Dec 07 2009
In school…
Ok, I’m nipple deep in learning. Spending time learning things that sound like sep-ted, numerous provincial acts, and assorted other things related to the job.
I’m not complaining really. It’s just that between my brief foray into cable installations and the new “new” job I feel like I’ve spent half a year training, rather than working…
It only feels that way because it’s true.
The good news is that it seems to be going well, thus far at least.
I teach CPTED in my course and still don’t think much of it. 20 years ago it had some benefit; now nobody cares who owns the property or if anyone’s watching them. Zero social or judicial deterrent.
You really know how to get me going - just post something about the warm and fuzzy ’sciences’ relating to the security biz and I start frothing at the mouth!
CM: I agree. I think you were the first one to bring CPTED to my attention some time ago and I gave it some reading back then, I recall thinking that the better portion of the concepts could be summarized as common sense, but then what do I know.
-GRIN-
I don’t think I really have an opinion to voice on this until I see the end of the course, but generally speaking that portion wasn’t the highlight of the training.
Hmmm … that reminds me … I should reread Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities to see how it holds up after 50 years.
I just want to know if you bring your lunch to class in an A-Team lunch box,
that’d be funny as hell.
I swear to Dog, I will buy you your weight in beer if you ask the following to your course instructor on the topic of provincial offence acts:
“In light of the impact that the BCMVA s.94(2) Reference case to the Supreme Court on the creation of absolute liability offences and their correlation to s.7 fundamental justice issues on the potential for jail time for those absolute liability offences, should we be crafting our reports to reflect an evidentiary standard of absolute or strict liability? Or is more simply a case that because it all comes down to a talent contest between Crown and their defence lawyer, I could write my entire notes and report as ‘I like potato chips’ and stand as much chance of getting a conviction as if I laid out a high quality report that would pass muster for 1st degree murder?”
You might want to wait until after probation to ask that, however.
I’m running my first provincial offences beef in January, 8 counts, gun offences included, heavy forensic focus in the evidence. The poor POO is about to run into a brick wall of legendary proportions.