Court Services program for sheriffs, court clerks and court administrators.
Stewart, who was appointed the JIBC’s Chair (and in 1981 became Vancou-
ver’s Chief Constable), says, “We set these groups in various pods with the
ability to interrelate?”

Gerry Kilcup, by now the Institute’s Principal, was succeeded briefly
at the Police Academy by David Athans, a former police officer who had
been the Police College’s Program Coordinator. He had an instruction and
administrative staff of twenty-five. The JIBC’s annual report for 1978-79
described new courses in handling the twenty-six-inch baton for general
patrol use, a cardiopulmonary resuscitation course, individualized physi-
cal-fitness programs, intensive accident investigation and a general investi-
gation program for experienced officers transferring from uniformed patrol
to plainclothes.

John Post, a former inspector with the Saanich police force whod
developed a criminal justice program at Camosun College in Victoria,
followed Athans from 1979 to 1983. In 1980, the province's policing
community fine-tuned and solidified the training rules first formulated by
Stewart. As Post reported, “the police career moved closer to profession-
alism through the rules that provide for minimum training standards as a
pre-requisite to continued employment as a municipal constable.”

The Police Academy was at the heart of training—well beyond
minimum standards—under a succession of directors. Bob Hull, a former
Mountie, became Acting Director in 1982-83 and then the Director in 1995.
In between Post and Hull was an import from the Calgary police-training
program at a community college, the well-qualified Philip Crosby-Jones.
Stewart knew him from his own Police Association days and welcomed
Crosby-Jones’ time at the Academy’s helm (1983-1995). In his latter years,
he launched a problem-oriented, case-study policing model—with simula-
tion exercises and a week-long community work assignment—as well as
developed a basic private security course. Under Steve Watt (1997-2006),
the Academy was reaching out to the rest of the world. Stuart Leishman,
the editor of The Thin Blue Line, published for the B.C. Federation of Police
Officers, reported at the time that “B.C’s police officers that are seconded to
the Justice Institute now provide advanced training to a number of police
forces around the world by travelling to such countries as the United Arab
Emirates, China and Singapore. They train local officers in a variety of
subjects including a twelve-week High Commanders’ Course and opera-
tional courses such as Drugs, Organized Crime, Polygraph and Inter-
viewing Techniques, Cyber Crime and Police Family Violence.” These were
the kind of innovative courses now being taught to officers training at the
Institute's new home in New Westminster.

The Thin Blue Line, reflecting the feeling of police in the province,
notes “the world-class educational facility that the Justice Institute’s Police

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up and down stairs, carry a bag of about fifty
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to put cold water on it.

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police were concerned because | think that was
a turning point for me. The police really opened
up to me as | travelled around the province and
talked to them and rode in police cars with them
to find what the nature of their job was.

“| can't say enough good things about the
Justice Institute, and what it’s done not only for
policing but also tor the criminal justice system.
By making the police more responsible, more
professional and more accountable, the Institute
serves the whole system—not only the policing
system but the public—and also lends the whole
system credibility. If you go out to the JI, you'll
notice how many people from other countries
are there, from other jurisdictions, and they do
that for a very good reason because the Justice
institute has acquired a worldwide reputation for
excellence that’s well earned and well deserved.

“As far receiving the J!’s Anthony P, Pantag-
es award [for an outstanding contribution to the
field of justice in B.C.], I'm proud of that because
of the reputation of the institution. I've received a
number of awards over the years, but | rank that
being the verv best, the one I'm most proud of."

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