Training Manager
Resume:
Ronald G. BOURNE
Retired Commander - Sr. Superintendent of Police
Bible Hill, Nova Scotia B6L 4B4
Security Clearance: Secret (Level II) Active until 2019 - Government of
Canada
Hazardous Environment Training: Completed June 2009 at CF Peace Support
Training Centre, Kingston, Ontario
CV Highlighting Executive & Command Experience
Recent Career Experience:
Mentor to the Ministry of the Interior
European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan
June 2009 to October 2009
. Mentor and advisor to Afghanistan National Police commanders at the
Police Regional Training Centre in Herat, Afghanistan; instructed
Police Leadership & Management training course to Afghanistan National
Police / Ministry of the Interior commanders in Kabul; and, developed
a long range Police Professional Development model for the Minister of
the Interior and the ANP.
Senior Police Advisor & Canadian Police Contingent Commander
Darfur Integrated Task Force, AU Mission in Sudan
December 2005 to December 2007
. Provided advice to Police Commissioner, Darfur Integrated Task Force,
on strategic planning, command & control mechanisms, administration,
organizational, and operations doctrine advisor during the development
of the Concept of Operations for the African Union Police Component's
Peace Support Mission in Darfur. This planning initiative followed
the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement. Critical police peace-
building tasks incorporated in the plan emphasized the protection of
women and children from gender-based violence, trafficking and
exploitation; building the technical capacity of the Govt. of Sudan
Police and the AU Police monitors to investigated crimes of gender-
based violence; providing a supportive environment for victims of
these crimes; developing indigenous community police services from
among the occupants of the 65 registered IDP camps; and, monitoring
the Govt. of Sudan Police to ensure that they respected the human
rights and dignity of the diverse civilian population of the Darfur
region.
. Directed, monitored and reported on Canada's contingent of police
experts embedded with the African Union Mission in Sudan (Darfur
Region).
. Provided twice-monthly activity reports to Foreign Affairs Canada &
Canadian Ambassador, Addis Ababa.
. Developed the Concept of Operations, the strategic planning document
for the Police component engaged in the African Union Mission for
Election Security in the Comoros Islands.
. Developed the Concept of Operations for the Police component in the
anticipated African Union Peace Support Mission in Somalia.
o Referee: Police Commissioner Karl Mario NOBIN
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Senior Police Advisor
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Republic of Macedonia
April 2002 to December 2005
(Senior Country Representative, Int'l Criminal Investigation Training
Assistance Program
ICITAP
Republic of Macedonia
June 2005 to December 2005)
. Landmark achievement included the successful founding of Community
Policing in 8 regional municipalities, including the capitol of
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The key stone in the acceptance and
nation-wide adoption of Community Policing was in the design,
development and implementation of a unique training curriculum for the
Macedonian Police on Community Policing - six modules designed
specifically for the Macedonian experience and environment. As an
expert in adult learning and curriculum development, the modules were
designed for individual or small group studies under the guidance of
an experienced police coach or mentor. The curriculum was endorsed by
the Minister (subsequently Prime Minister) and adopted nation-wide for
the 6,000 members of the Public Peace & Order Police, 2,000 Road
Safety & Traffic Police, as well as the Crime Police & Border Police.
After leading countless tutoring sessions, Supt. Bourne has been the
inspiration for more than 300 police officers in every municipality
and region in the completion of their studies. The curriculum is self-
sustaining and in all thirteen municipal regions, enthusiastic
Macedonian police graduates are guiding and mentoring successive
generations of colleagues and community candidates through the
curriculum. The curriculum has been presented by the Ministry of
Internal Affairs at a SE Europe regional police training conference,
as a model of excellence for other national police services throughout
the Balkans. CIDA and the RCMP were principal donors and assisted in
funding the conference.
. The adoption of Community Policing principles by the Macedonian Police
benefits communities and ethnic groups throughout the nation. During
the Yugoslavian era, the main function of the police was to protect
the State. The transformation to a community police service model
represents a profound paradigm shift where the police accept their new
role where they respect and protect the rights of the individual,
regardless of ethnic, social or economic status. Retired police
officers reminisced about the golden years when citizens feared the
authority of the police. The new generation of Macedonian Police has
embraced the principals associated with contemporary police services
of Europe and Canada.
. Together with Macedonian Police and international partners, founded
'community consultation' groups in 8 of the regional municipalities.
These regions had been the scene of intense ethnic-based armed
conflict during 2001. The Police found themselves targets of ambush
tactics and assassinations from a terrorist element. The consultation
process was integral to the successful peace-building process
including the re-introduction of the Macedonian Police into those
communities where the fighting had been the most intense and
terrorists had been the most active. Community leaders in these
groups attended workshops on Community Policing facilitated by Supt.
Bourne.
. Designed a national symbol for community policing based on a Mimosa
branch, plus introduced a system of awards for Community Police
graduates, mentors and leaders within the police and community. Using
heraldic devices, designed the symbol for Human Trafficking workshops
and for Citizens' Police Academies. The later has been held in four
diverse municipalities.
. Established Community Leadership workshops, community consultation
meetings and founded citizen-police academies throughout major
municipalities of Macedonia, as well as facilitated a series of six
Human Trafficking workshops, bringing together diverse community
representatives, aid agencies, NGOs, state institutions and the
police. The Community Leadership workshops were designed to
strengthen partnerships with the goal of improving local quality of
life issues. The Human Trafficking workshops developed collaborative
enforcement and victim support initiatives involving police
investigators, prosecutors, investigative judges, trial judges,
international aid agencies and national NGOs.
. Designed and delivered Police Executive Development workshops for
fourteen Asst Ministers, & Chiefs of Departments in Ministry of
Internal Affairs. Subsequently, served as a mentor for each of the
executives who completed this Five-Day MBA programme.
o Referee: Gary Bennett, Programme Manager ICITAP, Bangkok
. Formerly Programme Manager ICITAP, Belgrade and
Skopje
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Parliamentary Elections Security Training Project
OSCE Spillover Mission in Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
2002
. Developed and delivered a train-the-trainers programme for six multi-
discipline teams of national agencies and international monitors
responsible for preparing Public Peace & Order Police who would
provide nation-wide security during the parliamentary elections.
Previous parliamentary and presidential election campaigns had
resulted in killings and injuries in clashes between security forces
and demonstrators.
. Led one of the six teams during a 12-day period when 4,000 police
officers were prepared to respect international human rights and the
intent, as well as the letter-of-the-law, of the Parliamentary
Elections Statute. The result, Macedonia's first violence free
parliamentary elections and certified as 'free & fair' by
international monitors. This legacy continued for the parliamentary
elections of 2006.
o Referee: Carr Trevillian, Asst. Director ICITAP, Washington
. Formerly OSCE Deputy Head, Police - Macedonia &
Deputy Director, Kosovo Police School.
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Chief Instructor, Police Management Training Project.
UNTAET
East Timor
April - November 2001
. Chief Instructor for Advanced Leadership Training and Instructor
Development at the UN administered police academy for the newly formed
3,000-member Timor Leste Police Service (ETPS)
. Introduced core leadership training to nearly 300 candidates: Senior
Management; Strategic Planning; Curriculum Development; Instructor
Development; and, Basic Supervision.
. Developed and delivered a curriculum which prepared the first
generation of police executives, senior managers and leaders for the
ETPS. This included the designing of an innovative and culturally
appropriate board game that was introduced during the Strategic
Planning course.
. Incorporated a project-based learning experience in Management &
Leadership courses that required small groups to build containers
intended to protect an egg dropped from a height of 3 meters. This
experience enabled candidates to meet curriculum goals of problem
solving, decision-making, sharing best practices, diversity, co-
operation and teamwork. Innovative experiential learning games were
found to be invaluable in reducing the individual's fear of failure
and enabled them to learn from group mistakes. It also encouraged
initiative building both individual and group confidence through the
recognition and celebration of successes throughout the learning
experience. These successes were critical, as the overwhelming
majority of management candidates had no leadership experience to draw
upon. .
. Employed story-telling techniques during Supervisory / Leadership
training courses to help the police candidates better understand
themselves and their culture through shared heritage and social
experience. Police leadership candidates were unaware of the
anthropological and social history of the people of East Timor. The
police as an institution had no tradition of service and its
membership lacked a sense of social and cultural history of their
people. Learning about their history and sharing in stories about the
heroic acts by those experienced police colleagues who had intervened
to protect the community, gave them greater pride in themselves and
the newly established police service. The police had been viewed as
an instrument of suppression during 'Indonesian times', a period of 25
years of brutal occupation.
Eighty percent of the infrastructure in East Timor had been destroyed
in 1999 before the intervention of INTERFET and then, UN peacekeepers.
. Referee: Dr. Jim Roberts, Ph D, Programme Manager ICITAP,
Pakistan & formerly ICITAP East Timor *******@*****.***
Canadian Contingent Commander & Curriculum Development Specialist
OSCE Mission
Kosovo
September 1999- July 2000
. Within 2 months of the cessation of NATO bombing campaign and
the withdrawal of Serbian security forces, the Kosovo Police
Service began recruiting and training. Despite the dismal
working and living conditions, a lack of training equipment, led
an international police team during the development and
implementation of a basic training curriculum suited to policing
in a democratic society. The UN / OSCE commitment to integrate
former Kosovo Liberation Army into the police and defence corps
resulted in 50% of students having been KLA members.
"Right now, the Kosovo Police School is the jewel in the crown
of OSCE's efforts thus far in Kosovo. We cannot let it fail for
lack of support. If this school is going to succeed as an
institution, we need to provide not only the instructors - but
also the students with a safe, livable and lasting facility.
Neither staff nor students should be operating in unheated rooms
without even reliable drinking water."
Ambassador David T. Johnson
To Permanent Council, Vienna
December 15th 1999
. By the end of June 2000 the school had graduated 1,380 students
of diverse ethnic background. Many of these students had to be
escorted daily by unarmed police school instructors to their
NATO protected enclaves. Graduation ceremonies during the first
year were held at secure sites protected by a cordon of NATO
troops. The training curriculum recognized that 50% of the
initial year's intake included those who were to be integrated
in the police service from among the thousands of demobilized
and disarmed former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. This
represents a remarkable 'peace building' achievement in the
immediate aftermath of a decade of brutal oppression by a
nationalist regime in Belgrade.
o Referee: Nicolas Waterschoot, Police Superintendent, The
Netherlands Formerly Chief of Curriculum
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Curriculum Development Specialist
Bi Lateral Mission to Haiti
October - December 1997
. At the National Police Academy, Port-au-Prince, designed and
documented a student assessment system with measurable training
standards for incorporation into the nine month competency-based,
Basic Police Training Programme. HNPolice training and the National
Academy involved bi-lateral programmes with Canadian, US and French
collaboration, part of joint UN/OAS endeavour.
. Haiti remains the poorest and most dangerous nation in the hemisphere,
notwithstanding extensive international aid and development
programmes. The Haitian National Police, as a national institution,
was created and developed under UN and bi-lateral agreements,
including critical Canadian participation, during the late 90's. At
that time the Haitian National Police became the lone functional state
institution within Haiti. It remained so until the UN mission mandate
was allowed to expire by an inattentive, dysfunctional and corrupt
Haitian government.
o Referee: Gary Bennett, former Director of Police Academy
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Retired as Superintendent of Police (Commander} - 1963 to 1997
. 30 + years service which included 9 years as Regional Police
Commander responsible for all federal, provincial and municipal
police services initially in sub-arctic Labrador and, lastly,
central Newfoundland. Responsibilities included 17 subordinate
unit commanders, regional communications centre, police helicopter,
patrol vessels, major crimes unit, Polygraph unit, Customs/Excise
unit, International Drug unit, Federal Enforcement unit &
International Airport Policing detachment, among others. Operating
budget of $13 million exclusive of salaries.
. 7 years experience managing Comprehensive Internal Audit function
of police services at both provincial and national level.
. 7 years experience in Training & Development included duties as
full-time instructor at basic training facility, followed by
service as training researcher and curriculum developer.
Additional responsibility for 2 years as Adult Educational
Psychologist for 17,000 member police service.
. 7 years operational experience in both uniform and plain clothes
investigative and enforcement units.
Education: BA (Psych & Soc), Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ontario
Executive Development Diploma, Canadian Police College, Ottawa,
ON
Awards:
. During the fall of 2004, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Republic of
Macedonia, presented Supt Bourne an award of merit at a reception of
200 police, ministry officials, international police representatives,
and ambassadors. The award was in appreciation of Supt Bourne's
development of the self-directed Community Police Training Curriculum
(ICITAP) and his personal guidance of more that 350 police officers
through the curriculum's competency-based training standards. This
was the only presentation to an international police member during
2004 by the Minister, and it was done in the presence of the US
Ambassador to Macedonia. The Minister's award also recognized Canada
and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as role models for Macedonia to
emulate.
"An innovative, highly respected "agent for change" in the reformation
of policing services in post-conflict states, Supt. Bourne continues
to be sought out for his leadership, vision, teaching and mentoring
skills with international peace support operations in sub-Sahara
Africa, south-east Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. His visionary
leadership has contributed to the development of democratic
institutions and the rule of law; and have reaffirmed Canada's
international reputation as a society that embraces diversity,
respects human rights, protects its most vulnerable groups and
empowers its communities."
HONOURS
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem -
Commander
Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal
UN Mission in Kosovo Medal
UN Transitional Administration in East Timor Medal
UN/AU Mission in Darfur Medal
NATO Non-Article 5 - ISAF (Afghanistan)
European Security & Defense Policy Service Medal (Darfur) (Afghanistan)
125th Anniversary of Confederation of Canada Medal
Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal
RCMP Long Service Medal
Service Medal of the Order of St John
African Union Service Medal (AMIS - Darfur)
References:
Gary Bennett Mario Karl Nobin
Program Manager Deputy Commissioner
ICITAP, US Embassy, Mauritius Police
Service
Bangkok, Thailand **********@*****.***
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EB (Blair) Taker
Sydney, NS
Canada
Tel. 01-902-***-****
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