Correctional Officers' Lax Supervision Incident Reported

other · Near Lantzville, BC

An account describes a day when a corrections officer, Diebold, failed to properly report head counts and was distracted playing cards while supervising inmates on a work crew near Lantzville. The incident led to a police cruiser searching for the crew and a reprimand from a senior corrections officer.

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Sources

• “Diebold failed to call in his head counts, his phone wasn’t even turned on...a police cruiser slowly approached...the Senior Corrections Officer showed up to read Diebold the riot act.” — The Islands Grapevine – December 8th, 2022 (December 8th, 2022)

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