Parks Canada Police About to be Tested (then Armed)
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Pilon said:
Did they even go through one before they got rifles, for that matter?
Border guards are a couple years ahead of them on this one and they're still having big issues. Once they got the keeners with a police/military background and a firearms background trained up, with the idea that they would then act as the trainers to the rest, they discovered that as many as one in three guards either couldn't or wouldn't meet the qualifications – some of them were medically or psychologically unfit, others just didn't want to carry a sidearm for various reasons. Be interesting to see how Parks Canada compares.
http://www.thespec.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/290682
http://www.thespec.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/290682
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That is a dated article printed before the course was even designed or the MOU was finalized with the RCMP. There is an average of 1-3 Officers failing each course for either marksmenship or the scenario based training. The candidate gets 2 tries at the course, before they could potentially lose their job. To date there only has been one person who has failed twice and that person has a medical condition and they were given a medical waiver.
I believe Parks Canada will experience the same results.
FYI
Out of the 23 or so CBSA National Trainers, there is 4 ex military/current reservist and 1 former Police Officer. More ex military or former LEO failed than passed. most of the trainers are hunters or at the time, they had no knowledge of firearms....just switched on individuals
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