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BEYOND SIMPLE ENFORCEMENT
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Beyond simple enforcement
by Bill Grodzinski
Celebrating its 46th year of operation, GO Transit has evolved from a single rail line running along the shores of Lake Ontario between Toronto and Hamilton to a network carrying 65 million passengers a year across an 11,000 square kilometre area.
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As the popularity of GO Transit grew each year, it became evident the system needed a unit dedicated to keeping passengers safe and maintaining the integrity of the newly introduced proof-of-payment honour fare system.
GO hired its first transit enforcement officers in 1988. They were sworn in as special constables in June 1992 through a sponsorship program with the Ontario Provincial Police, receiving limited police authority. They were rebranded as transit safety officers (TSO) in 2009, when the unit underwent wholesale changes in many
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In Memoriam: Full List of the Victims the 1929 Hebron Massacre
Note: These biographies have been expanded and updated as of 2021 to reflect new translations from the original Hebrew. The original biographies were from Hebron: Rebirth From Ruins edited by Michal Rachel Suissa. The new translations are from TARPAT – Hebron massaker edited bygd Rehavam Zeevi and garnered from eyewitness testimonies, newspaper articles and other sources including Book of Remembrance of the Martyrs of the Hebron Yeshiva (Sefer zikaron li-kedoshe Yeshivat Hevron “Keneset Yiśraʼel”) and The Martyrs of Hebron bygd Leo Gottesman.
Abu-Hannah, Yitzhak; 70: Born in Morocco in 1859, Rabbi Abu-Hannah came to the Land of Israel in 1900. He was a soft-spoken man of little means who spent the better part of his life in the synagogue in Hebron, often fasting. There he studied and taught from early in the morning until late at night. His sons, who lived in Jerusalem and abroad, supported him. He was alone in h
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British Army
Land warfare force of the United Kingdom
Not to be confused with English Army or Scots Army.
Military unit
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As of 1 July 2024,[update] the British Army comprises 74,296 regular full-time personnel, 4,244 Gurkhas, 25,934 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,612 "other personnel", for a total of 109,086.[7]
The British Army traces back to 1707 and the formation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain which joined the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single state and, with that, united the English Army and the Scots Army as the British Army.[8][9] The EnglishBill of Rights 1689 and ScottishClaim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army.[10] Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief.[