JUNE/JULY 2012 2 BLUE LINE MAGAZINE June / July 2012 Volume 24 Number 6 6 Features 6 A commitment to a higher standard OPC 50th Anniversary 16 Instantaneous & overwhelming Halton Regional Police learn some lessons in media control 20 Blue Line Trade Show in Print 22 Realigning the flow London Police build in the future 28 Law enforcement west of the rockies Part 2 Departments 46 Blue Links Ad Directory 32 Deep Blue - Our stalwart ability to resist change 35 Dispatches 16 27 Letters 44, 45 Market Place 5 Publisher’s Commentary - A public trust... a surviving thread 36 Technology - End of life digital data security Case Law 39 Information & observation provide grounds for arrest 40 Corroboration and quality of tip justifies warrant 20 42 Honest belief not enough to justify arrest BLUE LINE MAGAZINE 3 JUNE/JULY 2012 JUNE/JULY 2012 4 BLUE LINE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER’S COMMENTARY Blue Line by Morley Lymburner Magazine Inc. PUBLISHER Morley S. Lymburner - [email protected] A public trust... GENERAL MANAGER a surviving thread Mary K. Lymburner - [email protected] Celebrating the Ontario Police College’s brought on by over-imbibing during the SENIOR EDITOR Mark Reesor - [email protected] 50th anniversary brought back many memories hockey game – would be a challenge. Even of my days at that venerable institution. I worse was the strange red spots over my legs CREATIVE DIRECTOR was one of 32 freshly sworn members of the and arms. This was my rude introduction E. Jolene Dreja - [email protected] Metropolitan Toronto Police Force sent to take (and eventual tolerance of) bed bugs. “Just basic training alongside several hundred other bang yer bed before you crawl in at night,” CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ontario cops. It was both a culture shock and the night watchman sagely advised. “They’ll Mike Novakowski an experience that never quite leaves you. take off for the night.” Never was sure if it Mark Giles The OPC was made mandatory for all worked but there did seem to be fewer bites Robert Lunney Ontario officers about ten years before my when I complied. James Clark arrival. A rather optimistically described One day I was pulled from class and taken Dorothy Cotton conversion of a Second World War Air Force to the college director’s office. As I entered Dave Brown training base, its numerous wooden aircraft his office I noted there was a large quantity Tom Rataj hangers and several “H” hut barracks still held of cash stacked neatly on his desk. They do together, in a fashion, 30 or so years after being periodic locker checks, he advised, and would AFFILIATIONS constructed. The barracks had two long 32-bed very much like to know what I was doing with International Association of halls linked in the middle with washroom and so much money. Law Enforcement Planners shower facilities. It was my accumulated pay cheques. I had Canadian Advertising Rates Data Before leaving Toronto’s college we were no bills to pay and there was no rent or charge International Police Association warned the OPC overfeeds officers, doesn’t for meals at the college so I had simply tucked The Canadian Press Newswire have enough physical education and knows pay envelopes into my locker each pay day for Access Copyright nothing about proper drill procedure. The old the last two months. salt instructors warned us to run extra hard and Why don’t you just deposit the money in expect re-training when we returned. Few of your bank account, the director wondered. 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He handed me a pillow, of age – the opening of a new world, a new P: 905 640 3048 F: 905 640 7547 sheet and scratchy grey blanket and directed lifestyle and experiences which I had never [email protected] me to one of the 64 tube frame institutional dreamed of having. My life and the land would beds with a mattress rolled up at one end. After change once more as I returned to my home PRINTED IN CANADA setting things up and placing my suitcase on police service after basic training, and lessons top, I headed for the sound of a playoff hockey came quickly over the next few years. ISSN# 08478538 game – but not before being rather sternly Gratitude for lessons learned makes a warned that lights go out at 10. person willing to give back. The feeling of Blue Line Magazine was established in 1988 as an independent I directed a large number of my strag- responsibility to in-turn teach younger officers publication to inform, entertain, connect and educate those involved gling compatriots to the barrack’s troll as I was made far easier by the examples so many in the law enforcement profession. With no direct control from an enforcement agency, its opinions do not necessarily reflect those headed for the television. After the game I others showed me over the years. Instructing of any government or law enforcement agency. re-entered the barracks to see many people others is far more than a job – it is a public The authors, advisors, and publisher accept no liability whatsoever milling about, setting up beds and arranging trust and a surviving thread which leads from for any injuries to person(s) or property resulting from application luggage. As promised, the lights went out right past generations to the society of tomorrow. of adoption of anything presented in this magazine. Readers are cautioned and advised that articles presented herein are edited at 10, prompting many oaths and not-so-tender During this 50th year of the Ontario Police and supplied for your personal awerness and should not be used language as everyone scrambled to find their College one must admire the dedication and for further actions until appropriate guidance is received from a beds in a mostly darkened room. drive of its staff, directors and instructors. supervisor, Crown Attorney or other persons in authority. The old gent at the desk turned on his They have become committed to a higher All material submitted for publication becomes property of Blue flashlight, yelling that it was sack time and standard by continuously refining the skills Line Magazine Inc. unless arrangements have been made with the publisher prior to publishing. everyone had better get themselves in order. necessary to maintain a public trust. I needed no such warning as I was already in © 2011 All articles are protected by copyright. No part of this publication may be repoduced or transmitted in any form or means, the sack and ready to drift off. electronic or mechanical, (including photocopying and recording or Morning brought the realization that sleep- by any information storage or retrieval system), without prior permis- sion. Permission to reprint may be obtained in advance from Access ing with 60 other men – and their predilections Copyright 1-800-893-5777. to snoring, insomnia, flatulence and incontinence BLUE LINE MAGAZINE 5 JUNE/JULY 2012 COMMITMENT TO A HIGHER STANDARD by Carla Garrett victory in Europe and Japan. The young recruit vividly remembers his Nestled between Aylmer and Springfield quarters in the old barrack huts. There was a on 168 acres of picturesque countryside, the bed and small work area attached to a six-foot Ontario Police College (OPC) has been a home metal room divider. Thirty-two men stayed in away from home for every police officer in the a single room. province since 1962. Any recruit will tell you “We had to keep telling ourselves that we it’s no five-star hotel, but its professionalism were the first class ever and we had to be patient and quality of training has never wavered. and a little flexible to the trials and tribulations The OPC is celebrating 50 years of train- we would encounter,” says Forbes. ing excellence. The college in the middle of The first class arrived in January 1963. In a cornfield is the envy of many. The unique that first year, 654 recruits were trained and 737 concept of a centralized police college has set experienced officers went for refresher training. a new standard for police training throughout throughout the campus. The food was “horrible” and the remote the world. “It’s their college,” says Stephens. “Anyone location just kilometers out of Aylmer offered “Ontario is very well served by what we who has been through here has an affinity for little entertainment, but that didn’t stop recruits have here,” says OPC Acting Director Bill the college.” from making their own fun. Stephens. “The college has a reputation of A number of initiatives have been planned “We weren’t always doing positive things excellence throughout the world.” to celebrate this milestone.