Police Department inspector on-the-rise, fully occupied with his early-’70s
assignment from Chief John Fisk to revitalize the VPD’s training system
through the Vancouver Police Training Academy. In 1975, Stewart was
instrumental in forming the province-wide B.C. Police College, which
became a founding Division at the Justice Institute as the Police Academy.

Yet another 1974 arrival was GERRy Kitcup, head of the security
program at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, who was head-
hunted to become Principal of Bob Stewart's new police college. Kilcup was
unique among the parents of the JIBC in that he had experience both as a
police officer and as an educator. Naturally, Kilcup thought of his move to
Vancouver as an opportunity to upgrade professional police training. He
was right about the impact he could have here. One of those quick wits who
know their stuff and are enjoyable to work with, Kilcup would become an
ideal founding Principal of the Justice Institute.

Before that, in a prescient April 1976 memo he addressed to David
Vickers, Kilcup articulated the vision for what was then to be called the
“Justice Education Centre.” In it, he wrote of a “growing awareness of
a need to coordinate and integrate the delivery of training and educa-
tional programs within the criminal justice system and to provide a central
resource for the identification and coordination of learning resources
within all other Provincial Educational Institutions relevant to justice
training.’ Such centralization would help overcome what was perceived to
be the “fragmentation and isolation” of education and training within the
present system and would “facilitate the maximum use of resources and at

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Gerry Kilcup, the first
Director of the B.C.
Police College, wrate a
prcphetic blueprint about
the Justice Institute in
19765 for the Attorney-
Ganeral’s cepartment
before he becanic trie
founding Principal isvo
years iater. He continued
in his activist role until
1986.

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