim assistance. D

Police
Academy
sponsors a
conference
on critical
incident stress-·As an adjunct to the November 16--~
17 Critical Incident Stress
workshop sponsored by five JI
divisions/academies, the Police
Academy is sponsoring a two-day
conference entitled "Police
Perspectives on Critical Incident
Stress." Police managers from
around the province, including
senior officers from all RCMP subdivisions, will attend the conference, which is also to be held
at the JI, on November 7 and 8.
The Police Academy conference
is designed to make police
management more aware of the
concerns and recent developments in the area of critical incidence stress. The featured
speaker at the conference will be
supervisory special agent James
Hom of the FBI Training
Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Special agent Horn is a recognized expert in the field of
psychological services for law enforcement. 0

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Library staff spend their sumriler
weeding, barcoding and cataloging
With their new computerized
catalogue, Resource Centre librarians can now do searches for you
(or teach you how to do your own)
of all of the books and audiovisual
material in their collection. Cataloging changes that took place
over the summer will also enable
them to compile and print bibliographies in just minutes.
Library staff also streamlined
their collection this summer.
With advice and assistance from
people throughout the JI, they
weeded out 1 550 outdated, invalid and irrelevant titles.
Their final summer project
was barcoding every one of the 9

000 books in their collection.
With the barcoding complete,
library staff are ready now for the
installation of a network which
will enable users to sign out
books electronically - just as
Safeway checks out groceries.
The only difference will be that
the library will use a light pen instead of passing the item over a
counter scanner. When the JI
library joins the institute-wide
network, you'll also be able to access the library catalogue right
from your office. When will this
happen? Library staff are just
waiting for word from the JI Information Systems Committee. a

Programs for
Native fire
fighters
started in BC
and
Saskatchewan
In August, the Fire Academy
began training programs for
Native fire fighters in both BC
and Saskatchewan. Each
province has its own program.
British Columbia Native fire
departments are involved in the
Volunteer Fire Fighter Certificate
Program, while the theme in Saskatchewan is Train the Trainer.
When Saskatchewan's program is completed participating
departments should be able to
conduct their own training in
some of the basics of fire fighting. a

Extension programs organizes orientation
session on Native culture and history
On September 13-15, 95 .staff from
the ministries of Solicitor General
and Attorney General participated in an orientation session
organized by Extension Programs
and held at the Kamloops Indian
Band Cultural Centre. The purpose was to prepare regional staff
for consultations with native organizations and political representatives regarding their
increased access to the justice system. A key component of the
orientation session was to
familiarize participants with Native culture and history and sensitize them to some of the
obstacles Native people currently
face.
Participants were welcomed by
Chief Clarence Jules, a
hereditary chief of the Shushwap
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aside their preconceived notions
about aboriginal people, listen
openly to their views and concerns about the justice system,
and consider the value of customary law as a viable form of social control. Ron George,
President of the United Native
Nations, discussed the impact of
European domination on Native
family life and social structure.
He spoke movingly about his own
experiences as a non status Indian and the difficulties he encountered trying to live in two
worlds. The final speaker was
Vina Starr who talked about the
negative effect of current tax laws
and fishing regulations on the
livelihood of Native communities.
The afternoon session profiled
a number of programs initiated
by Native organizations to assist

their people in accessing the
criminal justice system. These
programs range from the preparation of videos on Native beliefs
and customary law directed
toward judges, to the Native
Peacekeepers started by the Lillooet District Tribal Council.
The second day focused on the
mechanics of the consultative
process, with participants being
asked to prepare an action plan
that they could implement when
they returned to their own communities.
Two days is too short to adequately inform people of the vast
history and culture of Native
people. However, Chief Jules eloquently concluded the session by
expressing his hope that in the
two days participants ''began to
walk a little way in our shoes." 0

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Ritual abuse: extension programs
tackles new issue
Ritual abuse of children has become a bigger problem than most
people imagine, both in BC and
across Canada. According to
lawyers, police, social workers
and other professionals, ritual
abuse can encompass physical,
sexual and psychological abuse
and can include murder. They say
that, as with child sexual abuse,
children are targeted because
they are powerless. And in the
case of satanic cults, children are
seen as being special to God and
therefore not revered by Satan.
Dr. Larry Pazder, a Victoria
psychiatrist who is a leading
North American expert on ritual
abuse, was interviewed by The
Vancouver Sun for a major article
which appeared on September 16.
Dr. Pazder says that ritual abuse
points to a broader problem than
satanism, which refers only to
cults that worship the devil.

"There are about 8 000 destructive cults in the US and all types
of belief systems that can be used
to desecrate life. Some have very
heavy connections with drugs and
pornography. n
Recently, Extension Programs
brought in two experts in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment
of ritual abuse victims: Rob Tucker, Executive Director of the
Toronto-based Council on Mind
Abuse, and Dr. Catherine Gould,
one of the most experienced
psychologists working in the field.
Sessions conducted by Tucker and
Gould were oversubscribed, with
strong participation from police,
Crown counsel, crisis line staff
and child care workers.
The Sun article quotes Wendy
Harvey, a Vancouver Crown counsel and well-known child advocate
in BC courts, as saying that,
while she believes ritual abuse of

children is going on, she would
not bring it before the court. "We
just don't believe juries will believe it and don't necessarily believe that judges will either, so we
call it physical or sexual abuse."
North Vancouver family lawyer
James Martin agrees. He is currently handling two cases that he
says involve claims of ritual
abuse, but the cases will go forward as "general abuse" cases. 0

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Ambulance administrators from throughout Japan visited the JI in September to study
the BC ambulance system. Representatives from BC Ambulance Service accompanied
the visitors on their tour, and EHS Academy Director Tony WI/I/ams and JI Prine/pal
Larry Goble (on the far right) welcomed them to the JI.

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JI instructor
helpsW-5
with a feature on
youth gangs
W-5, the acclaimed CTV news
program, is planning to produce
a segment on organized gang activity. The focus will be on youth
gangs, particularly Asian youth
gangs. Vancouver has been
prominent among Canadian
cities for its response to this problem and will be featured in the
production.
The research team at W-5 has
interviewed Justice Institute
instructor, Chris Beresford, for
background information. Beresford worked as the specialist
probation officer in Vancouver
with responsibility for gang
members from late 1987 until
early 1989. He joined the Corrections Academy at the JI in June
1989.
W-5 is planning to film segments in Vancouver this fall.
The air date has not been set. CJ

• • • NOTES & NOTICES • • •
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Police support Tercy Fox run
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Police Academy showed strong
support for the 1989 Terry Fox
Run on September 17: forty-four
police recruits, police academy
staff and their families took part
as runners or cyclists. Paula Connolly from Corrections Academy,
and her husband Pat, also took
part in the run.

United Way campaign
underway
Rick Evans has been appointed
to chair the Justice Institute's
United Way campaign this year,
and representatives from each
academy division will help him

distribute pledge forms. He also
plans to organize a Halloween
Dance for staff and students. The
dm1ce will be held in the gymnasium on October 28, so start
thinking about your disguises for
that occasion, those who need
them!

1988/89 Annual
Report published
The JI's 1988/89 Annual
Report has now been released.
Directors of each academy and
division have copies on hand if
you'd like to look at one. If you'd
prefer to have your own copy,
contact Sabrina Chen at local
245. CJ

Extension Programs staff
'retreats' to Granville Island

Historic day for
Fire Academy
Fire Academy made history in
September when it took delivery
of two valuable pieces of equipment on the same day: a new
'state of the art' pumper (fire
truck) and a destroyed airplane.
Look for photos and a story in the
October JI News. 0

The photo above shows extension
programs and registration office
staff at the close of the first day of
a three day retreat at the Granville Island Barge in July. Front
row: Kate Walker, left; Pat Ross,
right. Second row, left to right:

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Marje Burdine, Sandra Rice, Shelley Rivkin, Bev Karakochuk,
Tricia Schairer (now Kobayashi)
and Gail Makowsky. Back row:
Patricia ¥cN eill, Tad Dick, Marg
Huber, Cindy Douglas, Flora MacLeod and Kerry Gruber. 0

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