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A chance to join the Mounties

Auxiliaries revitalized |

IF YOU have ever fancied being a Mountie now’s

your chance.

By NIGEL HORSLEY

North Vancouver RCMP is currently looking to select 12 part-timers from its batch of 45 applicants who’ll join 18 auxiliary constables who were previously active as the auxiliary manpower program

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In charge of it all is Cor- poral Don Jette who feels the volunteers have an important contribution to make in the community.

**The auxiliary force of the RCMP is a volunteer organization and it’s a man- power supplement to the

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regular force for example duties such as directing traf- fic. Instead of paying somebody $30,000 a year to stand and direct traffic it’s done on a volunteer basis. **A lot will be involved in our crime prevention pro- grams; for example, fellows are going to be in our Ski Watch Program. What they do is they go out into the community up onto the ski

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hills and such and mark skis up there. Again you're get- ting a member of the com- munity to do it free,’’ said Jette.

He said they are stull awaiting word from Ottawa as to the new role of the aux- iliaries, who, incidentally, won't be carrying firearms although they'll be trained in their use.

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on hold what we had them doing was they were acting as a manpower supplement. The fellows would ride in the patrol cars with the regular members on a busy Thurs- day, Friday, Saturday night. Hallowe'en night, for exam- ple, they would come out with the fellows and they would be the second person in the patrol car,”’ said Jette.

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their own on foot patrols on Lonsdale and in high crime areas. For example we were having a lot of crime pro- blems in the city south area from Keith Road down toward the water with thefts from vehicles in underground parking lots and out on the streets.

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