VICTORIA (CP) -Robin Bourne, British Columbia’s top cop. has a poster tacked to his office wall headlined “Wanted — To Leave British Columbia.” The poster has a picture of Bourne and asks “Why Is He Here?” “Why am I here?’’ asks Bourne, B.C.’s new director of police services. "It’s the obvious question.” Why did he take a relatively tame bureaucratic job after 10 years in a hush-hush and controversial federal job in security and counter-intelligence in Ottawa? He says he wants to improve the province’s policing and that his days in the security and counterespionage game are behind him. The poster, which a civil liberties group plastered on lampposts and walls in Vancouver and Victoria, questions Bourne’? qualifications and suitability for the Victoria job in light of his past record as a domestic spy and chaser of subversives. In his Victoria job as assistant deputy minister in the attorney-general’s department, Bourne aims to co-ordinate the activities of all police departments in B.C. That includes everything from watching the negotiations for a new RCMP funding contract with the federal government to setting province-wide standards for police training and creating a police force for the instant town of Tumbler Ridge in the northeast B.C. coal fields. In short. Bourne, 51. son of a former Shanghai police commissioner, has been hired to explain to the police how the government works and to explain to the government what the police want and need. Bourne has been travelling the province since he started April 1, talking to police chiefs, riding in police cruisers and visiting facilities like Vancouver’s hotel for transient youth. He reckons he’s “still in the honeymoon phase” with police chiefs, but has to convince them fast that “I’m not just another level of bureaucracy, that I’m the person they can pick up their phones and talk to.” He says the poster and accompanying "fact sheet” have worked in part to his advantage, because they “helped me gain very quickly the support of the police community.” Bourne, a persuasive Citizen Prince George — Monday, August 17, 1981 talker, is taking the flak in low-key fashion. He acknowledges that his previous job as assistant deputy minister (police and security) with the federal solicitor-general’? department was “far removed from the problems of municipal policing.” iUPREMl JMUFFLEI FORT GEORGE ALIGNMENT Corner of Quoentwoy and 969 Hamilton St. 563-4440 And he agrees that the public should be wary of any nonelected public official who has a sensitive job created through departmental reorganiza- tion and not by an act of the legislature. But he insists that his career as a counterspy has been exaggerated by the news media and opposition parties. He says it happened almost by accident during the mad scramble by federal authorities to deal with the October crisis of 1970. when units of the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped a British diplomat and a Quebec cabinet minister within a few weeks. Bourne was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Forces — an artillery officer who “liked to jump out of planes, a real bow-and-arrow soldier” - when he was selected in 1968 to participate in a program to let *_ GLASS npf INSURANCE \y REPLACEMENTS all I.C.B.C. claims handled quickly and efficiently windshields commercial glass residential glass NORTHERN PACIFIC GLASS LTD. 2165 Ogilvie 564-2844 younger military officers work in a government ministry. His first posting was as an external affairs and defence aide in the privy council office, but he was quickly assigned to a series of committees working closely with the federal cabinet on FLQ "crisis management.” His key task was to set up and operate a domestic intelligence service to keep an eye on alleged dissidents. including trade unions and native and student groups. Much of the information came from RCMP and military intelligence sources, and Bourne's 22-member group was a conduit to the cabinet for an RCMP list of names — later called a blacklist by the opposition - of government bureaucrats allegedly involved in an "extraparliamentary opposition” to overthrow the government. econd Edition THE NEW USED BOOK STORE Used Books, Comics, Magazines, Records — Buy. Sell. Trade — NOW OPEN — LONG PLAYING RECORD ROOM Choose from current top 20 Pop and Country & Western artists will be available. Inquire about our 36 HOUR EXCHANGE PROGRAM Coming Soon — VIDEO & V.H.F. 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By-Law No. 430 and Community Plumvng Area No. 7 Regulations By-law No. 480 also: (a) is the legal implementation that follows the Tabor Lake -Stone Creek Official Settlement Plan; (b) zones and rezones land in the area covered by the Settlement Plan as set out in that Plan; (c) repeals part of Community Planning Arec No. 7 Regulations, os they apply to land covered by that Plan; (d) adds the following new zones; Commercial V (Service Commercial) Commercial VI (General Hotel Commercial) Commercial VII (limited Highway Commercial) Industrial V (limited Service Industrial) (e) re-designates the Development Permit areas already in existence within that Settfbment Plan orea. Presentation from oil interested persons will be heard at the Hearing Copies of By-law No. 480 may be inspected at the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George office, 3 I I -1 7 I 7 Third Avenue, Prince George from 8 45 a.m. to I 2 noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday statutory holidays excepted. 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