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Monday, November 2, 2015

Police Technology Hypertext Narrative

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It all started like this.

I just finished my fifth secondary year and it`s time to go to college. I want to go in Police Technology.

Choice 1: I go to College Maisonneuve.
Choice 2: I go to Ahuntsic College.

Scene 1.

I chose College Maisonneuve because it's the nearest college to my house that offer the Police Technology program. When I arrived at the College on the first day, I saw this awesome music band.

Choice 1: I listen to their music for 2 minutes and I continue my path.
Choice 2: I begin to sing with them.
Choice 3: I continu my way to my first class.

Scene 2.

I listen only 2 minutes of their songs because it wasn't really my type of music. Now there's only 3 minutes before my first class where I'll learn how to arrest a criminal but I need to go to the bathroom.
Choice 1: I go to my class because I don't want to be late.
Choice 2: I go to the bathroom.

Scene 3.

I don't want to be late for my first class so I hurry up. When I enter the class, my professor tell me that I'm late. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice.

Choice 1: I confront him.
Choice 2: I sit at my place and apologize because I'm late.

Scene 4.

I disagree with him because I'm not late, his clock is broke. I decide to leave the program and I continue my College path in Natural Science.

Start again: Go to the beginning for more paths in Police Technology.

Scene 5.

I don't want to have a bad start with my teacher and I know he can give me an internship at a police station. Two weeks later, I'm at my internship!

Start again: Game over. Go to the beginning.

Scene 6.

I really need to go to the bathroom and I will be late. After I ask myself if I skip the class because I'm late.

Choice 1: I go to my class.
Choice 2: I don't go to my class.

Scene 7.

I can't skip my first class. After that event, I never skiped a class again and now, I just finished my Police Technology program and I'm waiting to go to Nicolet (National School of Quebec Police).

Start again: It's finish here, go to the beginning.

Scene 8.

I don't go to my class because I'm late and it's my fault. After the course, I explain why I was late to my teacher and everything was fine.

Start again: This path ends here, go to the beginning.

Scene 9.

I like what they are playing so I join them. After two songs, I look at my watch and I only have 2 minutes to go to my first class and the teacher will do our background check.

Choice 1: I can't miss my background check and I want straight A's so I go to my class.
Choice 2: I join their amazing band and I start a singing career.

Scene 10.

My grades are more important than playing with this band. It was a good choice because right now I'm searching a job as a police officer.

Choice 1: I apply in a private security company.
Choice 2: I apply at Laval police service.

Scene 11.

I need to gain some experience in security that's why I apply to a private company. After two years of hard work, I'm working for the Laval police station and I made a 25 years career.

Start again: This path is over, go to the beginning!

Scene 12.

I love Laval and this is why I apply at their city. Unfortunately they can't hire me because I don't have enough experience. Now I'm working in a dead-end job.

Start again: I fail at becoming a police officer, try again at the beginning!

Scene 13.

I join their group because music is my life!. After 6 months of work, we are lauching our first album but how we name it?

Choice 1: "Police Station" !
Choice 2: "The firefighter is on fire" !

Scene 14.

We all love the police and this is why we chose that name. The album is a succes! I made some money and right now I finally started my Police Technology program at Maisonneuve.

Start again: I made some money but I didn't achieve my goal! Go to the beginning to start again.

Scene 15.

In the group, we all love firefighter. Unfortunaly the album is a total failure. I decide to continue my Police Technology program. 4 years later, by the bias of a friend, I'm working at the SPVM.

Start again: Go to the beginning to achieve a new path!

Scene 16.

The band looks to be nice but I want straight'as so I can't be late. It was a good choice because right now I have the best grades of my program, but I need to make a choice. I can go to Nicolet or earn a great wage in a private security company.

Choice 1: I go to Nicolet.
Choice 2: I chose to make plenty of pennies and go to pivate security!

Scene 17.

I want to achieve my goal, so I go to Nicolet. I just finished Nicolet and I can work in two city as a police officer: Quebec and Montreal. Where should I go?

Choice 1: I go to Quebec.
Choice 2: I go to Montreal.

Scene 18.

I want to go to Quebec, even if it's far away from my home, I'm in search of adventures. Unfortunatly, after two years of services, I had a car accident in my police car. I can't walk any more and my career is over.

Start again: My career is over, go to the beginning!

Scene 19.

I stay in Montreal, I live here and I know the city. After my first day, I arrest the perpetrator of a crime and after five years I became a sergeant and ended my career at this position. Also, the uniform I awesome! I love my pepper spray!

Start again: Wouhou, I achieve my goal! Go to the beginning for another path.

Scene 20.

I want to be rich, that's why I chose this job. After two months of working there, I realize that more often than not, this job is boring. Do I quit the job?

Choice 1: Yes.
Choice 2: No.

Scene 21.

There's a lack of action in this job. I apply to Nicolet again and I'm pumped up to be a police officer.

Start again: I'm close to be a police officer. Go to the beginning and try again.

Scene 22.

I'm more attract in money than everything so I keep my job. I finish this dead-end job at 55 five years old, richer than ever.

Start again: Ok, I'm rich but I'm not a police officer. Go to the beginning again.

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Scene 23.

I want to go to that college, I think it will be a fun experience. After only a week, I have 10 homework to do, what should I do?

Choice 1: Do them!
Choice 2: Pfff! Homework is nothing, I won't do them.
Choice 3: Oh god! It's too much homework for me, I decide to change my school program.

Scene 24.

I really want some good grades so I can be in the firt cohort in Nicolet. This was the right choice because I just finished Nicolet! It was an invaluable experience! Congrats to me! In which city should I apply?

Choice 1: Blainville city.
Choice 2: Terrebonne city.

Scene 25.

Blainville is one of my favorite cities. I'm happy in my choice because I start my first day of work tomorrow. What should I do tonight, before my first day?

Choice 1: Go to bed earlier than usual.
Choice 2: I can do a little party at home to celebrate the fact that I'm engaged.

Scene 26.

I don't want to be tired so I go to bed right now. It was a great choice because I'm arresting someone who wants to steal an old lady. I'm now protecting the crime scene for the court. The city thanks me for my service and every police officer respect me!

Start again: Write a sentence that will take the reader to the beginning again.

Scene 27.

I want to celebrate this!. The next morning, I woke up, and I look at my clock....oh no! I'm late for my first day! What a bad idea the party was. I run to the police station and my boss tell me: You just been fired, you're late.

Start again: Oups. I'm no longer a police officer, try again.

Scene 28.

I love adventure and I don't know Terrebonne city, that's why I want to go there. When I apply, they tell me that I don't have enough experience for the job, what should I do?
Choice 1: Wait 6 months and try again.
Choice 2: Work in private security for 6 months than apply again.

Scene 29.

I want to work there. I'm at my second try and they are telling me the same thing! I'm failing to be a police officer and I think I will be in a depression.

Start again: You did not achieve my only dream, try again at the top!

Scene 30.

I don't have enough experience, I need to earn some! That was the right choice. I'm now working for the Terrebonne police and I'm a Captain!

Start again: Good job! Try some more at the top.

Scene 31.

I don't want to do these things, I want to have fun! This was a terrible decision of myself. I failed my first session. What should I do now?

Choice 1: Work hard to succeed my next session.
Choice 2: I drop school.

Scene 32.

I want to be a police officer so bad, I can't fail my session again. This was a great idea because I'm finishing Nicolet right now. Where should I work?

Choice 1: I try to work for Montreal.
Choice 2: I go to private security.

Scene 33.

Montreal is a big city, working there should be a great experience. Good news: They need me as a police officer! At my first day, I used my handcuffs to arrest a man who did sexual harassment at his job: I'm happy to stop him!

Start again: You did it! I'm a police officer. Go to the beginning for a new path.

Scene 34.

I need experience to be a great police officer, that's why I want to be in private security. Ten years later from that decision, I'm in Canada's secret services learning the office politics at my first day of work!

Start again: I'm a secret agent! That's awesome! Go back to the beginning for a new exciting path!

Scene 35.

I can't handle all my homework and I want to make money right now. Where should I work? Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice.

Choice 1: McDonald.
Choice 2: Subway.

Scene 36.

I love to eat McDonald's food but this was a dead-end job for me and I need to get back to school.

Start again: What a failure am I! Try to give me a better futur and start again.

Scene 37.

Subway's sandwiches are the best. My boss here at the restaurant propose me an intership in a factory, in order to learn mechanical skills. I'm now working at that factory. I do a lot of overtime and I'm rich!

Start again: I may have a great income but I'm not a man of the law (police officer). Start again!

Scene 38.

I'm not ready yet for all the homework I have to do so I want to change my school program. I want to be in accounting, where should I go?

Choice 1: Stay to Ahuntsic College.
Choice 2: Switch to College LaSalle.

Scene 39.

I love Ahuntsic College. I just finish my years here at the College. What should I do?

Choice 1: Continue in the financial field at university.
Choice 2: Go back to Police Technology.

Scene 40.

Maths aren't that bad and I love maths and accounting, that's why I want to go to university. Ten years just pasted and I'm a high rank worker for Apple. I love my job!

Start again: Yahou! I love the job I'm doing. Go to the beginning to try other ways.

Scene 41.

Be a police officer is my biggest dream. I'm working for the SPVM and I succeed the background check. After only one year working for the SPVM (Montreal polices services), I'm already very good at being a police officer and I can arrest the best criminals in order to put them in jail!

Start again: Hourra! I'm a police officer! Go back to the beginning for new interesting path.

Scene 42.

I want some fresh air, that's why I want to go to LaSalle College. There is a vacant position in the program, I'm happy! Finally it's the worst choice of my life, I hate it there. What should I do?

Choice 1: Go back to Ahuntsic College.
Choice 2: Drop school.

Scene 43.

This was a mistake of mine, I start again in police thechnology. Hourra! Ten years from then, I'm a detective for the Sûreté du Québec!

Start again: You succeed. Try some new path at the beginning.

Scene 44.

I drop school, I have enough. I'm now working in an Ikea and my boss is an ex-police officer and he's helping me to get back on track to achieve my dream. He wants to give me an intership in Laval police services!

Start again: You almost achieve my dream! You can start again at the beginning.

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Hypertext narrative template for digital ESL literacy

This hypertext narrative fiction template was developed by Bokomaru Publications and checked for common ESL grammar errors using an online ESL grammar checker and checked for field-related vocabulary using an b-block ESL vocabulary checker.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Police Technology Glossary

I study in the police technology program. We learn communications strategy, self-defense techniques, how to arrest a criminal, how to use the law (Criminal Code, Highway Safety Code, etc), how our justice system works and everything we need to know about the police officer duty. The formation prepare us to protect the life and the public safety and to protect the private property in order to be the best police officer we can become. Here's a glossary about some technial terms that we use.

Accused
A person or persons charged with a crime.

Alibi: A form of defense used in criminal procedure wherein the accused attempts to prove that he or she was in some other place at the time the alleged offense was commited.

Arrest: To seize and hold under the authority of law.

Bulletproof vest: A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.

Cayenne pepper: A instrument use by police officer which contains cayenne pepper powder.

Clue: Sign showing the propable existence of someting that is on a crime scene and is related to crime.

Coroner: Investigation judge charged in suspicious deaths.

Crime scene: A location where a crime took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidene is retrieved by law enforcement personnel, crime scene investigators or in rare circumstances, forensic scentist.

Evidence: The available body of facts or information indicating wheter a belief or proposition is true or valid.

Exhibit: A document or other object produced in court as evidence.

Gun: A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.

Hit-and-run: Denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicule involved does not stop.

Judge: An official person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

Lawyer: Someone who makes practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who retain them to perform legal services.

Pepper spray: A lachrymatory agent (a chemical compound that irritates the eyes to cause tears, pain and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, crowd control, and personal self-defense, including defense against dogs and bears.
Police dog: A dog, often an Alsatian, trained to help the police, as in tracking.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Police Officer

I study in the Police Technology program at the Ahuntsic College to become a police officer in the province of Quebec. In this three years of training, we learn everything about the police officer job and how to do it. For example, we are studying the Criminal Code, Civil Code, Highway Safety Code and we are doing simulations of interventions that will happen to us later to know what we need to do to help the citizens. We are also learning how to do some physical technique to immobilize and arrest criminals. The formation gives us what we need to be the best police officer. The aim of police in Quebec is to protect life and public safety and to ensure the protection of private property and we are learning how to do it. I have chosen this website below because it summarizes not only a day in the life of a police officer but also their career in general. I will summarize this website and make some links with the police in Quebec.

The website says that the police form comes in many ways such as sheriffs, detectives, state troopers and police officer. It's really relevant of the police worldwide because in a police station, there are different grades that a police officer can have. It's also true in Quebec, where you can find a commander, some sergeants, lieutenants, captains and many more. The website also says that the main goal of the police officers is to keep the public order and to protect citizens life and their property. It's the same goal as the police in Quebec. My chosen website also relates the stress that a police officer may have because of the pressure on him. He has to maintain the law, ensure the thrust of the citizens in the police, arrest criminal and to be the protection between a citizen and a dangerous situation. All of this is the same pressure that lives every police officer in Quebec. Finally, the website says the prerequisites to be a police officer: be in a great physical form, graduate from a police academy and pass the psychological and the physical tests. These prerequisites are the same to be a police officer in Quebec, except that in Quebec every police officer must go through Nicolet (Quebec's police academy) to become a policer officer.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

NYPD

source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/home.shtml

This is the New York City Police Department (NYPD) website. The website belongs to the City of New York and it is ruled by the City and the police department. It's for the citizens of New York or the tourists because it gives some general information about the police department. It shows their mission, how to be a police officer in New York or how to contact them. The website gives some more specific information to be alert like the crime statistics, the rewards and the wanted people, the missing person or how to prevent crime. The website also gives some information to find some services such as language access plan, permits, firearms licensing, etc. This website is related to my field of study -Police Tech- because almost every city in Quebec has a website but they're all wrote in French, that's why I chose this one. Another reason why this is related to my field of study is because the NYPD is almost the most popular police services in the world so it's interesting to examine their website.

In this video, I will do a walkthrough demonstrating how perform a specific task on the New York City Police Department website.

Monday, September 14, 2015

3 Good Reasons to Be a Police Officer in Quebec

Julius Schorzman from Wikimedia

There are plenty of jobs in the world. There are doctors, surgeons, lawyers, accountants, etc. There are also three popular jobs that involve saving the life of citizens : firefighter, paramedic and police officer. We need all these jobs and all the others who have not been mentioned above in order to be a society. Which job will you choose? Police officer is one of the best job that exist. Here's a list of the three best reasons to be a Police Officer in Quebec (Quebec is one of the 10 provinces in Canada).

1. Help Citizens

In Quebec, the first task to any Police Officer is to help the citizens. It's the first reason on my list because officers are the protection of society and it is such a great feeling to know that you changed the day of someone by helping that person. For example, a citizen may have lost his cellphone and it can be the worst thing for him. Taking the time to help him and find his cellphone can mean the world for him. Police Officer can do many other things to help the population. One of them is to respond to the distress call of the population and to go directly helping them. It can be to stop a fight between two citizens, arrest a criminal, securize someone who has been robbed or even saving the life of someone. Another way to help the population is when a police officer patrols a neighborhood and a citizen ask for the help of the officer. The officer can meet him and help him directly, for example by helping someone who as a conflict with a neighbor. There's a third way to help the population. This one is more general because it is the power of a police officer to arrest and apply the law, for example, the Canadian Criminal Code. It helps the whole population because when an officer arrest someone who does bad and illegal things such as driving under the influence of alchocol, the danger connected to this person for society decrease. In my example, when an officer stops someone for drunk driving, it helps the whole population because that person could have killed someone. That's why helping citizens is my number one reason to be a police officer in Quebec.

2. The diversity of the profession

In Quebec, policeman are doing different things. In a day, they can put handcuffs on a criminal, then go to the court to present evidences to a lawyer and after that, drive for one hour in their police car, waiting to have an appeal. All this, and even more, can happen in a day of a police officer. Also, in their career, they can take several paths. They can decide to stay on patrol or try to be an investigator, a sergeant, a captain, a dog-trainer and even more, be the chief of a police station. These are just a few paths that a police officer can choose to take. In fact, there's many more. That's why the diversity of the profession is my second reason to be a police officer because the job will never be boring.

3. After career advantage

In Quebec, the career of a police officer is approximately 25 to 30 years of service, in average. For example, if someone has a job in a police Department at 22 years old, this person can take his retirement at 50 years old. Retiring at age 50 is really fast, compare to other jobs. This is a short but amazing career. All police officer in Quebec, after his or her career, receive a retirement pension each year. This pension is up to 80% of the salary of the officer. It can be 50k per years. The other advantage of the after career is the fact that a police officer can have some other great jobs after their retirement. For example, a retired police officer can be a teacher in Police Technology program at Cegep. The officer can also become a security guard for mall. The early retiring, the great pension and the jobs after the career are the after career advantages, which are my third reason to be a police officer in Quebec.

In conclusion, there are three excellents reasons to be a police officer in Quebec : Help citizens, diversity of the profession and after career advantages. With all the jobs that we can do in the world, I think that police officer in Quebec is the best. I hope you enjoy reading this article.