“WHEN ALL is said and done ...”’ a ponderous member of the British Columbia legislature one day advised his colleagues, before lapsing into silence. Standing at his desk, he looked around, smiled, and finally added: ‘‘There is nothing much left to do or say.’’ Gary Bannerman He sat down. We are at that point in the great teferendum of 1992. Since Meech failed two years ago, there have been innumerable commissions, reports and endless media. Governments may have spent $200 million. Mary political friends have enjoyed the biggest paydays of their lives. Finally, with unprecedented unanimity, the nation’s leaders hatched a deal. The verdict will be in tomor- Tow. Nothing more can be said now. ees This week will be remembered as Toronto’s World Series adven- ture: the week when major leagué baseball officially apologized to all Canadians for inverting the maple leaf. President George Bush said, “*Me too!’ And Prime Minister Mulroney graciously accepted the apologies. He reported that we were bloodied but unbowed. In my army days, [ once hoisted the old red ensign upside down, Canada survived. After 10 laps of the parade square, my life resumed as nor- mal. My guess is that the young U.S, Marine is still running ground a parade square. On an infinitely smaller scale, but considerably less ridiculous, we witnessed this week yet more evidence of Canada’s international reputation, Top narcotics officers from eight countries of the,world flew into Richmond, B.C. to be educated in the fine points of money laundering, the practice of “‘cleansing”’ the mountains of cash generated by the world’s most significant criminal opera- tions, The money must be made to appear to have come from le- gitimate sources. From Thailand, the base of the Golden Triangle, came the direc- tor of the Narcotics Control Bureau and a police major gener- al. 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He infiltrated the highest levels of American organized crime, set- ting off a series of events that led him to the studios of Front Page Chailenge, the pages of Reader’s Digest and the award of B.C.’s Police Officer of the Year. But that was a decade ago. Since retirement from active ser- vice, Payne had become a noted lecturer on substance abuse and various aspects of in-service police training in Canada and the United States. A gifted humorist and story- teller, be has likely spoken to more RCMP regimental dinners than anyone in history. Despite a series of freelance successes, he remained in search of a mission until one day, three years ago. He was in Florida, teaching a course to American police of- ficers. He asked himself why he and hundreds of his Canadian Police colleagues had not orga- nized their own international educational program. Canada and al} of the front-line nations invest fortunes in the education of police and justice of- ficials, and the various forensic specialties. Most of these officers retire when they are about 45 years of age. . Payne convinced his friend Bob Siddle, the president of the Westpac Security Group based in Surrey, that an export educational program could be developed. Siddle, a retired RCMP sergeant, was enthusiastic. He gave the idea a business founda- tion and Payne provided the wings. The result was electrifying. The jungle telegraph cattled through the Canadian police community. Payne and Siddle were not sur- prised to find scores of genuinely expert police specialists who were eager to become teachers. But they were overwhelmed by what became a succession of ac- tive and retired superintendents, chief superintendents, and assis- tant commissioners. They added their endorsement and executive support. The Institute of Advanced Poiice Techuiques was born. Former Vancouver Chief Bob Stewart and the current chairman of the Justice Institute of B.C., fent his name. The outgoing commanding of- ficer of the RCMP in B.C., Don Wilson, gave the project a boost before assuming his new post as Inspector-General of Police in New South Wales, Australia. Another deputy commissioner, Henry Jensen, joined the board of advisers and former RCMP Commissioner Bob Simmonds, who commanded the 17,000- member national police force, recommended the Vancouver ven- ture to the United Nations. It has been popular in recent days to \nuck the federal gov- ernmer.t. When we assisted Payne and Sidcte during the early days of their concept, the office of Western Economic Diversification came through with some seed funding, a loan on the most SINGLE VISIONS ist PAIR *59.99 2nd PAIR Glass or plastic lenses. To Powers +or-6 with 2 cyl. (Extra Excluded) BI-FOCALS Ist PAIR *79.99 Glass or Plastic 2nd PAIR Reg. 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A report from the Institute of Advanced Police Techniques said this week, ‘‘It takes years before this infiltration ultimately becomes world news: small countries beceme noted for their instantly hatched plethora of banking in- stitutions, aircraft landing strips, cargo trans-shipments, dummy corporations and illicit drug activ- ity.”” Third World nations complain that the rich countries give crime its profit; they become mere links in the chain. It is a struggle to maintain levels of sophistication and affluence to fight gangsters who are richer than Midas. This week, Payne's three- year-old venture, in partnership with the United Nations, educated a group of police officers many ranks higher than he had ever at- taiaed. One participant remarked that it is possible Canada may one day achieve, in the education of police officers worldwide, the same stature the country enjoys in peacekeeping. tt was a good week in which to feel privately proud of the maple leaf, either way up. 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