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Solicitor General Solliciteur général 1+ Canada Canada Solicitor General Annual Report 1983-1984 Secretariat Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Parole Board The Correctional Service of Canada Canal:1U Solicitor General Solliciteur general 1* Canada Canada le(:) ,Ç ,ra.aplt‘ezi%ecelzy,:( ez0:,:;17eoge:2,C;oe ■appeetle e etcee )..peeddete ee' .'eee\e'eecceeeeseee\>c "0°\e'eee\e.ç\e'e 2,\\.e \ededz \ ‘ eteee'ee Solicitor General Annual Report 1983-1984 Secretariat Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Parole Board The Correctional Service of Canada Published under the authority of the Hon. Elmer MacKay, P.C., Q.C., M.P., Solicitor General of Canada Produced by the Communications Division, Programs Branch, Ministry Secretariat ©Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1985 Cat. No. JS1-1984 ISBN 0-662-53480-8 Solicitor General Solliciteur général I.' of Canada du Canada The Honourable L'honorable Elmer MacKay Elmer MacKay To Her Excellency The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé Governor General of Canada May it please Your Excellency: I have the honour to submit to Your Excellency the annual report of the Ministry of the Solicitor General for the fiscal year April 1, 1983 to March 31, 1984. Respectfully submitted, Ottawa, Canada Ki A OP8 CanadN. Contents The Ministry of the Solicitor General 1 Secretariat Mandate 3 Policy Branch 4 Police and Security Branch 5 Programs Branch 8 Administration Branch 13 Corporate Systems 13 Appendices: A. Ministry of the Solicitor General 15 B. Ministry Secretariat 18 Royal Canadian Mounted Police 21 Mandate 21 Organization 24 Enforcement of Federal Statutes and Executive orders 25 Police Services under Contract 34 Canadian Police Services 35 Administration 39 National Parole Board 45 Mandate 45 Highlights 46 Operational Overview 1983-84 46 Initiatives for 1984-85 49 The Correctional Service of Canada 51 Mandate 51 Organization 53 Objectives 53 Planning and Management 53 Administration 53 Custody of mina tes 53 Offender Case Management 53 Education, Training and Employment of Inmates 53 Health Care 53 Technical Services 54 Appendices: 69 1. Average Number of Offenders on Register 70 2. Financial Performance by Activity 70 3. Expenditures for the Past Four Years by Activity 71 4. Person-Year Utilization 72 5. Expenditures for Assistance to Private Agencies 73 6. Revenues 74 7. Cost of Maintaining Offenders — Summary 74 8. Average Number of Employed Inmates 75 9. Number of Security Incidents 75 10. International Transfers 76 L. The Ministry of the Solicitor General The Ministry of the Solicitor General • The Correctional Service of brings together the major operational Canada, the federal penitentiary elements of the Federal Government agency responsible for administer- concerned with the administration of ing sentences of two years or more the criminal justice system under the imposed by the courts and for pre- direction and supervision of the Solici- paring inmates for their return to tor General. society; and • The National Parole Board, responsible for the granting of conditional release and the attend- ant reform and rehabilitative These major elements now comprise: work. During fiscal year 1983-84, the Minis- • The Ministry Secretariat, which try utilized 31,813 person-years, an provides overall policy direction to increase of .8 per cent from 1982-83 the programs of the Ministry, and incurred expenditures of $1.5 bil- coordinates Ministry programs lion, up 13.4 per cent from the previous and provides certain centralized year. common services in areas such as research and statistics; In this report, each of the four major • The Royal Canadian Mounted components of the Ministry reviews in Police, the federal law enforce- some detail its legislative and policy ment agency which also provides initiatives and its operational activities policing services to eight prov- for fiscal year 1983-84, while providing inces, two territories, and almost an outline of priorities and anticipated 200 municipalities; activities for 1984-85. Organization of the Secretariat, 1983-84 / Senior \ Asst. Deputy /Senior\ _ Solicitor General, Policy Police Advisory & Security r- Committee/ Director General, \ / Administration \ / General Director, / / \ Corporate Systems / \ DEPUTY SOLICITOR Asst. Deputy SOLICITOR GENERAL Solicitor General, GENERAL Policy Executive Assistant Ministry Counsel: Legal Services N / /\ Asst. Deputy ■ MOO10. Solicitor General, Programs \ / / The /Royal \ \ /National Canadian Correctional Service Parole Mounted Board \Police/ of Canada \ / Secretariat Mandate The Secretariat's primary role is to develop and coordinate the policy of the Ministry. It is headed by the Deputy Solicitor General who, with the Heads of the RCMP, The Correctional Service of Canada and the National Parole Board, participates in the Ministry's Senior Policy Advisory Committee. The Secretariat's policy thrust is in four main functional areas: the criminal justice system, corrections, police, and security. Organiza- tionally, it has three operations branches, Policy, Police and Secu- rity, and Programs, as well as an Administration Branch and a Cor- porate Systems Office. During fiscal year 1983-84, the Secretariat employed 291 person-years and had expenditures of $28.1 million. 3 7 Highlights of 1983-84 recommendations and agreed to set up Policy Branch a Federal-Provincial Working Group to follow up the recommendations and develop implementation strategies The Policy Branch has a policy Criminal Justice Policy including an examination of funding development and advisory role in sup- mechanisms. The Policy Branch is par- port of the Solicitor General, the International ticipating in this process. Deputy Solicitor General, and the Min- istry agencies. Another essential func- tion is liaison with the other major Criminal Justice Policy has the lead Firearms actors in the criminal justice field. role for coordinating Canadian prepa- These include other branches of the rations for and participation in the Sev- In August, 1983, the final report of the Secretariat, Ministry agencies, related enth United Nations Congress on the three-year independent evaluation federal and provincial departments and Prevention of Crime and the Treatment study of the firearms control legislation agencies, and private sector organiza- of Offenders, which will be held in was published and released for public tions. 1985. Governments are officially comment. The study found numerous invited to participate in the Congress, favourable changes in the patterns of and to formulate national positions on firearms use and in criminal sentencing The Branch carries principal responsi- the agenda topics. Topic areas deal which indicated the new legislation has bility for the Ministry's strategic plan- with such issues as new dimensions of had a positive effect. The volume and ning function, including developing the criminality and crime prevention in the nature of public response has indicated annual Strategic Overview. It exercises context of development, victims of a large measure of acceptance of the a planning and coordinating role in a crime, juvenile crime, and formulation firearms legislation. number of important policy level fed- and application of United Nations eral-provincial meetings of interest to standards and norms in criminal jus- the Ministry. Since 1981, the Branch tice. The firearms safety education pro- has led the Ministry's participation in gram, inaugurated in the fall of 1982, the fundamental review of criminal law continued to gain wide acceptance. and procedure which has been under- To plan, direct and control the Firearms safety filmstrip kits, for pub- taken jointly with the Department of Canadian preparations for this major lic school use, were given awards for Justice and the Law Reform Commis- event, a Coordinating Group was estab- creative excellence at the United States sion of Canada. It also played a leading lished in January, 1984. Plans are Industrial Film Festival. role in developing policy proposals that under way to secure the full participa- culminated in the Young Offenders tion of other federal departments, pro- Act. vincial governments, and