through the province, the Institute exports its graduates around the world.
For instance, it has trained several of the Canadian Armed Forces Medical
Technicians who've served on active duty at Kandahar, Afghanistan. Within
British Columbia, its courses have helped students improve policing for the
Sc a Laat ae ™  Stlatl’imx Tribal Police Board of Interior Salish First Nations. JIBC gradu-
", 2s : = 27= ates from Abu Dhabi, after training in the Fire and Safety Division, were
immediately called into service to participate in earthquake rescue efforts
in Pakistan. There seems to be no end to the ways the JIBC can adapt its
learning methods to solve new problems. As life in B.C., Canada and the
world grew more complex in the late twentieth century, it became urgent to
develop consistent professional programs of superior quality based on the
highest ethical standards for those entrusted to help those who need help

the most.
At least eight people can claim to have been there when the Justice

iné JIBC's first hone Institute was born April 27, 1978. Others have devoted their careers to it.
wes ine comnlax of JoHN HoGartu was one of a number of legal thinkers who migrated
bulidings ia re seria to B.C. during the NDP’s brief first governing term (1972-75) under Dave
cree of Vencourr's Barrett. Hogarth arrived in 1974 from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School.
Wesi Poine Grey—-witn 2 He moved here to found SFU’s new criminology department. The early
sturiaing vist? of ifie sau 1970s was one of those rare times when almost any educational innovation
end ine city, It tad beer like the JIBC seemed not just possible but blameworthy if left undone.
ainilitary station during Hogarth accepted an appointment to the B.C. Police Commission,
the Secouie “vorie’ Vice which was responsible for police oversight and brought together several
anc than became tia people who had links to the Justice Institute. Hogarth soon became head
leriche Aid Screed! far Gir of the Commission, where he joined up with the REVEREND Bos BURROWS
Dery end the Blind. of First United Church, located in the Downtown Eastside. Burrows, fully

absorbed with the Police Commission, resigned his ministry to devote
himself full-time to law enforcement issues.

Another key member of the Commission was lawyer DAVID VICKERS,
who was to become Deputy Attorney General and, in time, a B.C. Supreme
Court justice. Vickers was one of the handful of bureaucrats who had
executive power in both the Barrett administration and the Social Credit
government of Bill Bennett (1975-86). As Deputy AG, he set out with a
legal reform agenda. Two uppermost items were the demolition of medi-
eval Oakalla Prison Farm and a near-clean sweep of lower-court personnel.
Municipal court judges, for instance, had not been required to have a legal
education. He was among the first to recognize post-secondary educational
institutions that would be fine-tuned to the utterly unique needs of Cana-
da’s most westerly province.

Vickers, in other words, wanted to improve and expand court
personnel and corrections staff, two tasks that would fit nicely into the
JIBC format, and the Attorney General was willing to underwrite the cost
of training enough new staff to address the clogged courts. In fact, Vickers