What does it take to be an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police? A very special feature is in the works here at Yorkton This Week.
YTW journalist Cory Carlick has teamed up with the RCMP Depot Division to tackle the physical test. What's more - as an athlete, he isn't getting a shortened or easy version of the PARE exam. It's the full, real, test.
He's expected to pass with the same standards of an RCMP cadet, and will be evaluated alongside actual Depot cadets.
His training is being filmed, and is currently undergoing extensive conditioning at the University of Regina Faculty of Kinesiology's renowned Dr. Paul Schwann Centre of Applied Health and Research Centre's officially sanctioned RCMP training program.
Since he will be given the actual physical test, alongside actual RCMP cadets, he is expected to meet the same standards as any RCMP officer, he will be physically training for upwards of 18 weeks to meet the RCMP's standards.
Filming began June 11th at the Depot division, where he took his first run of the test. He began training with the University of Regina shortly afterward. After RCMP/POPAT U of R trainers Erin Tyson, Patrick Bernat and Carmen Agar determine he can clock at three minutes and 30 seconds on the training floor, he will be sent back to Depot for his final passing evaluation.
Like every RCMP officer, he will have to do it under four minutes -- with a target of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. And he'll have to do it in front of the entire RCMP cadet troop at Depot in Regina.
The series will be published in Yorkton This Week and in videos online, with periodic updates as his training progresses.
