The

JI NEWS
February 1990

vol 2/#5

Hydro purchases 800 copies
of Fire Academy's new edukit

The JI News has
anew look
This issue of The JI News sports
a new look. Our masthead is an
adaption of the design that will
soon appear on the Jl's letterhead, envelopes, business cards,
and publications. The design has
already been printed on portfolios
that can be used for course and
conference materials; letterhead
will be printed next, followed by
envelopes and certificates. If you
would like a supply of portfolios
for your academy/division,
contact Bernie Astles or Paul
Harris. 0

Fire Academy Instructor Len Garis (/eh) and Media Centre Photo
Arts Technician Will Mah (right) show off the jacket Fire Academy
Director Smith presented to Wiii for his "special effort" during the
taping of the Electrical Safety for Fire Fighters video.

"Excellent ... clearly a public interest product ... (should receive) the
widest possible circulation."
These are some of the words Chief
Coroner J.V. Cain used to
describe Fire Academy's latest
edukit, Electrical Safety for Fire
Fighters, which was unveiled at a
special premiere on January 31.
Fire Academy Instructor Len
Garis was the co-ordinator and
producer of the edukit; the JI
Media Centre produced the video.
The big news of the day came
with BC Hydro's announcement

that it will help ensure that the
edukit gets the wide circulation
recommended by Chief Coroner
Cain. After the January 31
premiere, Hydro representative
Tony Lyttle not only thanked the
Academy for the production, he
announced that BC Hydro would
purchase one edukit for each fire
department, police departmentJdetachment and ambulance
station in the province. That
means that a total of 800 edukits
will be made available to the
continued on page 2

Corrections
conference looks
to the future
The B.C. Criminal Justice Association hosted a conference on March
6 for over 200 justice system
professionals. Although the
theme was The Future is Now:
Correctional Programs in the 90's,
a wide variety of topics were
covered. They included: the
Young Offenders Act, family
violence, native spirituality,
electronic monitoring, native justice, rights of the mentally ill,
female offender programming,
and violent offenders. John
Laverock, Director of Corrections
Academy was on the planning
committee for the conference. 0

Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division
Educational Services Division • Emergency Health Services Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

MLAs
Marzari
and
Perry
visit the JI
On February 2, Darlene Marzari
and Tom Perry, the two elected
MLAs for the Vancouver-Point
Grey riding, visited the Justice Institute to learn more about the
training programs and educational services we offer to people working in justice and public safety
throughout British Columbia.
Tom Perry has attended a number of courses and public meetings
at the Justice Institute, and as a
medical doctor he expressed great
inte.-est in the work being undertaken by Emergency Health Services Academy. Darlene Marzari
asked about many of the topics
covered through Extension
Programs as well as activities and
courses offered through other
academies.
After a discussion with Principal Larry Goble, the two MLAs
toured the campus, met some of
the staff, and then requested the
opportunity to come back to the JI
and spend more time with individual academy directors and
their staff.
Arrangements were made for
Darlene Marzari to visit Educational Services Division, Police
Academy and Corrections
Academy on February 26, and for
Dr. Tom Perry to visit Emergency
Health Services Academy, Fire
Academy and Provincial Emergency Program Academy on March 1.
They have also expressed interest in attending graduation
ceremonies and other special
events as our local MLAs in support of the work being carried out
by the Institute 0.

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BC Hydro Representative Tony Lyttle (left) with
Fire Academy Director Paul Smith.

Edukit ..• con't from page 1
three services through BC
Hydro's generous purchase.
In his letter commending the
Fire Academy on the electrical
safety edukit, Chief Coroner Cain
said:
"Oft-times I am asked what
happens to Coroners' and Juries'
recommendations. In my short
tenure as Chief Coroner, I can
frankly observe your response to
be the best to have crossed my
desk. It is excellent. The efforts
expended by the various

participants, and the lead taken
by the Fire Academy and the Justice Institute is commendable, indeed.
And I don't think this product
should be restricted to fire fighters
in British Columbia. It directly
affects all emergency services personnel, across this country; it is
clearly a public interest product.
I would hope, then, that it receives
the widest possible circulation ...
my congratulations on the excellence of this work." 0

Police Academy seconds staff from
serving police officers
Several JI academies use seconded staff, Police Academy among
them. So if you've wondered
about the frequent tum-over of
instru.:tional staff in Police Academy (see Spotlight, page 3),
there's a simple answer: the
Academy seconds much of its
staff from serving police officers.
They do this primarily because
seconded staff can offer both credibility based on current knowledge and recent operational
experience.
Since the inception of the Justice Institute 12 years ago, the
Police Academy has tried to maintain representation on staff from
as many municipal police depart-

ments as possible, with at least
one member from the RCMP to
help provide a broader perspective of policing in BC. The
Academy maintains an eligibility
list of about 30 police officers
who have applied for secondment
and have met the selection
criteria. Secondment is initially
for two years, with an option of a
third year with the mutual consent of both parties. In terms of
career development, assignment
to the Academy provides an
excellent opportunity to step outside the routine of daily patrol
duties and serve the larger police
community as a professional
instructor. 0

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•••SPOTLIGHT•••
On Staff
Changes ...
With the departure of Rick
Evans in March, Police Academy
will have completed what
amounts to a 50 per cent turnover in seconded staff within the
last six months. Steve Watt from
West Vancouver Police Department was the first of the new arrivals and -h e is now well
established, not only as Legal
Studies instructor, but as the person instrumental in initiating
five-a-side soccer at noon in the
gymnasium. Ed Illi was next on
the scene. Ed took over from
Don Walden in teaching general
investigation and patrol techniques.. Ed moved his wife and
young family over from Saanich
for his three year secondment.
Next, Mark Johnstone arrived
from Vancouver Police Department to replace Darrell Kean in
human relations training. He
was followed by Tim Lancaster
from New Westminster as the
second legal studies instructor.
When teamed with Gil Puder,
the most recent secondee, who
was brought in to replace Rick
Evans, Blake Hall should have
the nucleus of an unbeatable basketball te~m. Look to your
laurels, Lawrence Hall!!
Extension Programs has also
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seen some changes over the past
few weeks. Cindy Teather has
joined the EP staff for a six
month term appointment. She
takes over as office assistant
while Bev Karakochuk is on
maternity leave. Cindy comes to
the JI from Colliers Macaulay
Nicolls Inc. She has also worked
in the restaurant industry where
her last job was with the Cannery. Kendra McEown has also
joined the staff of Extension .
Programs where she will assist
Marje Burdine, part time, in
Conflict Resolution Training.
Kendra attended the universities
of Toronto, Queens and Minnesota. She has worked as a
teacher, freelance copy editor, features writer, TV producer,
actress, and as manager of the
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical
Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
Emergency Health Services
Academy has announced the appointment of Gina Charlewood
to the position oflnstructor/Co-ordinator for the Infant Transport
Team Program. Gina's position is
a joint appointment with
Children's Hospital and the Justice Institute. She brings with
her ten years of experience working with critically ill babies as
well as clinical teaching experiences gained from instructing in
BCIT's special care nursery program. She is enthusiastic and
dedicated in promoting excellence
in patient care. EHSA reports
that Gina is a v~ry active person
with a bubbly personality and '
that they've heard rumours that
she enjoys a good joke.

Conferences ...
Dean of Educational Services
Pat Ross and PTEC Director Al
Lund represented PTEC at the
first national Driving Into the
90's conference in Ottawa on
February 14-16. The conference
was organized by the Automobile
Journalists Association of
Canada to look at driver training,

education and testing in Canada.
PTEC was asked to present on
the topics of Developing an Advanced Driver Training Centre
and Hazard Avoidance Training.
Two signals of PTEC's leading
role: (1) two other provinces are
attempting to get driver training
centres organized, but BC is the
only province in Canada with this
type of program already in place;
and (2) the conference sponsors
approached PTEC to consider cohosting the next national conference in BC in 1991.

Recognition ...
Marje Burdine, Co-ordinator
of Conflict Resolution Training in
Extension Programs, has been invited to participate in discussions
surrounding the formation of a
dispute resolution advisory council. If established, the advisory
council could serve as a medium
to co-ordinate developments in
the dispute resolution field and
provide advice and consultation
to policy makers and funders.
Shelley Rivkin has been invited by Health and Welfare
Canada to Ottawa in March to
participate in a consultation on
post employment training for
human service professionals.
Shelley is Co-ordinator of Justice,
Family and Agency Programs in
Extension Programs. 0

Next
deadline
for
submissions
to the
JI News
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IS

March

15

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JI markets its programs, products
and services

In a time of continued
fiscal restraint and
rising costs, it has been
increasingly difficult for
the Justice Institute to
obtain the capital and
developmental monies
necessary to maintain
the quantity and quality
of its activities. These
activities, from a
marketing perspective,
are the JI's programs,
products and services
which have been developed for specific client
groups within BC. It is
these same activities
which account for the
Institute's growing reputation with justice and
public safety agencies in different
jurisdictions outside BC.
Based on these factors, the Justice Institute initiated a marketing program with two objectives:
• to generate revenue from the
sale of educational products
and materials developed and
owned by the Justice Institute;
and
• to increase market awareness
of the Justice Institute and its
educational products.
The Institute chose to contract
the services of an external
marketing agent for sales outside
of BC and after a bidding process
selected the Open Leaming Agency (0 LA).
OLA does not require any
working capital from the JI for
the purposes of marketing. OLA
is responsible for the costs of
reproduction of materials, advertising on an international basis,
and distribution. The first major

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Academy's Edukit series, Emergency Health
Services Academy's
EMA training booklets
and continuing education modules, the Per-

formance, Planning
and Review videotape

advertising occurred in the past
three months, and a wide range
of products have already been
sold. In the past two weeks,
10 000 brochures have been
mailed to ambulance and emergency health personnel and fire
departments throughout North
America, and we are anticipating
a strong level of response.
Examples of existing products
being marketed include: the Fire

produced by Corrections and Courts, and
the Peace Officers
Physical Abilities Test
Developed by the Police
Academy.
Most JI products
have been developed to
serve the needs of the
Institute's client
groups. In any contracts with the marketing agent, the JI
reserves the right to determine
which products may be marketed,
and consults with the client
groups regarding the selection.
Further, it is clear that if
modifications are required to an
existing product in order to make
it ready for marketing, these.
costs will not be borne by the
academies at the JI, but by funds
generated through marketing endeavours. CJ

Library recycling with imagination!
The library is sending old metal film cans, microfiche, paper,
styrofoam chips,and old binders
to the Imagination Market. The
Imagination Market is a nonprofit arts and recycling association that teaches children about
recycling by giving workshops on
making art from recycled

materials. They sell the workshop
materials in their store, as well as
some of the art they've created.
If you have material that you
think the Imagination Market
might want, give Sherry a call at
253-1033. She'll let you know if
they can use your recyclables, and
will arrange for pick-up. CJ

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In the next several issues of The
JI News we'll profile members of
the Board of Directors. Last May
we introduced new board member
Donald J. Pamplin; in this issue
we introduce you to board member Mary E. Saunders.
Mary E. Saunders, Q.C., has
an LL B from the University of
British Columbia, was admitted
to the bar in 1975, and is now a
partner with Campney and Murphy where she specializes in
labour and school law. Since her
appointment to the Board of
Directors of the Justice Institute
in February 1984, Ms. Saunders
has served on the Programs Committee and the Personnel and
Labour Relations Committee.
She now chairs the latter.
Ms. Saunders' interests cover a
wide range of topics, and in spite
of her busy law practice she still
manages to participate in a
variety of organizations and activities. In addition to her position as a board member of the
Justice Institute, she has co-ordinated programs for continuing

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legal education and served as a
member of two royal commissions. She is currently a member
of the Premier's Advisory Council
on Native Affairs as well as a
member of the BC Police Commission, where she has served as Acting Complaint Commissioner
since July 1989. Ms. Saunders is
also on the Executive of the BC
Labour Law Subsection of the
Canadian Bar Association.
Helping new musicians train

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and find employment is also an
area that interests Ms. Saunders
and in this capacity she also currently serves as the Governor and
Secretary of the Victoria International Festival and is associated
with the Johannesen International School of the Arts.
As a Board member, Ms.
Saunders says she is most proud
of"the quality of training
provided to the community,
which is done by our excellent
staff ... the selection of our principal, the support from government that we all work hard at,
and what I pe:rceive to be the
good morale of the Justice Institute staff. n
When asked what she would
like to accomplish in her next
term on the board, Ms. Saunders
replied: "In the next year I hope
the Board will be able to further
strengthen the Justice Institute
by encouraging new initiatives of
the staff, at the same time maintaining the present successful
programs, and to secure permanent facilities for the Justice
Institute." 0

JI volunteers helping to
organize special olympics torch run
The Chair of JI's Board, Chief
Constable R.J. Stewart, Police
Academy Director Phil
Crosby-Jones, and Corrections
Academy Director John Laverock
are among the hundreds of
volunteers working to make this
year's Law Enforcement Torch
Run for the Canadian Special
Olympics a success. Chief Constable Stewart is co-chairing the
1990 Torch Run with RCMP
Deputy Commissioner Don Wilson, while Phil Crosby-Jones is
Director of the run for the province of BC, and John Laverock
represents corrections staff and
sheriffs as a member of the Law

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Enforcement Torch Run Committee.
The 1990 Canadian Special
Olympics national summer games
are scheduled to be held in Vancouver from July 10-15. They will
bring more than 800 competitors
and 200 coaches from all ten
provinces and the two northern
territories together to compete in
seven sports.
The torch run that will end at
BC Place stadium as part of the
opening ceremonies, will start at
Olympic Plaza in Calgary on June
30. Twenty-four long distance
runners will carry the special
olympics torch nearly 1300

kilometres from Calgary to Vancouver during the two weeks leading up to the summer games
ceremonies on July 11. As many
as 1000 law enforcement officers
from BC, Alberta and elsewhere
in Canada are also expected to
participate by running with the
core group as they carry the torch
through each community. Funds
raised primarily through the
sponsorship oflocal runners will
be used to help stage the special
olympics summer games.
For more information on the
torch run, or to make a donation
to the special olympics, contact
Phil Crosby-Jones (local 272). 0

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Conflict resolution program has wide appeal
Conflict resolution has become a
theme for the '90s and the Justice
Institute is leading the way in
the training field with its Centre
for Conflict Resolution Training.
The core of the Centre's training,
offered through Extension
Programs, is a 210-hour certificate program which is the only
one of its kind in North America.
It is regarded as a model for the
development of other institutes
and associations.
The Centre runs over 100 inhouse courses annually, totalling
approximately 6000 student training days. The cost of the program is about $2300 per student.
In addition to its in-house courses, the Centre offers contract
courses for a variety of groups
and organizations, including: BC
Tel, BC Hydro, BC Transit, MacMillan Bloedel, Ministry of the
Environment, the SPCA,
Worker's Compensation Board,
Union ;>fBC Indian Chiefs,

Marje Burdine, Co-ordinator of the Centre
for Conflict Resolution Training

Yukon Territorial Land Claims
Department, Yukon College, Red
Deer College, Ontario Association
of Family Mediators, Family and
Conciliation Courts of New
Brunswick, BC Provincial Court
judges, and the Municipalities of
Richmond, Langley and Surrey.
Within the Justice Institute,

the Centre for Conflict Resolution
provides training for Court Services in defusing hostility and is
collaborating with Corrections
Academy in developing advanced
level training. The Centre also offers specialized courses on such
topics as divorce mediation, organizational and cross-cultural
conflict resolution, group mediation and anger with youth. Future growth areas include the
tourism industry, environmental
issues, managerial mediation,
and parent-teen conflicts.
The program is under the
direction of Co-ordinator Marje
Burdine and Program Planners
Marg Huber and Kendra McEown and involves over 20
trainers with backgrounds in
psychology, law, adult education
and busiriess. The Centre's staff
have been invited to present seminars and lectures at many national conferences in both Canada
and the United States. D

Three academies screen auto
extrication video
In an emergency it's easy to
assemble representatives
from police,
fire and ambulance services -- just
dial 911. But
to assemble
the academies
for each·of
these services
for joint training purposes requires a special commitment. That
commitment was evident at the
JI on February 24, when Police
Academy invited Fire and Emergency Health Services Academies
to participate in a joint training
session for a group of 180 police
auxiliaries. As part of the session, an auto extrication video

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that had been
filmed at the
JIBC site on
February 13
was screened.
All three
academies
g hadpar~ ticipated in
~ tapingthe
video .
...,,,,,.!!11 .c~ For their
_ _ _ _ _ __ J a . help with the
video and joint training session,
appreciation is due to: Tony
Needham, Mark Johnstone, Gil
Puder (Police Academy); Bob Norman and Peter Marochi (EHSA);
Keith Boswell, John Lysholm,
Chris Bromley and Al McLeod
(Fire Academy); and Carol McGuire, Bob Walker and Will Mah
(Media Centre). D

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