More than one in five of Canada’s border guards are failing weapons training, according to their union.
Moran said the union was concerned the CBSA was simply replicating the RCMP recruit training and compressing it into a much shorter time span.
“I was extremely concerned when I learned that while the RCMP spreads out its overall firearms training over their entire 16-week recruit training program prior to testing its younger recruit force, they are testing CBSA officers after having compressed the same demanding training over a mere eight days,” wrote Moran.
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I am actually suprised the number isn't higher given that fact that all the old timers are from back in the day when the agency was considered a tax collecting department. I guess they probably aren't sending those people right now and are waiting for them to retire. I don't think it is that bad for trying to train these people in 8 days which normaly takes 16 weeks. They either need to spreed the training time out over several weeks or let these people take the test over if they fail.
Your thoughts?