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§ West Vancouver Police ‘Board gave approval in : principle last week to the “. ... hising of civilian guards to oe watch prisoners held in the West Van police department jail.

-Estimated cost is about $7,500 per year. The_ police ‘board recommendation must await final acceptance in the 1977 budget.

The motion was presented to the board by Commission- er Art Langley. It provides for civilian guards to be on cail whenever prisoners are locked in the cell block, in order to augment the TV monitoring service presently in use.

The closed circuit TV system, costing approxi- mately $1,000, was instalied following a hanging death easly in 1974. It recently came under fire at a coroner’s inguest into a second death by hanging of a jail prisoner last summer.

arrest and conviction of the murderer of West Vancouver resident Tony Lay three years ago was approved last week by West Van Police Board.

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1973, asthe was about to get Mvestigating, thce ot four Causes $30,000 loss Path aed Aegiie police spokesman to Chlorine gas hovers : over Howe Sound 10a0.-7 p.m. A greyish, yellow cloud of | Squamish RCMP were Alan Frome Presents

chiorine and hydrocholosic gases, measuring some SO feet wide and 20 feet deep, hovered over Howe Sound and Squamish Monday, when a three-inch line ruptured, Resident plant Manager Ralph Ross said.

The incident caused no injuries, but it cost FMC of Canada Ltd. at least $30,000 loss in overtime wages, repair costs and financial loss when the plant had to shut down for almost 24 hours, Ross said Tuesday.

The gases were in a 150-foot long line connected to the acid production unit of the Squamish plant, Ross told the News. An automatic cut off closed the source, and only the gases in the damaged line escaped. “Our men were working on it within 45 minutes,’ Ross

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“We're still trying to figure out what caused the rupture,’’ Ross said. ‘‘It was not a wak line. tt was a new ine.

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The policy -decision was taken following a report on the matter by Chief Con- stable J.J. Hornell, who said the guard system would be similar to the one success- fully used in the North Vancouver RCMP cell block.

The guards will be equip- ped with an alarm system. They will not actually handle prisoners unless an emer-

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gency arises. Pay will be on

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Chief Hornell told the board that the police depart- ment would have to pay the guards’ salaries so long as prisonérs are in the sole custody of the department. Once they appear in provin- cial court, however, they become the responsibility of the provincial government. which picks up the tab from that point onward.

stand until May 31, 1977. Approval by the police board was given after Chief Con- stable J.J. Hornell told the commissioners that the case was being reopened as a result of new information

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case as being similar to a drug-oriented killing, in which the victim is injured to serve as a warning.

Evidence indicates that the assailant or assailants may. not have intended to ill Lay. Police say he died of a single . Shot from a .22 calibre rifle, which pierced his heart.

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