February/March 1992

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Move to New Westminster
confirmed

Left to right: Betty Toporowski, Mayor of New Westminster; The Honourable Anita Hagen,
Minister of Education and MLA for New Westminster; Alan Strickland, Public Relations,
Ministty of Advanced Education, Training and Technology; The Honourable Tom Perry,
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Minister of Advanced Education; Linda Barron, Chair of the New Westminster School Board;
and Bob Stewart, Chair of the Justice Institute Board of Directors.

It was a happy occasion for all
concerned, but nobody was smiling more broadly on the afternoon
of February 28 than JI Board
Chairman Bob Stewart.
"This is the realization of a
dream that started in 1977 ," he
told a news conference in New

Westminster City Hall, after hearing Advanced Education Minister
Tom Perry announce government
approval of $8. 7 million for the JI
to buy a site and plan a new facility.
As one of the co-founders of the
concept of the Justice Institute,

Stewart said he is delighted that
the new facility has been approved so that the JI can build a
facility which is designed with its
unique training needs in mind.
The Honourable Anita Hagen,
in her capacity as MLA. for New
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Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration • Courts Academy
Educational Services and Interdisciplinary Studies • Paramedic Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

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Westminster, said the New Westminster site was the first choice of
the JI board and will "enhance
the Justice Institute's ability to
provide effective training and related services in the areas of justice and public safety."
She said the total project has
an estimated value of $33. 7
million and should be open in
1994.
"In addition to having a history
as an administration centre and a
health centre, New Westminster
now becomes a major justice and
public safety education centre in
the province," she said.
The Honourable Tom Perry
referred to the international
reputation of the JI as a unique
training concept. He noted that,
while he will miss the JI near
his home on the Jericho lands,
he will "look forward to coming
back in two years to help you
move in."
Mayor Betty Toporowski of
New Westminster, and School
Board Chair Linda Barron, both
responded warmly to the
government's announcement of
the funding. The 4.8 hectare site
at 8th and McBride in New Westminster is owned two-thirds by
the school board and one-third by
the city.
JI President Larry Goble confirmed that the Institute has successfully concluded negotiations
to purchase the site, and will
begin a planning process for the
new facility immediately.

Highlights:
• $8.7 million approved for
planning and land acquisition.
• The new facility will be located on a 4.8 hectare site at
8th and McBride in New
Westminster (former Douglas College site).
• The new JI will be 12, 150
square metres (current facilities total 10,350 square metres).
• Construction is scheduled to
be completed by late 1994. D
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Jl's conflict resolution training
to be featured on
CBC's 'Ma1·ketplace'
The Toronto-based CBC-TV show,
Marketplace, will spotlight the
Justice Institute's Centre for Conflict Resolution Training on its
March 24 show. The camera crew
and anchor person were at the JI
in mid-February to shoot a mediation skills course and to interview

Co-ordinator, Marje Burdine. Segments on the Surrey-White Rock
Community Mediation Service,
the Frank Hurt Secondary Peer
Mediation Program, and the BC
Centre for Comwercial Disputes
will also be featured on the program. D

Powell River volunteers first to
receive new PEP Academy training
In the event of an emergency in
the.Powell River area, local volunteers will feel confident in their
ability to set up and run a Reception Centre to provide social services for evacuees, survivors and
rescue workers. Powell River volunteers were the first to attend
the new Reception Centre Management Training program offered by the PEP Academy.
Sally Pollock, the Academy's
Emergency Social Services (ESS)

Instructor, conducted the course
for approXimately 100 Powell
River volunteers on February 2022.
Powell River's Provincial
Emergency Program's Area Co-ordinator, Wally Berge, and his deputy, Fred Moss, demonstrated
their support by attending all
training sessions. Mayor Don
Lockstead gave the closing address at a reception hosted by the
city. D
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• • • S P 0 .T L I G H T • • •
On Staff...
Changes
IrwinDeVries will assume
new duties as Program Director,
Courts Academy in April.' Irwin is
currently Deputy Director of the
Fire Academy (see story, below).
Brad Pelligrin has joined the
Police Academy staff on secondment from the Port Moody Police
Department. He replaces Bob
Riley as Firearms Instructor.
Bob returned to operational duties with New Westminster Police.
The Corrections Academy has
announced the addition of

Cecilia Quan to its support staff
complement. Cecilia has been
hired, effective March 2, to fill
the newly-established, permanent
part-time Assistant Voucher
Clerk position in the Academy.
Cecilia brings with her a strong
accounting and computer-based
background.

Conferences
Phil Crosby-Jones, Director
of the Police Academy, attended a
four-day Special Olympics International Law Enforcement Torch
Run Conference held in Tampa,
Florida. Phil is the Director of
the BC Torch Run which will be

co-ordinated for the third year
from the Justice Institute.

Recognition
Marje Burdine has completed
her Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. Her Master
Paper, Mediation and Therapy:
Closing the Gap, focuses on divorce mediation with high conflict
couples. Marje also presented a
workshop on this topic at the Provincial Mediation Conference in
Vancouver, February 21-22, and
has been invited to present two
sessions at the National Interaction '92 Conference in Winnipeg,
May 6-9, 1992. CJ

Fire Academy hosts burn building presentations
by Paul Smith

As the Fire Academy progresses
with the initial stage of expanding the JI Safety Training Centre
facility at Maple Ridge, it needs
access to the most current information available on bum building
structures. This information will
assist the Academy in planning,
designing and constructing the onsite bum building to be used for
training.
With this in mind, on February
18 the Fire Academy hosted an informative day of presentations on
burn building structures. Four
companies showed products representing the technology and material currently available for
construction of bum buildings, including protective wall coverings
and gas fire simulators. The sessions were attended by 20 invited
guests including representatives
from the JI, the Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and
Technology, the Fire Commissioner and fire chiefs, Warnock
Hersey and Sigma Engineering.
The four companies came from
the eastern United States and
England. Each made a one-hour
presentation to the invited guests

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on new products that reflect
changes in live fire training technology that are available to provide a safer and cleaner environ-

ment for this type of training.
Paul Smith is Director of the
Fire Academy. CJ

Irwin Devries wins new appointment
as Program Director, Courts Academy
Irwin DeVries
has been
selected to fill
the position of
Program Director, Courts
Academy.
Irwin has
been with the
Justice Institute since 1984,
most recently
as Deputy Director of Fire
Academy.
Prior to joining
the JI staff, Irwin worked as
an instructional designer with
the Open Leaming Agency,
and for the University ofB.C.

as a curriculum
editor.
His areas of
specialty include competency based
training, training needs analysis, video and
print production,
o and distance edu.!! cation.
~ Irwin has re~ cently completed
if an M.A in Administrative,
Adult and Higher Education
fromUBC.
Irwin will assume his duties
at the beginning of April. CJ

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Anatomy of an autopsy
by Ingrid Pipke

One thing about working for the
Police Academy, I certainly get involved in some gut wrenching projects. One of the most recent
(and most memorable) was examining the entrails of an autopsy.
The Media Centre's Will Mah (Director) and Bob Walker (Bob lost
the coin flip for camera man)
video recorded the minute details,
from initial incision to final body
reconstruction ...
Watching the autopsy was a
fascinating, educational, and admittedly sometimes nauseous,
process. Dr. Sheila Carlyle, from
the Royal Columbian Hospital,
was meticulous both in dissecting
the body and in explaining what
she, as a pathologist, looks for
when conducting an autopsy.
The experience proved to be an interesting lesson in anatomy. It
also gave me a more profound respect for the physical, and perhaps spiritual, vulnerabilities of
this "bag of bones and layer of
skin" which hold together brain,
heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen,
liver and other bodily organs.
Produced in conjunction with
the BC Coroner's Service, the
tape is intended primarily for police recruits and provincial coron-

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Preparing to tape the autopsy are (left to right) Ted Hubert, scri~twriter for the video,
and the Media Centre's Will Mah and Bob Walker.

ers. The opening scene depicts
the role of the police and the coroner at a sudden death investigation. The second scenario focuses
on the autopsy. The closing montage describes the coroner's responsibilities in finalizing the
investigation. The tape will be distributed to provincial coroners,
municipal police departments

and the RCMP, and used for recruit training at the Police Academy.
The Police Academy will host
an official, JI screening when the
tape is ready for release. We
promise NOT to serve pizza!
Ingrid Pipke is a Program
Developer with the Police Acad-

Professional Development
Workshop for Jl's BCGEU Staff
June 11 and 12 are the dates set
for a professional development
workshop in Whistler for the JI's
BCGEU staff. Planned by the Administrative Services Committee,
with input from all BCGEU staff
at the Institute, the workshop
will focus on topics such as career
progress and change, personal
styles, conflict resolution strategies, and future plans of the JI.
Resource people will include several trainers who are familiar fig-

ures around the JI such as
J oyanne Landers, Stacey
Holloway and Vera Bergman.
Workshop objectives are to provide opportunities for personal
and professional development; to
increase staffs awareness of the
mission, corporate role, strategic
plan and activities of the JI; and,
to provide an opportunity for Justice Institute staff to develop networks for the exchange of
information and support. 0
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Fire Academy's Edukit program
nearing completion
by Irwin DeVries

Last year, the Minister of
Municipal Affairs announced a special funding
package to aid in completion of the Fire Academy's
Edukit program.
Firefighter Dan Murphy, who was seconded to
complete the development,
has produced five Edukits
in the last six months. His
record will amaze anyone
who knows how difficult
the kits are to produce.
When asked to describe
his last six months in one
sentence Dan's response
(after a lengthy pause)
was: "A challenge ... educational ... frustrating ... rewarding ... " and then he
disappeared back into his
office to produce another
Edukit before dawn.
What's this program all
about? Put yourself in the
shoes of a city fire department training officer who
may be searching for course material to train recruits in basic fire
fighting. Or perhaps you are responsible for fire safety in a large
mill, and want to train a brigade
in basic fire response. Then
again, picture yourself as a volunteer firefighter in a remote community. You have had some
orientation and training to the
role of fire fighting, but there is so
much more to learn. In your regular job, you work as a school
teacher, a nurse or perhaps a logger. One day an alarm is called
in: a major spill has occurred on
the highway that runs through
town. A truck carrying propane
gas has overturned and is leaking. You rush to the fire hall,
change into your protective gear
and climb on to the fire engine.
All the while, the thought is racing through your head, "How can
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we respond to this safely?" In all
these cases, an Edukit may be the
answer.
The fire service, whether responding to seemingly simple
dumpster fires or complex hazardous materials incidents, requires
a great deal of training. With
some 13,000 volunteer, career
and industrial fire departments
in the province, the need is vast
and seemingly endless. In many
cases, the expertise required to
train in many of these areas is
not present. And the funds are
not available to send fire service
personnel to the Fire Academy for
training.
It was because of this situation
that the Fire Academy began to
develop Edukits. The term refers
to training manuals that are used
by local fire training staff to provide lessons in the many aspects

of fire and other emergency response. The
Edukits are a simple,
packaged, easy-to-use
training guide, consisting of a videotape, model
lesson plans, overheads,
quizzes and practical
checklists. An entire fire
department or district
can be trained with one
Edukit. There are 19
Edukit subjects, ranging
from Dangerous Goods
to Ground Ladders, from
Electrical Safety to
Pumps and Pumping.
As students complete
each subject locally
using the Edukit, they receive practical evaluations and examinations
delivered locally by a re, gional Evaluator, who
; has been selected and
trained by the Fire Academy to conduct this type
of session. The Evaluators, whether members of paid,
volunteer or industrial fire departments, give their time to perform
the evaluations. As students succeed in each subject, they slowly
work their way to full certification as a volunteer firefighter.
The program has met with
great success, and has gained attention across North America and
abroad as a model to be envied.
The Edukits are a central compo"nent of the Fire Academy's sue. cess. Appreciation is due to all
those who have worked on the
project over the past years. The
fire community is fortunate to
have a person of Dan's calibre
handling the development, and
the Fire Academy is proud of his
excellent work.
Irwin DeVries is Deputy Director of the Fire Academy. 0

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JI offers life skills training for people
who work in residential settings
by Sandra Rice

The Justice Institute recently offered a new two-day workshop for
professionals working in residential and vocational settings. The
workshop is designed for participants who want to develop their
personal life skills in the areas of
self esteem, self assertion and
problem solving, before using
these skills to coach individuals
in their residence or vocational
programs.

The approach used is to have
participants examine and practise these skills within the workshop setting. After examining
their own skills, they identify
methods for coaching their clients
in each of the skill areas. Each
participant then designs a specific lesson plan for coaching individuals within the workplace
setting.
Evaluations of the first work-

shop were excellent and requests
from two agencies for in-house
training are presently being negotiated. Plans have also been
made to co-sponsor this course
with the College of the Upper Fraser Valley, Abbotsford Campus,
in May.
Sandra Rice is Co-ordinator of
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Police Academy co-hosts
international police symposium
The Police Academy recently cohosted an international police
symposium that attracted over
100 police chiefs from around the
world. Participants attending Policing in the Gl.obal Community:
The Challenge of Leadership,
came from countries as diverse as
Jordan, Taiwan, Belgium and
Australia.
Police Academy instructor
Steve Hess was one of the coordinators of the symposium.
He was instrumental in lining
up an impressive array of speak~
er~ that included George Schertz,
the police chief of Berlin, Daryl

Gates of the Los Angeles Police
Department, and John Boyd,
the chief investigator of the
Lockerbie air disaster in
Scotland. The speakers dealt
with a variety of executive development issues.
The symposium is a continuation of the Police Studies Series, a
joint venture of the Police Academy and Simon Fraser University. The seri,es is designed to
provide forums for line-level police officers and police administrators to examine critical issues
confronting policing in the 1990s
and beyond. 0

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