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IN MEMORIAM Chaplain RogerMcCombe, Ingersoll Police Service, ON Corporal Jim Galloway, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Edmonton PRAYERS Chaplain Doug Aikman, Niagara Regional, recovering from cancer surgery. Chaplain Jim Turner, our Sect/Treas, and family. Jim’s son Josh, age 23, was killed in a single vehicle crash Dec. 12th. VOS REPRESENTANTS - EXECUTIF / EXECUTIVE Président
, 657 Reaume Road, LaSalle, ON, N9J 1B5 1er Vice-président
, 7 Brookhouse Road, Dartmouth, NS, B2W 1W5 2ieme Vice-président
, 2161 Winnipeg St., Regina, SK, S4P 1G9 Secretary/Treasurer
, 4653 63rd St., Delta, BC, V5Z 3B2 Membership
, 1732 10th St. East, Courtenay, BC, V9N 7H7 Past President
, 666 Glenhurst Cres., Gloucester, ON, K1J 7B7 THE PRESIDENT’S THOUGHTS As we enter into 2004 the Canadian Police Chaplain Association continues to provide for Police Chaplains across the country. It is hard to realize that 10 years ago we did not exist. We have come a long way from an idea of a bunch of chaplains in Ontario in the early eighties to form the Ontario Police Chaplains Association and then the present CPCA. We have now reached a point where we can provide for chaplains in many areas. Our greatest strength is our training through the annual ATS held yearly across our country. The upcoming one north of Toronto looks to provide excellent opportunities to upgrade our skills. To ensure that we have a continuum that meets the needs for certification the executive was directed to investigate and set up an ATS planning committee. If you have ideas about this or would be interested in being part of it, please contact me. As we grow it is important that we maintain contact and to do this your executive is finalizing the Provincial Representation program. Here again you can give us your feedback. If you want to see this proposal, I would be glad to send it to you. It has been suggested that we develop Chaplain’s Handbook. This would be an excellent tool to have. This we can do by looking at what is available. If you have a Handbook or know where there is one, contact Charlie Massey. With your help we can put this together. The cost to each member would be only to cover the cost of producing it. This year is an election year and there will be openings on the executive. I encourage you to consider this. It is not time consuming as we do most of our work by email and conference calls. Your input is always welcome. Over the last two years we have being discussing our relation with the International Conference of Police Chaplains. They offer many things for those who wish to take part in them at their annual training-this year in St. Louis. I personally see our relationship to be that of co-partners. It would be nice to have a liaison person to ICPC so we continue to share ideas and training. Our certification is accepted by them, as is our training. We accept their training and certification. I realize that what I am doing is asking for input from you the members. The CPCA in only as strong as it members make it to be.Your executive needs your ideas and suggestions. My e-mail is stanfras@windsor.igs.net WE can continue to grow but we need to take the team approach and work to get new members, maintain contact with each other, and let others know the work we do for policing in Canada. Take care, stay safe. Stan Fraser Les pensées du président Alors que nous entrons dans l'année 2004, l'Association Canadienne des Aumôniers de Police continue à assister ses membres d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Il nous semble difficile de penser qu'il y a dix ans cette association n'existait pas. Nous avons parcouru un long chemin depuis l'idée de départ émise par un groupe d'aumôniers d'Ontario dans les années 80, de former une association des aumôniers de police d'Ontario et, eventuellement, notre présente association. Nous sommes maintenant rendus à pouvoir assister les aumôniers dans de nombreux domaines. Notre plus grande force vient des sessions de formation annuelles, tenues d'un bout à l'autre de notre pays. La prochaine, qui sera tenue au nord de Toronto, veut nous fournir une excellente chance de peaufiner nos connaissances. Afin d'assurer la permanence des critères qui répondent à un agrément, le comité exécutif a mis sur pied un comité de planification des séminaires de formation. Si vous avez des suggestions à apporter ou si vous êtes intéressé (e) à en faire partie, veuillez me contacter. Au fur et à mesure que notre association grandit, il est important de rester en lien et pour y arriver, votre comité exécutif va finaliser le projet du programme de représentation provinciale. Vous suggestions sont les bienvenues également sur ce point et si vous désirez une copie de cette proposition, je me ferai un plaisir de vous en faire parvenir une. Il a été suggéré de créer un Manuel d'Aumônier. Ce serait un excellent outil de travail. Nous pouvons voir ce qui est déjà disponible. Si vous en avez déjà un ou en connaissez l'existence, contactez Charlie Massey. Avec votre aide, nous pouvons réaliser ce projet. Le coût individuel ne serait que celui de la production. Cette année est une année d'élections et des postes seront ouverts sur le comité exécutif. Je vous encourage à y songer. Ça ne nécessite pas énormément de temps puisque nous faisons le gros de notre travail par courriel ou conférences téléphoniques. Votre son de cloche est toujours le bienvenu. Depuis les deux dernières années, nous avons discuté de notre lien avec la Conférence Internationale des Aumôniers de Police. La conférence offre beaucoup de choses intéressantes pour ceux et celles qui aimeraient participer à leur séminaire de formation de cette année à St-Louis. Je vois notre lien comme celui de copartenaires. Il serait intéressant d'avoir un porte-parole à l'ICPC afin de poursuivre l'échange d'idées et la formation. Notre agrément est reconnu par leur groupe, tout comme nos sessions de formation. De même, nous acceptons les leurs. Je comprends bien que je m'impose la tâche de vous demander votre collaboration dans les retours d'idées. Notre association ne peut être forte que dans la mesure où ses membres la soutiennent par leur implication personnelle. Votre comité exécutif a besoin de vos idées et de vos suggestions. Mon adresse courriel est : stanfras@windsor.igs.net Nous pouvons continuer à grandir, mais nous avons besoin d'une vision d'équipe et d'un travail d'équipe pour accroître le nombre de nos membres, pour garder contact les uns avec les autres et mieux faire connaître le bon travail que nous accomplissons en tant qu'aumôniers de police au Canada. Prenez bien soin de vous et restez prudents. A JUDGE’S ADVICE Always we hear the plaintive cry of teenagers, “What can we do? Where can we go? The answer is, “Go home!” Hang the storm windows. Paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves. Mow the lawn. Sweep the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook. Scrub the floors. Repair the sink. Build a boat. Get a job. Help your minister, priest, or rabbi, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army. Visit the sick, assist the poor, study your lessons. And when you are through, and not too tired, read a book. Your parents do not owe you entertainment. Your city or village does not owe you recreational facilities. The world does not owe you a living. But you owe the world something. You owe it your time and energy and your talents, so that no one will be at war, or in poverty, or be sick or lonely. In plain, simple words, grow up! Quit being a cry-baby. Get out of your dream world, and develop a backbone, and start acting like a man (or a woman). You are supposed to be mature enough to accept some of the responsibility your parents have carried for you for years. They have nursed, protected, excused, and tolerated you, and have denied themselves needed comforts so that you might have every benefit. They have done this gladly, for you are their dearest treasure. But now, you have no right to expect them to bow to every whim and fancy of yours just because selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality, thinking, and requests. In Heaven’s name, grow up and go home! (Contributed by Chaplain Dave Malsch, Superior P.D.) A DOCTOR’S ADVICE A friend of mine was sitting on her lawn sunning and reading when she was startled by a fairly new-model car crashing through her hedge and coming to rest on her lawn. She rushed over and helped the elderly driver out and sat him on a lawn chair. “my goodness!” she exclaimed. “You seem quite old to be driving.” “Yes,” he replied, “I’m old enough that I don’t need a license.” “How did this come about?” my friend asked. “The last time I went to my doctor, he examined me. Then he asked if I still had a driver’s license. I told him, ‘Yes,’ and handed it to him. He took some scissors out of a drawer and cut it up and threw it into the wastebasket. ‘You won’t be needing this anymore,’ he said. “I thanked him and left.” Submitted to STITCHES magazine September 2001, by Dr. J. R. Stratton of Victoria. Used by permission of the publisher Peter Cocker. "COMPETITION IS THE BATTLE IN WHICH INCOMPETENCE LOSES" Les conseils d'un juge Nous entendons souvent la plainte des adolescents : « Que pouvons-nous faire ? Où pouvons-nous aller ? » La réponse est simple : « Rentrez chez vous ! » Posez les contre-fenêtres. Peinturez les boiseries. Ramassez les feuilles mortes. Tondez le gazon. Balayez les dalles d'entrée. Lavez l'automobile. Apprenez à faire la cuisine. Réparez l'évier. Construisez un bateau. Cherchez-vous un emploi. Aidez votre ministre du culte, votre prêtre, votre rabbin. Assistez la Croix-Rouge, l'Armée du Salut. Visitez les malades, venez en aide aux pauvres, étudiez, faites vos devoirs. Et quand vous aurez terminé tout ça et que vous n'êtes pas trop fatigués, lisez un livre. Vos parents n'ont pas à vous amuser continuellement. Votre ville ou votre village ne doit pas nécessairement vous offrir des lieux de récréation. Le monde ne vous doit strictement rien. Mais vous, vous devez quelque chose au monde. Vous lui devez votre temps, votre énergie et vos talents, de sorte que personne ne soit en guerre, ne souffre de pauvreté, ne soit relégué à la solitude ou à la maladie sans soutien. En termes clairs et simples, «vieillissez ! Cessez d'être des pleurnichards. Sortez de votre monde de rêve, ayez un peu de colonne vertébrale et commencez à agir comme un homme ou une femme. » Vous êtes sensés être assez matures pour prendre à votre tour une part des responsabilités que vos parents ont portées à votre place durant des années. Ils vous ont nourris, soignés, protégés, excusés et tolérés et se sont souvent privés de gâteries et de confort pour vous assurer de tout ce qui était en leur pouvoir. Ils l'ont fait avec joie, puisque vous êtes ce qui leur est le plus cher au monde. Mais maintenant, vous n'avez nullement le droit de vous attendre à ce qu'ils se plient à vos moindres caprices et à vos fantaisies parce que votre égoïsme, plutôt que votre bon sens, vous fait agir, dicte vos réflexions et fait surgir vos demandes. Pour l'amour du Ciel, vieillissez et rentrez chez vous ! Les conseils d'un médecin Une de mes amies était assise sur sa pelouse en train de prendre un bain de soleil en lisant, lorsqu'elle fut ébranlée par l'apparition d'une voiture de modèle récent qui venait de franchir sa haie et s'était immobilisée sur son terrain. Elle se précipita pour aider le chauffeur âgé et l'asseoir sur une chaise de jardin. « Mon Dieu ! » lui dit-elle « vous semblez bien âgé pour conduire ? » « Oui ! » lui répondit-il « je suis assez vieux pour ne plus avoir besoin de permis. » « Comment ceci vous est-il arrivé ? » Lui demanda-t-elle. « La dernière fois que je suis allé voir mon médecin, il m'a examiné. Il m'a demandé si j'avais encore un permis de conduire. Je lui ai dit « oui » et je le lui ai remis. Il a pris une paire de ciseaux et l'a découpé avant de le jeter au panier. « Vous n'aurez plus besoin de ceci » me dit-il. » « Je l'ai remercié et je suis parti. » (Extrait du magazine STITCHES de septembre 2001 Soumis par le Docteur J.R. Stratton de Victoria. Utilisé avec la permission de l'éditeur Peter Cocker. "La compétition est le combat où l'incompétence perd la partie" POLICE HARASSMENT Recently, California ran an e-mail forum with the topic being "Community Policing." One of the civilian e-mail participants posed the following question: "I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?" From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) a cool cop with a sense of humor replied: "It is not easy. In California we average one cop for every 2000 people. About 60% are on duty at any moment and available for harassing people. So, one cop is responsible for harassing about 10,000 residents. When you toss in the commercial, business, and tourist locations that attract people from other area, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 20,000 or more people a day. A ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds. This gives a cop one-second to harass a person, and three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. Most cops are not up to it day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those, which we harass. They are as follows: PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. We have a special number set up just for that... 911. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase we use. Then we come out and give special harassment. Another popular one on a weeknight is, "The kids next door are having a party." CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars blasting music, cars with expired registration and the like. It is lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, are drunk, or have a warrant. RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours. CODES: When you can think of nothing else to do, there are books that give ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Codes": Penal, Vehicle, Health and Safety, Business and Professions... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the code, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week, I saw a guy smash a car window. Well, the code says that is not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a pretty cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well. I seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because the good citizens who pay the tab like that we keep the streets safe for them. Next time you are in my town, give me a single finger wave. That is a signal that you wish for me to take a little closer look at you, and maybe I'll find a reason to harass YOU. PS: My own personal wish. As a police officer, may I wish each and every one of you a very happy holiday season. I am not looking for anyone to harass. I just want to make it home after my shift so I may enjoy the holiday with my family. I wish the same for you. Troop 13 Graduation Chapel Service Members of Troop 13 you have chosen an interesting time to become a police officer. Interesting time is really an understatement. What have we been hearing in the press? It seems nothing but one report or another concerning police officers doing bad things. We, the RCMP, can’t point to other organizations and say tut, tut. If we do we need only remember as you point one finger at some one else there are three of your own fingers pointing at you. Sadly, I have accumulated a number of press clippings over the years detailing the failings of members of our Force. Recall 13 that the first time I met you I catalogued a number of those events: thefts, sexual assaults, corruption etc. A press report on Thursday detailed how members of our Force were assembled from across Canada in Ontario to conduct an investigation which likely will lead them to one of our own members. What is it that makes a cop go bad? Why do people, who have sworn to uphold the law, end up breaking the law? I continue to be surprised here at our Academy when we encounter Cadets who lie, cheat in exams, cheat on spouses, drink to excess every weekend and so on. Why did they come here? Why do they think they are above the standard of practise all Cadets are expected to meet? You, 13, know the ones of whom I speak. They were the those who had to respond to the Training Officers single question. Will that be isle, or window? They have embarked on the pursuits of careers which do not involve police work. Why bad cops? The first words which come to my mind include: greed, laziness, selfishness, egotist, lying, embellishment, drugs, sex, alcohol, gambling. The journey to being a bad cop begins ever so slowly, until it builds to a crescendo. A report is fudged, just to save time. Money troubles mount as credit limits are exceeded. To convict a dead beat, evidence is enhanced. Little white lies get bigger and bigger. Some lies are to spouses, co-workers, superiors, clients. Too much booze leads to a stolen kiss, then another, and then adultery. Children are bribed, “Don’t tell.” A favour is asked, in return, a favour must be granted. Pretty soon a whole range of problems become consuming. Money is taken, pardon me, borrowed. A bad cop is born. Why are there bad cops?. Shouldn’t all our members and employees understand our Force prides itself with a value system? A value system which is the core of our functioning and operations. Integrity, Honesty, Professionalism, Compassion, Respect, Accountability. Sadly, there are many members and employees who can readily mouth those words but they have not inculcated them into their personal lives, their personal value system. Troop 13. What are your values, your own personal values? Have you named them to yourself? Better yet, have you written them down for your own two eyes to see? If not, why not? What are your very own, personal values? A tough question I admit. But a question which needs to be asked as you embark on a career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If you can’t name the values by which your life is guided you have no values. If you have none, then you stand the likely potential of becoming a bad cop. I have been around Mounted police officers, active and retired, constantly for forty years. I know more Mounted police officers then you are likely to meet in your career. I’ve met Mounties who did not posses a value system. I’ve met Mounties who turned into bad cops. I can say though, I Thank God, those who became bad cops are a minority. However, as you are soon to learn, one bad cop reflects negatively, on every police officer. Values are not passive entities, they are active, alive, functioning, and demonstrable. Values are observed in action. They are seen in you in all facets of your life, not just as a professional police officer. They emit, they radiate, they glow, they are seen, they are heard, they are observed, in all you think, say or do, 24/7/12. Every hour of the day. Every day of the week. Every month of the year. Every year of your life. Where do you get these values? Sure your parents instilled some which carried you through your youth. However, you have a clear responsibility to create and develop your own values. I can assure you one cannot assimilate values, you can’t get them by osmosis. You have to seek them, before you can name them. The bed rock for mining values is a functioning, current, viable belief system. It can’t be passive, it must be operative. Troop 13, is your belief system up and running? Has the most current operating system been down loaded into your life? Do you have the most up to date spam blocker installed? If you do you will be, forever, a good cop, because you will continuously display: Integrity; Honesty; Professionalism; Compassion; Respect and Accountability. Allan Higgs, Chaplain THE LIGHTER SIDE THE PARKING TICKETS I went to get something from the store the other day. I was only there for about five minutes and when I came out an office was writing a parking ticket. So I went up to him and said, "Come on buddy, how about giving a fella a break?" He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. So I called him a no good pencil necked idiot. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for bald tires!! So I called him a horses' butt. He finished the second ticket and put it on the car with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket!! This went on for about 20 minutes, the more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. I didn't care, my car was parked around the corner.... Taken from The Independent A New Zealander who was seen careening down a road while standing half-naked on a motorized bar-stool, with flames coming out of a rolled up newspaper held between his buttocks, has appeared in court. He pled guilty to being in charge of an unlicensed motor vehicle. True Story A MAN walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the drawer. Apparently the take was too small, so he tied up the clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours. The clerk finally freed himself and called police who showed up and grabbed him. Police Department Answering Machine Hello, you have reached the local police department voice mail. Pay close attention as we have to update the choices quite often as new and unusual circumstances arise. Please select one of the following options: To whine about us not doing anything to solve a problem that you created yourself, press 1 To inquire as to whether someone has to die before we'll do something about your problem, press 2 To report an officer for bad manners, when in reality you swore and took a swing at him, press 3 If you would like us to continue to raise your children, press 4 If you would like us to take control of your life due to your chemical or alcohol dependency, press 5 If you would like us to instantly restore order to a situation that took years to deteriorate, press 6 To provide a list of officers you know personally so that we will not take enforcement action against you, press 7 To sue us, or to tell us that you pay our salary and that you'll have our badge, or to proclaim that our careers are over, press 8 To whine about a ticket or complain about the many other uses for the police rather than keeping your dumb butt out of trouble and in line, press 9 PLEASE NOTE YOUR CALL MAY BE MONITORED TO ASSURE PROPER CUSTOMER SUPPORT AND REMEMBER... WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELF. ALSO REMEMBER THAT EXTREMELY POOR AND BAD PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON OUR PART. Thanks for calling your local police department and have a nice day Strutting into a police station one night, a man
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