Ontario Police Differ on Application of New Act - Thomas Vares
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March 1991 EDITOR'S NOTES ne of the lead stories this O month focuses on the history of fingerprinting in Canada. This story is an updated reprint of a feature from Blue Line's March 1989 Issue (Vol.1 IN THIS ISSUE No.3) . It has been 80 years since RCMP Inspector Edward Foster first FEATURES: took the stand in a Chicago murder trial that saw the birth of a technology that revolutionized the law enforce Editor's Notes 3 ment profession. Eighty years later we Letters to the Editor 4 find the task of sorting and claSSify Editorial - Report of the Rationalization Study Team 5 ing fingerprints has been made less Finger Printing in Canada - Morley Lymburner 6 tedious by technology. The next step, scanning fingerprints, will take away J. Police Agencies Communicate - Patrick McManus 10 the messy inks that all too often Profile 22 smudge and smear. Modern tech Ontario Police Differ - Thomas Vares 23 nological applications to traditional Police or Political Control - Part 1 - Connie Boyden 24 police tasks is once again revolutioniz ing law enforcement. Up-Coming Events 27 In other stories this month we pro Product News 28 file the Halifax Police Department's Rap With Rock 30 radical break from past strategies of Blue Line Word Search 30 policing. A second story zeros in on a new multi-faceted communications NEWS: system that supports the cities of Halifax, Dartmouth and Bedford Officer Cleared in "Off-Duty" Shooting Incident 16 police departments. An excellent example of inter-force co-operation. 16 . Police Rapped for Copying Films Over the next several months you Father Charged with Daughter's Death 17 will be reading several submissions regarding the Ontario Police Services CASE LAW: Act. It is an important piece of legisla tion for the future of policing in this Waitress Victim of Entrapment 15 country and is seen by many as a Court Rules Prostitute was Entrapped 15 framework for policing in Canada. Some people feel, however, that Officers Should Amend Blood Sample Demand 18 portions of this act pose a real danger Taking Photo of Accused was Charter Breach 18 to the future style and delivery of police services. Where we have come from, where we stand today and where we are going ... read about it here in Blue Line Magazine. March 1991 3 BETTER THAN EXCELLENT of golfing cartoons as well. We may Letters to the Editor perhaps get a few when the season After 10 years with the Metro Toron draws nigh. Tony assures me that the to Police Force, I am now enjoying A LUCKY FIND letters of compliment I receive about police work in the Maritimes. Your his talents are not his relatives. Luck was with me a couple of days magazine is excellent in keeping us ago. I discovered your magazine. current with the different issues that ••• I had arrived much too early for a affect law enforcement across the READ COVER TO COVER meeting of Police Service Boards country. I am looking forward to I am writing to have you change my which was to take place at a Durham future issues. address so I do not miss a single issue Regional Police Station. While I was The R.I.D.E. Team is better than of your magazine. Keep up the good wandering around I happened upon excellent. Was Tony MacKinnon a work. Yours is probably the only an Oct. '90 copy of your magazine. Traffic Man?? magazine I read .... cover to cover! The article "A Personal View" by Chris Chris Morris Dale Whitham Braiden simply astounded me in the Saint John, N.B. Winnipeg, Manitoba way he thought, because I think the same way. You see, though I am now ••• • •• a member of a Police Services Board Editor's Notes: Just about every (Police Commission) it was only a few Editor's Notes: I would suppose that one, way down deep, would like to this is an appropriate time to remind short years ago that I was a police be a Traffic Officer. Tony, however, constable. And yes, like Mr. Braiden our subscribers to notify us of any had to settle for second best. He is a address changes. We need at least 30 I used to, and still do wonder why the Sergeant. police do and act the way they do. days notice to ensure your subscrip Tony had his modest beginnings in tion doesn't develop hiccups in I can remember shivering on foot a police force that had to be disband patrol wearing a short sleeve shirt delivery. ed because no one could spell or pro because someone decided that it nounce the name. How would you ••• would be the dress of the day. like to say you're are a member of the Promotions: 100 people try for 5 Chinguacoosy Township Police Force? AVID READER positions, the result is , 5 very happy Peel Region Police took pity on this As an avid reader and subscriber to p ople but 95 very unhappy people. group and amalgamated them in Blue line Magazine, as well as a law Mr Braiden mentions the very real 1972. enforcement officer with the City of fact about the tendency to look at a Tony, wanting to live life in the fast Winnipeg Police Department, I would man's shoulder or arms for the sign lane, moved to the City of Belleville like to congratulate you on your ex of intelligence instead of looking at the were he has been sentenced to stay cellent periodical. I find many of the man's brains. In most police forces with their police force until pension articles both informative and useful to there are enough Rules and Regula time with no hope for parole. the law enforcement field . tions, tanding Orders and Notices to Tony's talents do not stop at law en Marc Rogers (B.A.) choke a herd of elephants. Then the forcement. He has a good collection Winnipeg, Manitoba brass wants to know why there insn't more personal initiative! Over ten y ars ago I took a police management course and found it to be the best course I had ever taken and I have yet FLASlms to see many, if any, of the ideas by TOllY MacKinnon implemented. Something has to change soon. I used to thing I was the only one out there that thought like that but ''A pparently he's tem after reading the article and talking to porarily in charge of Mr. Braiden on the phone I realize I'm issuing equipment not alone and with luck there are a while everyone else lot more of us out there. is on holiday!" You seem to have an excellent magazine which has been needed for a long time. You really made my day when I found your magazine. Roger Gadd Alliston, Ontario 4 March 1991 Vo l. 3 No.3 · March 199 1 EDITORIAL - EDITOR/ PUBLISHER - Morley Lymburner - EDITORIAL ADVISORS - David H. Tsubouchi, LL. B. Less Study and More Action Required Edward Gunraj (PoO.A. Consultant) Mary Lymburner B.A. M.Ed. Gerald A. Oxman LC.LA. Report of the Regionalization Study Team Jaan Schaer B.A. (Metro Police E. A.P.) Tom Dykes Chris Offer - Robert Hotston B.A. M.Crim. Rick Patrick (Lambton Co ll ege) The Editorial Advisors are persons police d e pa rtments were from whom this publication seeks out advice and guidance. The use of their amalgamated into the City of Van names is merely for recognition of their assistance and ongoing support. couver. At that time a provincial - ADVERTISING - review of the po lice in greater Van Allan W. Stiver couver recommended further - CONTRIBUTING WRITERS - amalgamation of police departments Lucy Becker • Louise Dueck AI Porter • Richard Duplain by integrating the New Westminster • Daff ydd Hermann • Craig McMillan and Burnaby po li ce into the Van • T. Richard Coll edge • Murray E. Mill igan • Rock Dueck • Geoff Cates • Robert Hotston couver Department to form one - ILLUSTRATION - department with improved effec Tony Mac Ki nnon • Bette Clark tiveness. Since that study the idea sur Dave Sills faces about every 10 years, and - DESIGN AND PRODUCTION - results in a report, a brief debate and Jim Kelly Camelot Graphic Design is then relegated to the stacks in the 97 Sir La ncelot Drive Markham, Ontario L3P 2J3 provincial archives. 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