Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 14, 1983, p. 15

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Georgetown Acton Wednesday 1983 Halton Police starting 12hour duty shifts STILL MORE By ALEX A need for a system that would provide better working prompted regional police to implement shifts for moat of its uniformed officers and much of its civilian staff The 32week trial progr due to end Jan a tsMwU be evaluated by participant three times results of tbe first be known about Sept 1 It was circulated for response by July 15 but Is being extended said dep utychief Bob One of the main concerns the was seven or eight midnight shifts in a row every days Along with this was a desire to get better days off he said With new schedule officers work two days followed by hours off then two nights followed by four Nobody baa to look forward to more than two days work without a break he said Although fatigue can be a problem at the of the second 12hour shift prospect of time on motivates people to keep on going he said About 75 per cent of all people working for the police force are participating the 33week trial program for officers said and was requested by the records bureau It began there on June In Ontario this system Is used in Barrie Midland and say llaltons participation makes It the largest force using the system Eleven out of 12 forces in the greater Vancouver area also employ the 11 hour shift There is total support in Orillia Locally the trial program was ap proved by just over per cent of the police association be said However he has had reports of favorable response One Burlington officer said if she had been at the vote she would have opposed the hour shift but having now worked it wouldnt choose any other So far one office worker has quit unable to fit the shift in with her family life Everybody wont be satisfied but we have to try to get something better he said gives PM advice MP Otto Jelinek sent a telegram to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau suggesting appropriate responses for the Canadian government to the Soviet Union air force destruction of the Korean Airlines passenger Jet Following Is the text of the message sent on September I In light of the Intentional and unforglv able action perpetrated by tbe Soviet Union against a Korean Airlines killing innocent and unprotected passengers and crew Including a number of Canadian citizens 1 urge you to dispense with your traditional and simple diplomatic protest and instead take a more stringent and effec tive position by Immediately recalling our ambassador from Moscow Further I urge that you order an immediate freeze on all ongoing negotiations and agreements with Union until such time as Moscow offers an acceptable international Iron clad guarantee which would cease any fur ther actions of piracy Intervention and Infringement on human safely freedom and rights Board briefs Wants Program After receiving a letter from a concerned taxpayer and parent Board of Education and Georgetown trustee Betty Fisher has requested Investigation of a program dealing with child molestation Fisher explained that In light of the letter and a delegation to the board a while ago she would tike to know the feasibility of introducing such a program John McDermld McDermid in Tory shadow cabinet Local MPs Otto Jelinek and John McDermld have both been named to new Opposition Leader Brian Mulroney s shadow cabinet Jelinek who worked for a leadership review vote at the convention In Winnipeg and then backed Mulroney in Ottawa was named the Tory critic for Small Business and Tourism BramptonGeorgetown MP McDermld made It to the shadow cabinet for the first time despite being a Clark loyalist McDermid will be the Conservative critic for Indian Affairs Beatty the MP fop Wellington Dufferln Slmcoc was named critic for National Revenue backed former leader Joe Clark in Ottawa but III ret a shadow binet post A member of the short lived Clark cabinet In Beatty was the youngest cabinet minister ever in Canada He was formerly Tory critic for Communications Former cabinet minister and leadership hopeful 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