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Correctional Officer - Holland College The Certificate in Conservation Enforcement, delivered at the Atlantic Police Academy, Slemon Park, is a 15-week program 'specifically designed to provide training to wildlife and forestry technicians' in 'the skills and knowledge they need for a career in conservation enforcement.' Among the major areas in which students will develop competencies are approaching suspects and vehicles, basic control tactics and use of force components, dealing with telephone complaints and the media, developing memory and observation and questioning and investigative skills and techniques, driving enforcement vehicles, fitness and lifestyle training, job-related laws like Case Law, Criminal Code, and Federal and Provincial Statutes, maintaining, handling and using a pistol and/or revolver, preserving crime scenes and protecting evidence, small boat safety, radio operating procedures, report writing and computer skills. Graduates will be ready to pursue employment in various criminal justice agencies and authorities across Canada. In particular, graduates will have the prerequisites to pursue positions in the areas of conservation, enforcement, and/or security regarding natural resources, parks, provincial and federal environment, and wildlife, as well as 'in other related fields of enforcement and security throughout Canada.' Graduates may also pursue further studies at institutions, colleges, and universities across Canada. For example, graduates may be interested in pursuing Holland College's Wildlife Conservation Technology program. The Certificate 'is a mandatory residential program' for which students must 'live in residence...for the duration of the training, excluding the' 6 weeks of 'on-the-job training.' Students are required to live in residence because it is believed that the resulting environment 'provides experiential learning that would not be possible if students interacted with one another in an instructional setting alone.' Moreover, being in residence enables students to better 'develop skills in teamwork, problem solving, time management and communications' as well as attitudes 'that are essential to a successful career in the policing community' like 'gender and cross-cultural sensitivity.' While in residence, students will live in 'single person rooms' that include air conditioning, bathroom, heating, refrigerator, and television, and students will be provided with '15 meals per week from supper Sunday evening to Friday lunch' that will be 'provided by Slemon Park Food Services.' Students will be ' responsible for their own meals from Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch.' Moreover, students will have access to common laundry, non-cooking kitchen, sitting, and television facilities and areas. To be eligible for admission to the Program, applicants are required to be 19 years of age or older by the start of the Program, have completed Grade 12, or equivalent, including 'credits at or above the general level,' and have a post-secondary 'certificate or diploma in a related field. Further, prospective students must pass a Psychological Profiling Test, complete a Holland College medical form, provide proof of Canadian citizenship and a Police Records Check with no findings of guilt (CPIC), have a valid unrestricted driverĘs license, certification in swimming - Aqua Quest 6 or equivalent, and certification in Standard First Aid and CPR, all of which must also 'be valid for the duration of the program,' and submit a resume that includes 'work and volunteer experience with applicable dates, membership in groups, associations or athletics, awards and distinctions, and any other' potentially relevant information about the applicant. Applicants should note that admission 'preference will be given to candidates who are qualified Forestry, Wildlife, Fishery, or Environmental Technicians or graduates of a renewable resource program.'
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