Friday, February 5, 2010

The 105 VCA Graduation


Today the 105 VCA Graduated 26 new correctional officers. They will be reporting for duty at the following worksites. SSCF, SESCF, NWSCF, MVRCF, NERCF, NSCF, CRCF, and Brattleboro P&P.

The Keynote speaker was State Representative Alice Emmons. Both Secratry Hofmann and Commissioner Andrew Pallito spoke at the graduation. The Class Speaker was CO I Robert Dunham.

Robert Kupec, the Facility Executive, administered the professional oath and the Honor Guard opened and closed the Graduation with our national Colors.

The National Anthem was sung by Jennie Holloway and William Cathcart was the master of ceremonies.

The class asked that we remember our DOC colleagues that are currently deployed. May they return to us safely, and they extend their thanks to the friends and family of our deployed staff for their sacrafice and support they provide.

Here are a couple of photos from the class.

There will be some video from the graduation to follow, so stay tune.

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Waterbury, Vermont, United States
I have served as a Vermont Correctional Academy coordinator for training development since 2001. I am responsible for training-the-trainer core competency training, Facility Training Officer programs and also serve as liaison to our security and supervision unit for training dealing with hostage negotiation, emergency preparedness, and the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT). I graduate from the Vermont Correctional Academy in 1993, and previously served as a Correctional Officer I, Correctional Officer II, and the local training coordinator at the former Woodstock Regional Correctional Facility. I also part of the Emergency Preparedness team. I am involved in a range of educational development and training functions for the Department of Corrections and provides Academy instruction on emergency preparedness, self-harm, suicide prevention and use of force.