Thanks for the extra 30 officers you’re planning to give to our Jail. It would have been really nice if you hired them last January when the competition was originally posted and they were needed. Instead you let all of your management and trainers go on vacation for the Summer and left the officers you have now severely understaffed in a dangerous environment and forced us to work 65+ hours a week. As a result, some young officers have seen more in 3 months than others have seen in their entire career. You’ll starve these poor new officers for hours and half will be gone by next summer, as always.
And as for the improved training, stop making us look like we’re stupid hicks. There’s nobody in CNSCF that doesn’t exceed the training standards for any correctional facility in Canada; in fact more of us have degrees than your managers.
This week was the first time in 3 months any manager has actually come into the secure core of the building… and the inmates were all locked up. That barely gives one an idea of the day to day experience of front line staff. Your whole approach to the safety of my coworkers is disrespectful. —Searching careerbeacon
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2010.
It sounds like the OB is an employee of the Correctional Department. I guess someone hasn’t learned the lesson of the fire department.
Maybe they could get the criminals, oh I mean ‘inmates’, to play taser-tag. That would be some funny reality TV. The RCMP have a few spares not being used.
Seb, you got it wrong, they are “clients”.
I’m also thinking handing a weapon to an inmate isn’t the best of idea….
but that’s just me.
Yeah and I know some trained, yet unemployed, prison guards who would LOVE a chance to get working in the prison system.
Sadly, it takes 5 years to get anyone actually hired from any competition the government posts.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t Mr Minister.
Damnit sebastian_, don’t give network TV good ideas like that. Not unless money changes hands.
The present minister reminds me of Adolf’s main meanie, Heinrich Himmler, right down to the cheesie moustache. Wonder if he slaps his thigh with a riding crop when he briefs prison management – the only thing that will solve this waxy ball of shit are 18″ cattle prods and a Barry Manilow compilation.
and so it goes, one idiot that gets an idea, too late. this is just as bad as that stupid fucking asshole long gun registry. there is a fucked up thing, right there. how many crimes are committed with a rifle or even a fucking shotgun, very few. now i can see handguns and getting all kinds of shit to have them, like i had to go through. but come on now, fucking hunting rifles and bird guns, jesus, give us a break. most of these idiot gangstas can’t even aim a hand gun, let alone hold and aim a rile or shotgun. takes some brains there, and of course, if they do manage to get nailed, they goto the country club in dartmouth for a very relaxing vacation, including games. what a fucked up society we live in, the victems get shit, and the crooks get all the breaks.
Yeah I can see it now, enraged spouse grabs long rifle to take out the other one. All of a sudden the spouse with the rifle stops and says “Shit this thing is registered, I can’t use it” and calmly lays it down.
I’m not a gun owner but I can tell you that I’m a fuck of a lot more concerned about some 16 year old mutant with an illegal 9mm peddling rock in the square than with some 45 year old hunter, or collector or aspiring biathlete who obey the law and register their weapons. I have no illusions about where the real threat lies and it sure as hell is not with law-abiding gun owners. The registry was nothing but a knee-jerk over-reaction to the tragic events at the Montreal Polytechnical School and a typical Liberal Party tax grab.
Perhaps I don’t fully understand the legislation but is it true that when an owner who has registered their firearms dies the weapons cannot be inherited, or sold , or passed on but must be handed over to the police for eventual destruction? Can anybody clarify this for me?
I’m heading into town to register my new spatula, hey those things can be lethal in the wrong hands.
yes, I’ve heard death by spatula is particularly horrific…
and the very same implement is usually used to scrape your remains off the floor.
But only steel spatulas, plastic ones are still legal.
you don’t want to know the damage I could inflict with a single, plastic spatula.
or this wooden sucker:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jauderho/2181…
Another guy beatun up last night, a newcomer to our fair city. The comments on CBC paint a fairly dim picture of Halifax.
I’m asking again, where’s His Worship?
I wonder how long it will take the spineless Coast to rat this dude out like they did the fireman?
I’m not totally certain Mein Baz but but I think Hizzoner Jacques Poo-steau contracted flesh-eating virus after his last cesspool photo-op. On the plus side, it killled the 120 ft long tapeworm he got last time he allowed harbour water to touch his pallid ghostlike form . On the minus side he now resembles a pair of googly eyes on top of a chicken neck. Oops, thats last years file photo – my bad . >: (
Ivan – good description, I’ve always thought he resembles Lord Voldemort.
But, on a serious note, he hasn’t said diddly squat about this issue because it isn’t positive and has a racial angle to it.
We need CCTV in this city, never mind the invasion of privacy wonks, and the first area it needs deploying is in and around city housing.
We pay to house them, we demand rights.