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GUIDE APRIL 2011 2 BLUE LINE MAGAZINE April 2011 Volume 23 Number 4 Features 6 The next Trans-Canada vision Emergency services lineup behind 700 MHz 12 A refuge for first responders and soldiers 6 14 Chinguacousy Township Police Celebrating 12 yrs of service... 50 years later 29 Blue Line Trade Show 2011 Guide 42 Lasers: The latest threat 45 Doing more for less with applied analytics 29 Departments 54 Blue Links Advertisers Index 40 Deep Blue 39 Dispatches 52, 53 Market Place 5 Publisher’s Commentary 53 Odditorials Case Law 42 48 Phone search to identify owner allowed 50 Good faith belief must be reasonable BLUE LINE MAGAZINE 3 APRIL 2011 APRIL 2011 4 BLUE LINE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER’S COMMENTARY Blue Line by Morley Lymburner Magazine Inc. PUBLISHER Morley S. Lymburner - [email protected] GENERAL MANAGER Are we paying attention? Mary K. Lymburner - [email protected] SENIOR EDITOR Mark Reesor - [email protected] Looking at the horrific aftermath of the disaster strikes but to follow their example. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Japanese earthquake makes you wonder what Over the past year Blue Line has presented E. Jolene Lymburner - [email protected] would have happened if it had occurred in a series of articles by firefighter, paramedic, Canada. Are we as prepared as the Japanese author and instructor Michael Weaver, a strong CONTRIBUTING WRITERS government, their emergency services or peo- advocate of inter-service and cross agency Mike Novakowski ple? It is a difficult question to answer. training. He will present a seminar at this Mark Giles The most significant lesson from Japan is month’s Blue Line Training sessions. Robert Lunney that disasters are never singular events. The Weaver’s drive for better communication, James Clark multiple horrors the quake caused was ac- co-ordination and training between emergency Dorothy Cotton companied by a Tsunami and then multiplied services was heightened by Robert Dziekan- Dave Brown by exploding nuclear reactors. ski’s death at the Vancouver Airport. He has Tom Rataj Disasters stretch first responders to the long believed the RCMP officers’ actions were breaking point. Police face looting and wide- representative of what any officer would do AFFILIATIONS spread unrest, fire services strive to rescue in the absence of proper training to identify, International Association of victims while coping with multiple infernos request resources and physically manage an Law Enforcement Planners and ambulance and hospitals are overwhelmed extremely agitated individual in medical crisis. Canadian Advertising Rates Data with thousands of victims. All of this can oc- A “universal response” between emer- International Police Association cur with little or no warning, making events gency services can maximize our ability to The Canadian Press Newswire difficult to predict before they unfold. respond to and better mitigate large and small Access Copyright The priority in the aftermath of a disaster disasters. becomes maintaining the health of the sur- This month’s lead story by technology viving population. This is where a myriad editor Tom Rataj highlights the importance of SUBSCRIPTIONS $30 per year; $50 for 2yrs; US & Foreign: $100 of other services come into play. All must be obtaining appropriate, reliable communications coordinated and dispatched to where they are linkages. This is underscored by the bandwidth ADVERTISING most needed. that will become available later this year when 888-640-3048 [email protected] In the Japanese quake scenario, several Canadian television stops broadcasting in factors worked in the nation’s favour. Japan analog on Aug. 31. Given the multiple disasters has the world’s third largest economy so in Japan, how much of that bandwidth will be www.blueline.ca money and resources are not a problem. It is reserved for emergency services? 12A-4981 Hwy7 East, Ste 254, compact, so help is never too far away, and The Ontario Emergency Services Depart- Markham, ON L3R 1N1 Canada with 127 million people, finding rescuers is ment invited me to a training workshop at P: 905 640 3048 F: 905 640 7547 not a serious issue. It is well connected and the Ontario Police College a few years ago. I [email protected] blessed with both good communications and was introduced to police, fire and ambulance transportation. Most importantly, its citizens people all keenly interested in sticking their are well educated, disaster savvy and did not noses into each other’s business, so-to-speak. PRINTED IN CANADA panic in the face of so much adversity. Questions ranged from how police offic- In comparing all of these factors to ers should approach dangerous substances ISSN# 08478538 Canada, it becomes clear that, given our and how paramedics extract injured police geography, we are both blessed and cursed. officers from firefights to how firefighters Blue Line Magazine was established in 1988 as an independent We have less people, much greater distances use stretcher-boards to immobilize agitated publication to inform, entertain, connect and educate those involved in the law enforcement profession. With no direct control from an between communities, longer communications suspects police are apprehending and how enforcement agency, its opinions do not necessarily reflect those networks and fewer seismologically sensitive agencies can meet to talk about improving of any government or law enforcement agency. areas. The Pacific Rim of British Columbia emergency preparedness. The authors, advisors, and publisher accept no liability whatsoever is an exception but it has no need for nuclear In the weeks, months and years ahead we for any injuries to person(s) or property resulting from application of adoption of anything presented in this magazine. Readers are power plants. will hear more about the Japanese experience cautioned and advised that articles presented herein are edited The Japanese experience should encour- handling multiple disasters. Let us hope that and supplied for your personal awerness and should not be used our eyes and ears are open to what they have for further actions until appropriate guidance is received from a age all members of law enforcement to work supervisor, Crown Attorney or other persons in authority. closely with fire and ambulance personnel. learned and will learn. A plan of action imple- mented with communication, co-ordination All material submitted for publication becomes property of Blue This month’s cover is a shining example of Line Magazine Inc. unless arrangements have been made with the inter-agency co-operation between the police and training between agencies and disciplines publisher prior to publishing. and EMS services in York Region. Members can save lives... and careers! © 2011 All articles are protected by copyright. No part of this of both agencies gear up, work and train to- publication may be repoduced or transmitted in any form or means, gether to maximize their effectiveness. At the electronic or mechanical, (including photocopying and recording or by any information storage or retrieval system), without prior permis- very least, in times of crisis, they are familiar sion. Permission to reprint may be obtained in advance from Access with each other’s approach, protocols and Copyright 1-800-893-5777. equipment. I encourage you to not wait until BLUE LINE MAGAZINE 5 APRIL 2011 The next Trans-Canada vision Emergency services lineup behind 700MHz by Tom Rataj television services across Canada switch Get in line to the new digital broadcast standard at First in line are Canada’s national and The Constitution Act of 1867 created the the end of August 2011, almost half of the regional cellular companies. They expect “Dominion of Canada” and included a written 700MHz radio “spectrum” currently oc- the data traffic on their wireless networks to condition to build the Intercolonial Railway cupied by channels 62 through 69 will be double every year from now through 2014. as a means of unifying the new nation. available for other uses. The soon-to-be vacant spectrum would eas- Likewise, the Trans-Canada Highway By reserving a section of this spectrum ily provide them with much of the capacity Act of 1948 created a national highway for the exclusive use of emergency services they need to match this expected demand. network as a means of unifying a more voice and data networks, the government Many of the large players now rake modern motorized nation after the Second could ultimately provide Canada with the in substantial profits – the wireless in- World War. foundation for a state-of-the-art commu- dustry generated an estimated $39 billion Now in the 21st century, the federal nications infrastructure that will benefit in economic activity in 2008. Industry government has a great opportunity to make all Canadians. Canada will be tempted to make a quick the next great nation-unifying decision, Industry Canada announced last No- multi-billion dollar profit by selling off albeit in a slightly less obvious manner vember that it intends to auction off licens- the available spectrum to these cash-rich unlikely to attract nearly as many votes. es to use this by-then available spectrum to wireless service providers, as it did the last When analog broadcast (over-the-air) the highest bidder in late 2012. time spectrum was auctioned off. APRIL 2011 6 BLUE LINE MAGAZINE Second in line, and certainly not flush Many newer technologies – includ- services from communicating with other with cash, are Canada’s emergency servic- ing video analytics or Intelligent Video agencies. This also prevents them from es, which also expect to see multiple-fold Analysis (IVA), Automated Licence Plate communicating directly with other emer- increases in need and demand for wireless Recognition (ALPR) and various biometric gency services such as fire and EMS during broadband spectrum to support their grow- systems such as mobile fingerprint and iris major incidents. ing array of communications technologies.