June 1990

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New Courts Academy at the JI
In the past month, the Courts
Management and Justice Institute Boards have agreed to the
establishment of a Courts
Academy at the Justice Institute.
Since 1978, the Justice Institute has been providing courses
for managers and supervisors,
deputy sheriffs and other court
services staff in such content
areas as management skills, systems operations, self defence,
driver training, handgun instruction, instructional techniques,
and health and safety responsibilities. From 1987 to the
present, this training has been
delivered through a contract with
the Educational Services Division
of the JI.
Justice Institute President
Larry Goble sees the change as
filling a missing link at the JI and
welcomes courts back to the
academy structure.
With the new structure, Court
Services Academy will undertake
several new initiatives in training, including an advanced driver
education program for deputy
sheriffs, revised systems technology and contract management.
In addition, support will be maintained for its core programs and
special projects- such as a
sophisticated multi-court case
tracking system. Acting Program
Director Chris Poole says,
"Court services personnel have
been asking for their own
academ at the Justice Institute

to restore Courts' identity as a
vital part ofjustice~related training activity."
The new Academy will be
managed by a Program Director,
who will be a Court Services
employee seconded to the Justice

Institute. Staff will also include a
part time Deputy Sheriff Staff
Development Officer, who will be
seconded to co-ordinate deputy
sheriff training, a part time Program Co-ordinator, and a Program Secretary. 0

Native firefighters complete
instructor training program

Native firefighters Clifford Azab, Jim Billy, Bla~e Jones and James Wilsonrecent graduates of the Jl's fire training officers program.

Four BC native firefighters broke
new ground when they graduated
from the Justice Institute ofBC's
fire training officers program on

June 3.. '.!'he :m.onth-long program
qualified Clifford Azak of the
Canyon City Band, Jim Billy of
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Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division
Educational Services Division • Emergency Health Services Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

Native Firefighters... con'tfrom page 1

the Cook's Ferry Band, and Blake
Jones and James Wilson, both of
the Masset Band, to deliver
training in fire fighting to native
fire departments around the
province.
Sponsored by Indian and Northem Affairs Canada, the Justice Institute selected the four B.C.
native instructors to conduct a
total of 81 courses in municipal
fire protection for native band fire
departments and districts in the
1990-91 academic year. "Indian
Affairs needed to train native
band fire departments, so instead
of hiring trainers and setting up a
separate system they brought
their best candidates to us," Fire
Academy Director Paul Smith
said, "It's a great example of how
the JI can work with all levels of
government."
Azak, Billy, Jones and Wilson
are experienced fire service volunteers. Their training period at
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the Justice Institute included intensive instructional techniques,
incident command and technical
skills development. They have
been trained to relevant portions
of the provincial fire service standard, which is based on internationally accepted fire training
standards, and they are now certified B.C. Fire Training Officers.
The instructors will conduct

courses from one to three
days in duration at band locations
around the province. Once the
terms of their faculty appointments with the Justice Institute
are complete, they will be eligible
for further contract work. In addition, their employability as
firefighters in municipal and
federal fire departments will be
greatly enhanced by the training
and experience they received
during their term with the JI.
The Justice Institute's Fire
Academy has offered training to
native band fire departments in
B.C. and Saskatchewan since
1983. This new program is the
first time native instructors have
been employed to offer the courses. 0
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•••SPOTLIGHT•••
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On staff
Changes
Fotir new part time Instructors
in Fire Academy, Clifford Azak,
Jim Billy, Blake Jones and
James Wilson, will conduct a
total of 81 courses in municipal
fire protection for native band fire
departments and districts during
1990-91. The four have just completed a Fire Academy instructor
training program at the JI. See
story, page 1.
Pat Abercrombie and Norm
Matheson have also joined Fire
Academy. Norm has been
seconded to instruct in the EMAl
program while Pat will work with
Irwin DeVries. Before coming
to the JI, Pat staffed a one-person
office for the Vancouver 86ers Soccer Team.
Interest in working as a summer student at the Justice Institute is at a high level this year.
Fire Academy received 56 applications for the position of student
editor under a Challenge 90
grant. After interviews with
some very highly qualified applicants, the Academy selected
Michael Roth. Michael will be
editing distance education and
other Fire Academy material
until the beginning of September.
In Educational Services
Division, IUm Castelein and
Claire Hogarth have been hired
to assist, part time, with casino
volunteer training workshops.
Both are on term appointments.
Louise Cater is the new part
time Switchboard Operator/Receptionist in Blake Hall. She
replaces Kathy Jung. Louise
also runs her own residential window cleaning business and hopes,
one day, to be a missionary.
The Library has just hired two
new people. Annette Krammer
will be starting July 23 on a Challenge 90 grant to work on the JI
photograph collection. Annette's
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couver Public Library and a short
stint at the CBC Newscentre
Library. She will return to UBC
this fall to complete her Master's
degree in Library Science. Glenda Wray will start, part time, on
July 3 as vacation relief for Joan
McLennan who will be taking
the summer off. Glenda will then
be full time for six months starting in September while Diane
Nation is on maternity leave.
Glenda is a library technician
with nine years' experience in
libraries of corporations such as
Trans Mountain Pipe Line Company and Alcan. She has just
completed a year toward her degree in history at UBC and is
looking forward to working in an
educational environment.

Recognition
Self-Counsel Press has just
published the third edition of
Patricia McNeill's book,
Land.lording in Canada. The
book outlines landlord-tenant
laws in all the provinces and both
territories. This is Patricia's
eighth book.

Announcements
Megan is the name Gail
Makowsky has given to her new
daughter. Megan was born on
May 24, and both mother and
daughter are fine.

Conferences
Fire Academy was asked to
participate in the volunteer
firefighters' conference held in
Vernon from May 4-6. Jack
Tyler, Jim Bond and Paul
Smith attended the conference,
which is an annual event for the
Okanagan volunteer fire departments. The Academy's participation included presentations on
First Responder and Incident
Command.
The Fire Chiefs ofB.C. held
their 59th annual conference in
Prince George on June 3-7. At

the opening ceremonies of this
well-attended conference, The
Honourable Bruce Strachan, Minister of Advanced Education, announced the new Fire Services
Diploma Program (see Notes and
Notices, page 6). A feature
speak.er at the conference was
Deputy Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, Michael Farrell, who spoke on last October's
earthquake in San Francisco.

Jackie Goodwin, Irwin DeVries and Paul Smith attended
the conference.
During the week of June 12,
April Haddad attended the National Workshop for Law Enforcement Librarians held at the
Canadian Police College in Ottawa. While in our nation's capital she also attended the
Canadian Library Association
Conference and included visits to
the Canadian Police College
Library, the Solicitor General's
Library, the Library of Parliament, and Meech Lake.
John Laverock, Director of
Corrections Academy, attended a
meeting of the Heads of Corrections Training in Halifax from
June 5-7, 1990. Also attending
were the Directors of Training for
eight provinces, the Directors of
the five Corrections Service of
Canada regional staff colleges,
and senior training staff from the
national headquarters in Ottawa.
The meeting provided an opportunity for each jurisdiction to
share information related to training needs, recruit training curriculum models, recruitment and
selection processes, training of
trainers, supervisory training
and specialized courses. Participants identified a number of
common training priorities, including courses related to dealing
with sexual offenders, native justice, mentally disordered offenders, and infectious diseases.
While in Halifax, John took in
a tour of the Nova Scotia Youth
Centre, a modem (1988) facility
which holds up to 120 young offenders. a
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Ringing bells fai l to alarm JI lunch crowd
by Jackie Goodwin

Remember fire drills when you
were in grade school? The teacher was sort of edgy all morning, .
then, in the middle of social
studies, the fire alarm sounded.
Everyone lined up at the door in
prearranged partnerships and followed the teacher out to the
playground. Once outside, the
teacher took her register and
called the roll. The whole student
body stood around and waited
while the teachers all delivered attendance sheets to the principal
and vice principals, who stood
with their arms crossed surveying
the scene with an air of authority
and criticism. When all attendance sheets were in, the principal looked at his watch and
everyone filed back into the stuffy
school and reluctantly returned to
reading about prairie wheat and
the CPR.

The JI News

is taking
abrea.K
for the
summer
but
we'll be back
in September.
Deadline
for• the next
•
1ssue1s
September 17.
Have a happy
sum.mer.
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Now that we are adults and do
not have a teacher to lead us out
of the building, what do we do
when the fire alarm sounds?
On Thursday, May 24, 1990,
Dennis Leigh was in his Fire
Academy uniform because he was
instructing a group of native
firefighters. Dennis, the
firefighters, and a cafeteria full of
people, were eating lunch in the
cafeteria when the fire alarm
sounded. No one left at the sound
of the alarm. Several people
looked around and spotted Dennis
in his uniform. Dennis stood up
and walked out, leading everyone
outside.
There is an interesting observation here. We were all trained to
follow a teacher to safety. But
what do we do when there is
either no leader present or we are
the teacher? Studies* show that

when people are trained in appropriate fire exit drill behaviour,
they know to walk directly out of
the building. When people are untrained, they wait for a leader.
With our commitment to public
safety - which obviously includes fire safety- the Justice
Institute must present a positive
example of safety issues to participants and students who attend our courses.
*For an interesting study on
the issue, see Leadership and
Group Formation in High-Rise
Building Evacuation by B.K
Jones of the National Research
Council, and J. Ann Hewitt.
(Available in the JI library.)
Jackie Goodwin is a
Co-ordinator/ Instructor in Fire
kademy. 0

PTEC's latest research project
is testing long trucks

PTEC, in conjunction with the
Motor Vehicle Branch and the
B.C. Trucking Association, has
been conducting tests oflong,
combination truck/trailer units at
the Boundary Bay test facility.
Different combinations of these
vehicles have been operating on
highways in parts of the United
States and Alberta, but under current legislation they cannot
operate in British Columbia. The
trucks have proved useful for
hauling loads that are light in

weight but bulky; they eliminate
the need for two units by using
one extra-long one. Because of
BC's mountainous terrain, extensive tests are being conducted for
the stability of these long vehicles
on curves. Braking, emergency
maneuvers and tracking ability
are included in the tests. On completion of the tests and research,
a limited number of vehicles
could be operated under special
permit on a designated highway
such as the Coquihalla. 0

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The department with just 3 guys (Dispelling myths about the Media Centre's "on location" assignments)

by Just One of the 3 Guys

Lakeside Correctional Centre for
Women, 222 Main Street, Victoria, Kamloops, Meares Island,
Boundary Bay, Vancouver International Airport, Chateau Lake
Louise ... these are just some of
the locations that the "3 Guys"
have had to cover in just the past
couple of weeks. If you know how
to operate a camera, people will
send you almost anywhere.
What exactly is it that the
media centre "guys" do in all
those weird and wonderful locations? Well, one example is
spending a week with a group of
judges at the Western Judicial
Education Conference at Chateau
Lake Louise. Through the
President's office, the Justice Institute provided the services of
one media centre guy, plus equipment, and one registration office
person (Kerry Gruber, Supervisor). Both were shipped off to
spend one week in the (according
to Mrs. Gruber) "just adequate"
accommodations of the newly
refurbished and expanded
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Chateau Lake Louise resort.
Mrs. Gruber was heard to complain, on occasion, of having only
five restaurants and room service
to choose from in the hotel. Being
totally cut off from her usual
plethora of fine dining establishments, she was unsure that
the Chateau's selection would suffice. I believe she was able to
muddle through.
Although it was a beautiful
location and a wonderful hotel,
there was plenty of work to be
done. Kerry Gruber was responsible for registering all of the approximately 400 participants
(including the JI's former principal, Bernie Doyle). The days at
the registration desk were long
and not without their share of
confusion. Even so, Mrs. Gruber
managed to find time to check out
most, if not all, of those five restaurants, and to locate the
hospitality suite.
As for our poor media centre
guy, he did not have time even to
locate the restaurants. He was

sent there for one reason and one
reason alone: to work, work and
work. A typical day started just
before 7 a.m. with the morning
meeting, followed by equipment
set up and check, and then,
depending on the day, seven to
eleven hours on his feet video
taping the presenters. In between video taping duties, he was
responsibile for fixing any
problems that popped up with the
equipment spread throughout the
vastness of the hotel's eight
floors. This included repairing a
photocopier. This poor guy was
so busy that he didn't even get
outside the hotel for a breath of
fresh mountain air. Mrs. Gruber
assured him, however, that the
scenery was breathtaking and the
air invigorating.
Even if these locations do
sound exciting, it's really just
another long, hard day for one of
the "3 Guys."
This "One of the 3 Guys" is better known as Media Technician
Bob Walker. CJ
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• • • NOTES & NOTICES • • •
Fire Academy Director's
Award goes to Coquitlam
Chief
Fire Academy Director Paul
Smith presented this year's
Director's Award to Doug
Johnson, Chief of the Coquitlam
Fire Department, at the Fire
Chiefs Association of BC Annual
Conference in June.
The Director's Award was established by Fire Academy in
1986 and is presented annually to
an individual who, in the past
year, has made a significant contribution to training in the fire
service. Chief Johnson provided
a fully staffed pumper, aerial unit
and operator, assistant fire chief
and unit and, in addition, assisted in closing an active street
in the District of Coquitlam. The
purpose of all this was to produce
the video tape on electrical safety
for firefighters.
The Director's award consists
of a plaque which remains at the
Academy. The recipient receives
a specially-designed, framed, certificate.

There's a "library" at the JI
The Resource Centre has just
changed its name to Library.
Library staff found that, upon
hearing the telephone answered

The Justice Institute
of B.C.
is dedicated to
improving the quality
of justice
and public safety
by developing
and delivering
training programs
and offering
educational services
to professionals
and the public.
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with "Resource Centre," many
clients would then ask to be transferred to the "Library." So, the
name has been changed to what
it really is ... a Library.

days have been maintained at
19,970.

Computer training expanded

Starting this fall, fire services
personnel, occupational health
and safety personnel, insurance
industry professionals, and
others, will be able to enroll in a
college-level diploma program
which was jointly developed by
the Justice Institute of B.C. and
the Open Leaming Agency.
Students enrolled in the program may take specified courses
in any recognized college or institution, together with a core of
technically-specialized courses offered by the Justice Institute's
Fire Academy through distance
education.

With the installation of six
micro computers and eight
dummy terminals in classroom
11, Blake Hall, Corrections
Academy now offers expanded
computer training to Corrections
Branch and Justice Institute
staff. Programs offered are basic
and advanced Word Perfect,
Probation Records System,
Provincial Case File, Electronic
Mail Transfer, Lotus 1,2,3, and
DOS.
JI staff have now had access to
training in both basic and advanced Word Perfect, and classes
are fully booked into March 1991
for Corrections Branch employees
for training in Probation Records
System and Provincial Case File.

Stats profile Police Academy
and recruits
• During the decade of the 80s,
the Police Academy that serves the 12 municipal police
departments and Ports
Canada Police graduated 32
recruit classes comprised of
732 constables.
• Ofthe 103 new candidates who
entered the Academy in
1989/90, 10% represented
visible minorities and 18%
were females. Almost all
recruits had a minimum of two
years post-secondary education; many had a great deal of
professional experience. The
average age was 25 years.
At the start of the last decade,
there were 29 people on Police
Academy staff and the operating
budget was $1, 707 ,678 for the
production of20,139 student
training days. Ten years later,
staffis down to 17 and the budget
is $1,370,065. Student Training

Fire services diplollla
program ready to go

International conference on
corrections education to be
held July 8-11
The 4th international conference of the Correctional Education Association is rapidly
approaching and up to 600
delegates from 18 countries are
expected to attend. The Justice
Institute is one of the sponsors
for the conference. Paul Pershick,
Program Director in Corrections
Academy, is on the planning committee.
A number of delegates from
eastern bloc countries will be attending and will be sponsored by
various agencies such as BC Corrections Branch, Correctional Services of Canada and Simon
Fraser University. 0

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Summertime

JIBC joins

Paul Harris reflects on the mood at the JI - and elsewhere in BCas summer holidays approach
.I} .I} ••• Summer time ... .I}

and the
livin' is ... WHAT? Easy? No way!
Try sloppy, try humid, muddy,
moist or just downright drenched!
By the time you read this it may
actually lw. summer, and the
weather may finally be in sync
with the season. As I write, however - June
12 - it's well
... you
remember,
i don't have
to remind
you. In
Vancouver,
where
during the
winter we
have to
squeegee
our car windows rather
than the scraping that the rest of
the country is condemned to,
we've come to expect - to
DEMAND - summer, if not in
May, then certainly in June.
Not surprising, then, that in a
place where the "Endless Summer" exists in the minds of many,
the most notable thing about the
waterlogged beginning to the summer of'90 is not the amount of
rain that's been falling, but the
way it has totally dominated conversations, news and weather
reports. Rarely a day passes
without talk of mass suicides, tips
on how to deal with giant slugs,
and news as gloomy as the skies.
We hear of topics as diverse as
the devastation of the summer
fashion industry, crop failures,
mud slides, floods and how a life
guard spends his or her time
guarding an empty pool. Real
tragedy too, with real death happening in the interior of the
province.
I'm relatively new to Vancouver, and at first I found this
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what pathetic. To a person raised
in Ottawa and Toronto, this fixation with the idea that the
weather must be perfect in order
to enjoy life seems positively
bizarre, at first. Those of you
from anywhere remotely near to
eastern Canada or the US will
know that
life could
not exist in
these parts
ifthe
weather
had to conform to
such
utopian notions.
One of
my oldest
and best
friends,
weaned on the tunes of the Beach
Boys and Jan and Dean, has attempted for most of his life to live
something approaching a beach
fantasy each summer. This was
tough while he was growing up in
Hamilton, though he made the
mandatory pilgrimages to the infamous Wassaga Beach on Georgian Bay most long weekends.
It's even tougher in Edmonton,
where he now lives. Hanging out
at a chlorine-scented swimming
pool and fending off the hordes of
giant northern Alberta mosquitos
just doesn't quite cut the mustard
of a Hollywood beach fantasy.
And he ain't exactly Frankie
Avalon, either. I pity him. But
not too much, as I - on the other
hand - have always regarded
those to whom the weather was
more than a passing interest,
with a mixture of pity and scorn.
To me, moaning about inclement
weather was tantamount to an admission of a lack of inner resources. Raised in cities, and mostly
an urban person, I could never figure out this whining in a world
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BCAC
(now
known as
AECBC)
- translation follows
At its April 19, 1990, meeting, the
Justice Institute Board unanimously passed a motion recommending that "the Justice
Institute of British Columbia take
out membership in the British
Columbia Association of Colleges
(BCAC)" (which was renamed the
Advanced Education Council of
BC (AECBC) at the June 16th annual meeting).
As an organization representing all 20 colleges and institutes in BC, the purpose of the
new AECBC is to play a strong, informed, advocacy role for advanced education. The JI will be
represented on the Council by
Board Chairman Bob Stewart and
President Larry Goble.
This year's Annual Meeting of
the BCAC was held at the
Whistler Conference Centre on
June 14-16. The meeting was part
of a two-day conference focusing
on educational concerns in BC. It
included such topics as the following:
more access to education and
training opportunities,
• the role of the college board in
evaluation,
• sexual harassment in the
workplace, and
• the labour market in the 90s.
Q

The conference highlighted new
directions, new dimensions, and
new solutions to problems
educators and trainers are facing.
Look for more information in future issues of The JI News on activities, issues and actions
resulting from the founding of the
new Council. 0

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EHS Academy has a new look
by Barbara Hunter

As new and existing training programs are being developed and
modified, EHS Academy has
found that the tasks being per- ·
formed by support staff have escalated. In order to ensure the
greatest efficiency and performance, we have reorganized the
work flow throughout the Academy by changing our support
coverage from a pattern of overall
program secretary support to one
of task-based support.
So, let us introduce our staff
and their new positions: Travel/Accounts Clerk - Edlynn Rivard,

who takes responsibility for arranging all student travel, meals
and accommodations, and performing all training program
expenditure processing duties;
our Word Processors - Jeanne
Karim and Ann Grant (a job
sharing position) who type most
of the course material and correspondence; our Data Entry
Clerk - Genie Regalado, who
registers all courses and students, and maintains their final
achievement results in the
Academy database; our General
Office Clerk - Kathryn Reid, who
sets up all student files, copies
and packages course material,
and maintains the general student filing system; and our two
Receptionists/Secretaries to the
Program Directors - Lisa Freshwater and Brenda Miller, who,
along with performing all the Program Directors' secretarial

duties, handle the bulk of the
Academy's incoming calls, set up
and maintain the Academy
central filing system and act as
receptionists. We still have our
other support positions, which include Glen Bolderson - Stockworker, Marlene LeComte Secretary, Director's Office, and
Barbara Hunter - Divisional
Secretary.
With all theses changes in the
Academy, including job descriptions, central filing systems, and
additional training programs, we
will be working through the tasks
and setting up new Academy procedures. We hope that this new
look will bring renewed interest
in these support positions and
provide further career growth
and challenges.
Barbara Hunter is Divisional
Secretary, EHS Academy LJ

Summertime • .. continued from page 7
full of books to be read, libraries
I love to hang out and barbecue in
to hang out in, nightclubs to visit,
the back yard, to spend a fine
music to listen to, galleries to
Saturday or Sunday bicycling
around the citY, and to me a
haunt, life to be lived, you know?
Time was when
------~,----, beautiful sunny
sunshine or the
summer day
spent placing a
lack of it made
no difference to
few dollars on
me, because I
the ponies at Ex
Park, with its
seemed to spend
most of the
dynamite vista of
daylight hours in
the North Shore,
bed anyway, getis hard to beat.
So, here's
ting ready to
make the rounds again until four
hoping that it's all happening by
or five a.m.
the time you read this. .b ••. Sum
I have a confession to make,
sum sum sum sum sum summerthough. Since I moved to the
time ... .b .b ••• sum sum sum sum
Lower Mainland, here, I'm turnsum sum summertime .b ••• .b do
ing into a sun worshipper too. I
wah doo ah... .b
don't know if Lotusland is turning
Have a good summer, JI. And
have good holidays, people! See
my mind to mush, or it's just a
sign of getting older, but I now
you in the fall.
like to get up early, I pray for sunshine, and my moods change as
Paul Harris is a stockworker in
quickly as Pacific lows pass over
Finance and Administration
Division ... and a newly converted
the city. It's infectious, this fixation with outdoor life. Nowadays
sun worshipper. LJ
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