At the time of the April 29 accident, he was days away from completing the one-year probationary period for new supervisors.
The selection procedure required applicants to complete a probationary semester concluded by 2 days of examinations.
Graduates would then complete a probationary year, "working as social workers, with protected workloads and with regular supervision", explains Orme.
Each volunteer must take a four-day course, complete a probationary period of six months, then sign on for at least a year.
They then have to complete a probationary teaching post, which takes one and a half years.
Mr. Patton said the two officers, who both had just completed their probationary period at the time, claimed they helped Mr. Cook use the inhaler.
John Galmon, 26, and Spencer Sutton, 24, both rookie cops who hadn't yet completed their probationary period, were off-duty at the time of the incident, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the Mid-City Yacht Club, a neighborhood sports bar.
But he was dismissed before completing his probationary training, and had not listed the job when he applied for work in New Jersey.
By imposing such a lower boundary on tenure we can eliminate most of those employees from the sample who have not yet completed their probationary period and may only be able to make limited use of their vacation entitlement.
According to the survey carried out this autumn, 35.4% of teachers who had just completed their probationary year found a full-time permanent teaching post, compared with 20.9% last year.
