:: DPS: Minimum 300 Signs ::

March 20, 2007 in Community, Education, Employment

DPS: Minimum 300 Signs: “Mishka Zena
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DPS: Minimum 300 Signs
Post below is a Gallaudet job ad for a security officer position:

Minimal Requirements: ‘Sign language skills or the successful completion of at least two progressive course in sign language in the first year of employment and the ability to sign and read 300 law enforcement and related signs’

300 signs? Systematic misconduct by DPS was reported the last few months. Students were roughly treated by DPS during the HMB Aborted Raid, with visual documentation of DPS’s failure to use sign language. Brentwood Gate Ambush occurred, with few students requiring medical treatment. BoT’s legal investigative team produced a report denouncing the lack of competency in sign language by DPS. Two weeks ago, one student was attacked by DPS after he objected to one DPS’s threatening use of metal baton toward students instead of communicating with them in sign language. To this day, many students continue “