THIS IS FOR POLICE PREPARATION CLASS:

THIS IS A PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:

They kind of led me in the direction of We Are public helpers it's what time someone told me so just being able and showing that you're volunteering is something that you are doing but something that you want to do aand you're very passionate because they're going to see right through someone who's volunteering just because they have to and someone who's volunteering because they actually want to the career of the police officer is preserved for the public right so they basically want to know that you are going to be out there helping others connecting with the community that you're working in even if you're not getting paid so they want to know that you have that sort of commitment that connection it just so happens we do get paid to be in the community be visible we get actually paid a pretty funny but it's really really important that you're volunteering is not doesn't just begin two months before you start applying but 6 months before 4 months before and you show that longevity because that's what a lot of recruiters are looking for so when I was applying I was volunteering at the Canadian Red Cross Refugee program I was with big brothers and big sisters and I would also was volunteering with the Toronto Police Service Special Olympics so anytime they had some sort of tournament or anything I would be there volunteering so I knew it wasn't really my volunteer experience it must have been my life experience so I got a job at GoodLife and I kind of started working with the public and working on my customer service skills and trying to build that portion of my life and then I decided okay I am clearly a very fit person because you have to have a certain level of physical fitness am I at my best and the answer was no and I'm going to be completely honest you have to be at your top when you're going into this job because as a police officer you lose your right to be unfit you lose your right to go 3 weeks without working out because when you get on the job and you're in the fight of your life or your trying to attend a call and tensions are high and your heart's racing there's adrenaline you need to be able your body needs to be able to handle that so it's really important that we maintain our physical fitness right so I invested almost I honestly want to say thousands of dollars into a personal trainer and I did that throughout my recruiting process and before I applied to peel it it sucks that you're putting out money before you're getting paid for it but if this is what you have to do to get yourself the job you're spending a couple of thousand dollars versus a career that is 100k plus right so it makes sense in hindsight but that's what I did and my aunt copy got a phone call from a recruiter from peel about another student in her class so she's a professor at Centennial as well so she got a recall from the recruiter and then they started talking about me in my application and then he reached out to me and that's how my application kind of got rolling Okay so it was very quick very fast that I got hired I did three interviews in the time span of a month and then there was a Two week Gap and then I did my psych evaluation so I'm not sure how familiar you all are with the psych portion but basically it happens in two days so your first day is a questionnaire you're answering almost a thousand plus questions it's simple questions like do you like the sun do you like sand do you like the park do you like kids do you like little boys it's it's all simple questions but questions that will make you read into them so my rule was I was going to read the question once and then answer and move on because if you reread the question you're going to overthink sorry guys once sorry about that so if you reread it you're going to overthink it and then it's going to become suspicious because you're probably going to answer it and it's going to sound weird so just read it once answer move on what I found I was overthinking was do I like or am I scared of needles do I like fire do I like watching fire doo am I comfortable with blood sort of those questions and I was answering yes to all those questions so after I kind of went back and I was like ooh do I like needles diploma right and I went through for fire so it all makes sense and that's kind of the gist of that your next day is going to be an interview with the psychologist and that is where you have the opportunity to explain all of your answers so if you do have a question that you're kind of concerned about in your concerned about the way you answered it you can explain that during the interview a lot of people do end up with failing the psych portion simply because they are one not being honest two they are trying to answer the questions in a way that they think the psychologist wants them to answer okay so those are straight roots to failing the psych you are sitting in a room with a trained professional and I don't know personally any of you but I can probably guess that none of you are trained psychologists that have worked in the field for years and years and years and do this as a living you can't fool them and that's just the way it goes so be honest anything you have to say they probably have heard it many times before so don't feel embarrassed or feel concerned because they're trying to figure you out and you have to be an open book with them so that's the end of the site other additional questions so do you feel comfortable cold or yeah holding a gun do you feel comfortable using your tools on your tool belt so your uses of horse your pistol your taser your pepper spray your baton do you feel comfortable using them do you feel comfortable shooting someone and they use those words to kind of confuse you and make you think don't when she when my psychologist asked me if I felt comfortable shooting someone my obvious answer was no like no I can obviously don't feel comfortable shooting someone but then you think about it like you would if you had to on the job but that's not the question she's asking she's asking do you feel comfortable elaborate in your mind just take the question for what it is and be honest I I hope that most of you are saying no you don't because it's not that is our last option right and do you feel comfortable holding a gun my answer was no I don't I've never held a gun in my life I don't go to the gun range or anything but I will feel comfortable because of the training that they're going to provide me and if I don't feel comfortable I'll talk to them and they'll provide me with more so obviously that answer kind of with enough that was what they were looking for I think obviously because I was honest but yeah and that's the psych portion and then you have your index so you're in depth interview was my first formal interview that is when you go to the store you get new clothes you get your hair done you want to look be absolute best because that is your first real impression or that was my first real impression to my recruiters and to the sergeants at peel the in-depth day bring up all the questions that psychologists had from your previous interview with them they bring up those questions as well as they bring up questions that they have from your background check it's that interview lawsuit a very long time it was almost an hour and a half an hour and 45 minutes they do dig into your past and into your social media and they know everything right so being very forthcoming of everything if you had a traffic stop if you've been at a party where the police officers came just letting them know everything because if they find out that you left something else out you're done that like that that they're not going to question you more about it only because there are so many candidates that probably are as equally qualified as you that were truthful and forthcoming in the whole interview process so don't block list yourself and by covering things that are really minor up most cases they've heard it before they just want to know that you're you're not afraid and you don't really you've learned from what you've done and that's really about it another thing I'll talk about is marijuana use it is legal you don't have to be scared about it but a lot of services have mandates as to when you can use it when you can go back on shift after using it how much and blood levels and all of that particular stuff so it is something that I would get ahead of personally I don't I don't use it or anything like that but I know of many people who have not gotten ahead of and disclosed some things like that and they've been blocked listed for about 3 years and it took them 3 years to repeat applying until they eventually got hired nothing else was wrong except for that one piece of information which tells you that it's that piece of information that's holding you back so definitely be honest I'm going to say that a lot honestly honestly honesty and nothing is new their recruiters they've talked to hundreds probably can't of candidates that have not the same story but similar stories so you're not going to shop them you're not going to surprise them after my end up interview I had my Ford interview and again you don't want to girls you don't want to be wearing the exact same thing if you can't afford it where like a different top or a different dress try to change it up and just I don't know that was the thing Thing like my mother always taught me like just don't be like where in the same clothes if you can avoid it if not then it is what it is but if you can avoid it try not to wear the same thing twice it is a business formal interview and you're going to be or I was in front of and then inspector Duty surgeon a sergeant into constables and it was a U-shaped table and they were all surrounding me so the environment is very I don't want to say it was scary but it was intimidating to me but you have to keep in your mind that if you are getting a board interview you are hired and that's the mindset you have to have walking into it because they're not going to take the time to spend the whole day with you if and talk to you with an inspector make sure you're not going to be hired at the end of the day so you have the job just you know what to do you're obviously good with interviewing and you have something that they're looking for be confident in your abilities and be very polite and be professional because they're going to be relaxed and they're going to joke around and they're going to say that like hello how are you they're going to make you feel comfortable but that is not the go-ahead for you to start slouching start clicking a pen start don't walk in with gum like do not do that that's a big no no but even if they start acting a little bit more casual you're there interviewing for a high caliber job so conduct yourself accordingly and tell you go to the parking lot and then you can call your mom call your sister brother whoever you need to do whatever you need to do but while you're in there just be professional my hiring process with peel I said this at the beginning it was very fast I started in April and I signed my contract at the end of August now after my lfi yes my lfi which was at the end of May I had to run the beat test twice a month and video tape it and send it in to peel because they couldn't bring us in and run and do the prep sessions so that's their way of making sure that you're staying physically fit and then after my psych it was every week thank goodness that I got hired so quick I only had to do to weekly I guess recording since then so every time you record yourself you either want to get faster you want to get to another level or you want to show that your your cardio is getting easier so they're going to be able to hear how heavy your breathing they're going to be able to see in your face that you're putting into it so just making sure especially for people the most physically no so we put the biggest emphasis on Fitness I would say now Toronto Toronto Fitness but three times again when we came back from OPC and knocked on top of the pin test and you do the pin and prep in one day so it is a lot but it's not as hard as it sounds because of the morale of everyone that you're working with everyone everyone's trying hard everyone's tired so if you're tired It's not that big of a deal because it's we all look sweaty and gross at the end of the day and it is what it is right so just keep that in mind if you are going to apply to peel know what you're signing up for another thing is when you do when you are hired and you do the pin yearly we give you incentives so like if you do it four times so once a year for 4 years will give you like a Fitbit or like a tablet or like a bike I think is after 10 years or something like that but there are incentives to keep your physical fitness up but as I said before we lose the right to sit on the couch and eat donuts so know what your what you're in for because plenty of people have been hired and fired because they're not keeping up their physical fitness like recruits have been hired and fired so that was my hiring process I am sorry just to say if you guys have any questions put it in the chat I'm going to try to answer it as I go but at the end I'll also open up the floor to questions as well so if you have any questions about Fitness or anything like that you can throw it in there now so now I'll talk about pre so after you've been hired Toronto peel York and OPP they have the longest pre-training that I know of in Ontario not every service has pre-training and the benefit of this is they teach you everything you're going to learn not everything but the beginning of what you're going to learn at OPC so they kind of set you up for Success before you go there it's really important because OPC is not cheap it was just under $16,000 when I went they do provide you with food accommodations really everything you need living wise however it's also 16,000 and in the middle of nowhere so just prepare yourself for that if you don't know which is 45 minutes from London I'm starting just reading question the question was during my interviews how many women were a part of the I guess the interviewing process I knew of six however when I was hired there were 20 29 females nope sorry there were 24 females that were hired in my class the rest were mailed so that was just kind of the ratio they're really happen half now for a lot of the major Services we do put a big emphasis on hiring females my recruiter was a female only recruiter so we do have like a fair go with the interviewing process So just to hop back to OPC the three main topics that you'll learn there is the HTA so highway traffic you'll learn a Fed law and problem so those are the three main topics that's what you'll have your exams on that's what you need to know inside and out in this job we need to know our authorities because our authorities are what gets us in trouble and what saves us so when you see all these videos people saying this is an unlawful arrest how are you going to know if you never really read the criminal code if you've never really took the time and studied when you're at OPC you're not going to know and then you're going to do something silly and it's going to come back on you so take the time to learn to understand and not just read it and regurgitate it you need to understand it and be able to apply it into real life scenarios which is all that's all the stuff they're going to teach you Danna OPC so don't be intimidated about it my last class that I was speaking with you you guys were familiar with the 494 495 yes I know a little bit Yeah Okay so you're already ahead of the game that's the benefit of taking police foundations is that you already know the terminology the academic portion of policing which is a lot of it you know report writing and report writing I can tell you takes up hours of my shifts even now spend six seven hours in front of a computer trying to dictate and type and do aall these crazy reports for the justice and everything like that so you guys are already ahead of the game is basically what I'm trying to say after you finish OPC which is 3 months long you'll go to post post? and OPP have the longest that I know of the longest Post in the Ontario Services it's really important because when you go to OPC it's very generic they are not specific to every Police Service they mainly Target the opp because they're the largest service and that's something that we're going to have to just suffer through because I suffered through it and it OPP the different animal I'm like honestly they're just different but when you come back to your service they're going to teach you how they want you to handle your gun how they want you to clear a room how they want you to handle a missing persons they they will teach you all of that so for myself it was 8 weeks of post when I came back and that was all in person so we didn't do aany Zoom because covid doesn't stop placing so the fact that you're going to learn on a computer it just doesn't it just doesn't work so everything's in person so don't be alarmed when they say that that you'll have to attend in person you'll also go through driving so in vehicle stops and high risk takedowns all the fun stuff you'll do aat post and then you graduate post and then you graduate you get your badge it's all celebrations and rainbows and sunshine and then you do your field training and then it's scary again because that's when you first go on the road you're in the public eye your there's no safety net right because everyone has a cell phone everyone's doing this and your face and like it's it's great but it's awful what's great about it is it makes you attentive to what you're doing it makes you second guess Not second guess but it makes you double think about and double check I guess if what you're doing is acceptable you have to they have this thing called NRA I don't know if you guys know about NRA but necessary risk effective so is it necessary is what is the risk to do what you're doing and is that plan of action going to be effective so that is something that you're constantly thinking when you're on the road one of the positives with my class and with you guys when you get hired is I'm the first class to have body one cameras now watch one cameras it's amazing but it's different we've never done it before. does do it are I think it's still no longer pilot project but it's still very new like very recent right Uncle Chris yeah okay yeah so it's still very recent but you need to it's an audio and visual it's always visual sometimes audio you have to turn it on to get the audio and what you see the video sees so there's no covering up what happened in a call because it's all going to be taken in and it's all public knowledge so if a lawyer request for your body cam footage a lawyer is going to get your body cam footage one way or another it's going to come out and you need to own what you did and that's the important so yeah that's kind of about body wearing cameras when you go on the road you're going to be with your field training officer there's three phases with peel the first phase you are with them for four shift blocks and that's about a month and a bit you're pretty much a fly on the wall you're going to be driving you're going to be practicing emergency runs you're going to be doing all the fun stuff but when you respond to calls when you're dealing with the public you're going to let your coach officer kind of Take the Lead and you're going to be an observer obviously you are engaging when you need to but for the most part you're kind of just listening taking in what they say and following their directions your field training officer so all the papers that you have to put on all of the remarks and comments that you have to make on the MDU when you're dealing with the public you can definitely ask your field training officer if what you're doing is correct away from the public like take the message again for sex is they're the fly on the wall and you're doing everything you're responding on the radio you're looking up directions on the MDU your start to finish it's all you you should not have to really lean on them for a lot of things obviously if you have some questions if you have a concern they're there but it's mainly you what they told me is that by phase 3 I should be able to respond to a call and they can just stay in the car and I'll be able to handle it if I need to call a 78 which is a backup I can call for backup but I don't need my field training officer to tell me when to call 10:45 I guess that's the way they want us to run the call and then after your 3 months if you need more time please be honest and tell them that you need more time if you're not comfortable because odds are they will accommodate you for that because the last thing is is that you're going to go on the road and you're not responding to calls you're not Not doing everything properly because you are just uncomfortable and you don't you don't know what you're doing because then that sets the Precedence that you're you don't exactly you just don't know what to doo and you were rookies and our reputation means a lot so if you need extra assistance just say so if you need advice just say so and I'm sure the guys on your shift are going to help you no one's really rude or talks down to you or says that rookies need to be seen and not heard like no one's like that but like you're you're definitely going to be the first one who clears on the radio you're going to be the first one you're going to be the last one that calls off on the radio you're definitely going to make sure your uniform is iron your boots make sure that you look and act professionally and talk to you because that's what they expected that's why they put so much money into you God is kind of all I have to say about post and pre and OPC oh and OPC the food sucks I'm not even going to show your code you can buy food at the grocery store in Elmer also there's many different restaurants I would advise for you guys to kind of do that if you can some people didn't mind the food but majority of people kind of it's the same thing every single time and it's not it's not home cooking so I don't know you can pick and choose what you want to eat but what is there is there and you just kind of have to live with that also a lot of people okay so because the food is free and you can eat as much as you want a lot of people are losing their physical fitness because there is so much to learn in such a short period of time there's only so many Fitness classes that they can put in so it's really on you to make sure that you're maintaining your physical fitness there's a gym Planet Fitness or fit for last something like that in St Thomas you can buy a 3-month pass and go there if you want there's a gym at opc but not everyone has access to it all the time so certain people have access Monday Tuesday Other people it's Wednesday Friday like it's all scattered just because of covid and restrictions and stuff but definitely make sure please make sure that you're not backsliding on your Fitness I know of three people that couldn't pass Fitness at OPC they went in with great cardio but with all the cookies bar food right so it's not healthy you definitely shouldn't be eating there every night but it's easy to eat there every night especially when you're being served food that isn't that appealing so they couldn't pass their Fitness and then when they got back to their service they still couldn't pass their Fitness they were given one opportunity and didn't go through and they were fired so you have to wear that and also you're stuck with the bill you're stuck with $16,000 in debt if you didn't pay for it out right you're stuck with that you're stuck with the almost the the feeling of being down on yourself because you had this great job and you just weren't attentive to your physical fitness and let it slide as well as you make it very difficult for yourself when you were already hired and they were paying you to go to school but you got fired because you couldn't finish a test like it's just very silly so guys just do what's asked of you do the literally the bare minimum and you'll be you'll totally be fine they doo accommodate dietary needs they do 100% so if you're a vegan vegetarian if you don't eat like red meat that sort of thing they do accommodate you for sure you just have to tell them before going into OPC so on the first day you fill out a form and that's kind of how you go about that another thing was oh I'll throw my email in the chat just if you guys have any questions that you forget or kind of come to mind after you can definitely ask me I'm also going to put in the chat a fitness trainer I'm in Brampton but he's in Toronto so I don't know where you guys are but if you do identify that your physical fitness isn't bad but you want to get better because you're almost at that point of applying specializes in law enforcement training and he can definitely help you and get you in the best shape for the test required for the job another thing I'll talk about is connections so it Toronto does great prep sessions they did ATS sessions when that was a thing but I urge every single one of you to attend a prep session attend an information session make your face known your name known because if you do apply there they're going to see your name and they're going to put a face to that resume right they're going to call Toronto and be like oh I heard this person can you tell me about them and that's the way you can't obviously you want to be no you want to stand out and that's the name of the game is being able to stand out in a pool of thousands that are applying for the same position that you are so if you can Network that way or if you have family friends to network with that's great that yeah . yeah other jobs I know that you guys were looking at your resumes on previous to me starting to talk with you one job or the top three jobs that I will say helps the most is loss prevention and hospital security really any security but hospital security while being paid which is the best but building experience so if you can apply if there's job openings at the hospital at I know the South Detention Center as well as beignet which is a female prison down in Milton I think they are hiring I don't know if that kind of appeals to anyone but majority of the people in my recruit class or the people at OPC did those three jobs and it helps a lot oh another huge huge thing if you can start doing some sort of self-defense that is going to help you not only on the job but at OPC and outpost they are just their skills within Jujitsu that we need to learn that we are going to use when we are fighting for our life or fighting for a gun and that's the one of the biggest things people are going to do so we need to be prepared to protect ourselves when shit's hitting the fan okay so yeah if you can do Jujitsu boxing any sort of self-defense that's amazing and recruiters are going to love that your liaison you're like hiring leaves on recruiting liaison they're going to love that another thing is I don't know if anyone's in the military or has a military background but that's also a huge bonus life experience and just policing is paramilitary right so it's going to help you for sure but if you don't have any of those sort of backgrounds that's okay because in the recruiting it's all about life experience and transferable skills because they don't want cookie cutters they don't want everyone to have the same skills to have the same personality we meet different levels and different levels of experiences because we all work as a team and if someone has a skill in one area but we need a translator and there's someone on your shift that knows the different language that's when you're going to be utilized or if someone is really good at room clearing and someone really good at room clearing and someone really good at talking to youth or have a lot of a lot of experience in youth you're going to be probably your Those two units are going to be called to a I promise check or a messing Yo which is a missing youth last night I I'm just coming off at night shift so if I'm like honestly I'm super tired but if I'm wearing my words it's just cuz I'm tired but I just had a call last night where there was a missing 12 year old she left notes on the fridge there was just a whole bunch of things that were kind of going off for us that would indicate the worst and the dispatcher would call certain units because dispatchers are and they know like what units to call for what call and certain people got called certain people did not obviously everyone ended up showing up because it's a missing youth we did find her it was after my shift ended but we did find her she just kind of took a little Joyride on a bus and that but we did tracker which is great the end of the day we all went home we all saw her family's which that's the goal for everything what can I doo at the call to go home safely to my family nothing else is important it's officer Safety First and I'm a very empathetic person and I don't like confrontation I don't I'm not one to start an argument but I'll definitely intervene if things are getting hey Gabby if things are getting to escalated because when things get escalated certain things can happen and now it seems like everyone in their Uncle carries a gun so you you just got to be careful so stopping things with your mouth is the best way to go but it's officer safety everyday all day because we yes we protect the public but we protect ourselves first okay now I know there's a lot of services that do single man cars I thought what that meant was I'm walking into a house by myself and if things happen things happen and I have to wait for like back up no it doesn't happen like that if you're walking into an unknown house and it looks a little bit sketchy if really if anything kind of tips you off that it's not going to be okay you're going to call for a 78 you're going to call her back up you're going to wait in your Cruiser and sip your coffee until you're 78 comes and then you can formulate your plan you can go in together and sort of combat whatever you need to combat but safely okay I don't think there's anything else I don't think I missed anything but again if you guys have questions please put it in the chat and I'll start to answer those when you are assigned to a shift how many other members are on the shift okay so when you are assigned to a shift how many other members are on the same shift we do staggered start time so we do a 6:00 start at 7:00 start in at 9:00 start I'm on beach platoon and there's 32 of us yeah 32 of us on B platoon and we're all like we're all assigned different start times just so when we finish we finished at different times so we don't leave anyone we don't not have anyone on the road because the worst thing is is if you get a very violent domestic and everyone going off shift there's no patrol cars on the road what are you going to do if someone getting beat up in a park with the baseball bat and everyone's option you can't say oh well I got to go home I got to go sleep like you can't do that so that's why we do the standard chart time and it's 32 Toronto is probably a lot more just because you need that volume.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO:

Reflection Paper Assignment

Overview:

For this assignment, you will watch the video presentation by Police Constable Savanna Watson of the Peel Regional Police Service. Your task is to reflect on the content of her presentation and articulate your thoughts in a cohesive essay.

Instructions:

Watch the Presentation: Begin by carefully watching the video. Take notes on key points, themes, and any personal reactions you have during the presentation.

Structure Your Essay:

Introduction: Introduce the topic of the presentation. Provide some background information about Constable Watson and the context of her message. State your thesis, which could reflect your overall impression or the main takeaway from the presentation.

Body Paragraphs:

• Summary of Key Points: Summarize the main ideas presented by Constable Watson. Highlight important statistics, anecdotes, or messages she conveyed.
• Personal Reflection: Discuss your personal reactions to the presentation. How did it impact your understanding of law enforcement, community relations, or any specific issues she addressed? Share any insights or questions that arose while watching.
• Connection to Course Material: IT IS FOR POLICE PREP COURSE SO IT MAINLY FOCUSED ON FITNESS Relate her presentation to concepts or topics you have studied in class. How does her message align with or challenge what you have learned?

Conclusion: Wrap up your essay by reiterating your main points and offering final thoughts on the significance of Constable Watson's presentation. You might also suggest areas for further consideration or questions that remain.

Formatting and Submission:

it should be 3, 5 pages

• Include a title paage with your name, date, and the title of your esssay.
• Cite any sources if necessary, using the appropriate citation style (APA, MLA, etc.).

Your paper will be assessed based on clarity, depth of reflection, coherence, and the ability to connect the presentation to broader themes in your studies.