Working here in The Pas has left me little time to sit down and work on this page. I was just checking the usage of the page and it appears that people are still looking at it even though I finished Depot almost three years ago.
In Depot you will be taught the basics of what you need to know to survive in the field. You will learn the proper way to search someone, how to shoot your gun and how to pull someone over on the highway. But when you are in the field it is not your troopmate playing the role of a bad guy, here you might be dealing with a guy who has been convicted of manslaughter. In the field you are dealing with people who will hate you because of what you do for a living. I don't think you can teach someone to prepare for that in life.
The first year I found myself not sure how to respond to calls. There is the Depot way and the way that it is done in the field. I found myself indimidated by calls in which I had never responded to before. Such as an armed robbery, what has to be done, who has to be contacted, what needs to be preserved as evidence? Even simple files such as a stolen bicycle need to be done a certain way. Otherwise you are going to be in trouble with the Corporal who reviews your files. I can see it now in the new recruits that have arrived here in at our detachment. The look of not knowing what to do, the fustration of trying to learn a new way of doing things. Different Corporals want files done different ways. I can now look at them and see what I was going through my first few months here.
But now I know what is to be done with most files. There are always surprises and new experiences everyday but for most instances I have seen it before. You get to know the local drunks by name when you pick them up usually every shift.
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