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By BlairMcQuillan The cra h of '29 put great economic train on many families across Canada. The oran family, who resided in Burstall, askatchewan was no e ception. Because of the hard hip he and his family faced Joe Loran took up trade as a moonshiner aside from his more hone t occupation as a fanner. Jo Loran was a man who enjoyed drinking. Unfortunately his son Jack also d v lop d a fondness for homebrew. Jack Loran was one individual who should have ab tained from drinking large quantities of alcohol, as it caused him to become rather obno iou and aggressive. As a result of his liking for liquor and fighting, Jack was not popular among the people of Burstall. A tocky lad Jack was a man who po se ed humbled features . Born Jacob Loran, Jack was the youngest of Joe and va oran's seven children. In 1910, the Loran family emigrated to Canada from Russia and acquired a quarter-section of I. nd on the outskirts of Burstall. A wa customary during the war, the citiz n of Burstall spent their aturday night at the evening dance in the town hall on Main treet. It was aturday June 29, I 45 . Jack Loran, then 19, attended the danc . Jack loved to dance. However, Jack al 0 loved to indulge in drinking and as a re ult arrived at the affair in a drunk and obno iou tate. uring the Christmas season, six month previous, Jack had begun to seek the affections of Alvina Hermann. Alvina wa the i teen-year-old daughter of an • muent neighbour who did not even hold the slightest interest in Jack. Ilis persistence along with the calls he would make on the farm house during both the day and . night angered the entire family. uring the dance Jack drank hImself into a foul mood. While the music played and everyone around him was having a good time Jack was sure he heard contemptuou voices speaking to him. The voice were telling him to go see Alvina. A the dance came to a close at midnight Jac decided to listen to the voices. lie would go visit the Hermann residence and the fair Alvina. Jack asked a friend, mil redrick to accompany him. Because Jack had blown the motor in the family's 1929 Ford, he resolved to take his brothers car to the Ilermann farm . At one o'clock in the morning Jack received a ride home with a neighbour. uring the five kilometer ride back to the
Jacob(Jack) Loran Loran farm Jack gloated that his father was about to purchase a 1940 black Ford sedan. A sedan like the one belonging to Gustav Angerman. Angerman was a sixty-four-year-old Russian immigrant who lived across the road from the Loran farm. Gustav arrived in Burstall the same year Joe Loran chose to raise a family in the area. Gustav was a friend of the Loran family. Together they had put in many hours of hard work to establish their respective homesteads. However, Jack did not like Gustav. Angerman had caught him drinking moonshine once and alerted the police. As a result Jack was fined $100. While stumbling into the farm house in the early morning darkness Jack took note of a Browning repeater rifle on the back porch . Jack picked up the gun and quickly decided to call on Gustav. Just before two o'clock Angerman heard someone banging on his window. After inquiring as to who was outside and receiving no response, Angerman decided to investigate. He placed his hat upon his head and walked outside. As Loran later confessed to the police, "After he came out of the house I fired three shots into him. I asked him for the car keys. He took them out of his pocket and threw them on the ground. I took the keys and went over to the bam and backed up the car, and I drove over to the house .. I went to see if he's dead. I searched hIS
pockets and found a wallet containing two dollars. Then I left." Jack left Angerman ' s and sped off to see Alvina. After waking the entire family by honking the hom in the large stolen sedan, Alvina stormed outside and Jack asked if she would like to go to a party. After Alvina flatly refused in no uncertain terms, Jack dec ided to go see Emil. Jack enticed Emil into accompanymg him on a trip to Medicine Hat to meet with some women he knew. Emil accepted the invitation and they were soon dnving off to Medicine Hat. Jack could not find the women he was looking for, nor was he welcomed at his sisters house where he stopped to vi sit early Sunday morning. After driving around Medicine Hat for a while Jack was offered money to drive three soldiers to Lethbridge. On Sunday afternoon when Jack stopped to fill up the Ford in a gas station in Bow Island two RCMP officers arrested him. They found the rifle still laying across the back seat and charged Loran with possession of a stolen vehicle and suspicion of murder. Jack was transported to Leader, Saskatchewan for holding. He told police that Fred Flug, the shoemaker in Burstall, had gotten him drunk and told him to rob Angerman. Flug was a known bootlegger and Jack claimed that Flug was the man who murdered Angerman. "If Flug hadn't given me that liquor I certainly wouldn 't have done it. I certainly wouldn 't have swiped the car, I mean. I've been drunk all day from the stuffhe gave me. Iwould have gone to the cops myselfand told them everything after I sobered up." Fred Flug was apprehended and later released after producing a number of alibis who could verify that Flug was definitely not at the scene of the murder when it took place. It wasn't until after consulting with a Roman Catholic priest that Loran confessed to the murder. Soon Jack had two lawyers working on his behalf, Murdoch Alexander MacPherson, Sr. and his son M.S. "Sandy" MacPherson, Jr. After conducting preliminary interviews with Loran, Sandy realized Jack' s only chance was to plead insanity. Loran didn 't seem to feel any remorse or see anything wrong with the horrendous crime he had committed. The MacPherson' s knew they would face a number of obstacles in their defence. On ovember 20 , 1945 the trial of Jack Loran opened in front of Mr. Justice P.M. Anderson and a packed courtroom. The prosecutor was William Rose who was and is still regarded as one of the best prosecutors to practice in Saskatchewan. At trial it was soon revealed that Jack had spent the day shooting blackbirds with Joe Loran . When Jack wanted to go to the
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dance that night his brother Edwin was hesitant to accompany him. While Edwin was on the stand the defence asked, "Do you go to dances often around Burstall?,' "Yes." replied Edwin. "Did Jack go with you?" "Not very often." " Why didn't you take him?" "I didn't like to take him along with me. He got quarrelsome, got drinking, wanted to fight." Joe Loran testified that his son had dropped out of school in the seventh grade to help on the farm. Joe described Jack as a " poor worker" . Other family members testified that Jack had developed a temper and became unpredictable after he had cracked his skull open while herding cows in the summer of 1935, when he was just nine years old. Because his parents were unable to afford treatment Jack was kept in bed until the injury had healed. Jack possessed far less intelligence than the rest of the children his age who considered him to be rather dense. The children teased him and at night Jack could hear the voices of the children taunting him in German, French and English. Dr. A.R. Coulter was the main witness for the prosecution. Coulter said Jack was not insane at all but merely pretending to be mad to "escape conviction." Coulter thought Jack was "quite co-operative and pleasant, not all confused, a boy who seemed to be well in touch with his environment." In astatementto the jury Judge Anderson said, "The issue you will have to s~end tim~ and think about very carefully IS, was It murder, or was it manslaughter? The defence raises two defences. One is the defence of insanity. The other is a little different. There is some defence of drunkenness, plus the low mentality the boy has. The two psychiatrists are reliable men, unfortunately they do not agree. Both of them are ~onest in their view, and it is for you, the JUry to decide which of them is right." There were six men on the jury. This was of course due to the war. The jury resided in their hotel for less than an hour weighing the evidence at hand. They returned to the courtroom and announced a verdict of guilty as charged. As a result Judge Anderson pronounced the death sentence. Jack accepted the verdict with almost no show of emotion. He just stared at the judge as if trying to figure out what it a\1 meant. Jack Loran was sent to the provincial jail in Regina where he resided until 9: 15 a.m. February 20, 1946 when he was executed as ordered by the court. Next Month
Enforcement Program at Rail Crossings CSX Police Special Agent Jeff Ditmars says he'll never forget the harrowing day last September when the train on which he was riding hit a van that had ignored flashing red lights at a rail crossing between Sarnia and Chatham, Ont. The CSX train, hauling 42 automobile racks, hit the vehicle broadside at 40kmh, dragging it several hundred metres. The passenger side door and seat crumpled into the van's female driver but, miraculously, she emerged with only a broken shoulder and multiple cuts and bruises. "There was nothing we could do," recalled Sp.Agt. Ditmars, noting that the heavy train traveled more than a half a kilometre after the engineer hit the brakes. "Time just seemed to stand still. It was scary." Ironically, the incident occurred while Sp.Agt. Ditmars was riding on the CSX train as part of an innovative two-year-old program aimed at reducing rail crossing accidents. Ca\1ed " Officer on the Train," the program, imported to Canada from Kans~s City by Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Bill Dennis, involves stationing a police officer aboard the locomotive of a regularlyscheduled train . With the use of a videocamera and radio, the officer reports any rail crossing violators to police who are strategically located nearby. The police then issue a warning or a ticket. Sgt. Dennis boarded his first locomotive of a CSX train running from Chatham to Sarnia in 1992. Using a radio, Sgt. Dennis identified violators to officers on the ground and, as a result ofthe exercise, three drivers received tickets and five others were handed warnings. Since the CSX experience, at least a dozen more Officer on the Train runs have been conducted by railways and enforcement agencies across the country. 1. Benoit Levesque, National Director of Operation Lifesaver, agrees that increasing public awareness and education about the hazards of crossing or walking along rail lines is the key to reducing accidents. The non-profit organization, set up by the Railway Association of Canada in 1981 to promote safety at Canada's 24,000 rail crossings, is a major backer of the Officer on the Train program. "While we' ve made a good deal of progress, these kinds of accidents are still a major problem and too many people don't realize the dangers," said Levesque. Rail crossing accidents in Canada have been cut by more than half since Operation Lifesaver was established. But collisions between cars and trains still occur on average once a day, with horrific results.
Last year, there were 367 road-rail crossing accidents across the country, resulting in 53 deaths and 161 injuries. That compared with 373 accidents, 73 deaths and 240 injuries in 1992. More than half the accidents occurred at protected crossings (bells, flashing lights, barriers) that were ignored by drivers. Sadly, all were avoidable. "Illegal rail crossings are an every day occurrence and it's almost contagious," said Sp.Agt. Ditmars of CSX. "Just recently, four cars drove around the gates at a rail crossing in London. One didn' t make it." Sgt. Dennis said that Officer on the Train is a good publicity tool. But it is also essential to have officers stationed near rai I crossings because they are in the best position to stop violators. "It's difficult for the officer to determine from the train whether the rail crossing lights are flashing and if a car stopped or not," he said. "The evidence for every charge we laid after our exercise came from officers on the ground." Sgt. Brian Gaskell, an RCMP officer in Halifax, noted that enforcement agencies in Nova Scotia, in cooperation with Operation Lifesaver, have on a regular basis positioned themselves at busy rail crossings to hand out safety pamphlets to motorists. They have also toured schools to talk to children about the rising problem of rail line trespassing. "Accidents have declined through higher education and because of the reduction in train runs in recent years," Sgt. Gaske\1 said. Officer Doug Laws of Edmonton City Police said that a combination of crossing enforcement and positioning officers on trains has also been effective in publicizing the dangers of illegal rail crossings in his region. He said he learned a personal lesson while riding on the locomotive of a train passing near Edmonton during an Officer on the Train exercise last year. "Just as we were approach ing our fourth crossing, a school bus shot across without stopping, moments before the barrier came down," he recalled. "That day I realized how helpless a train engineer is when it comes to stopping. " He can't do anything."
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Multimedia Training Computers Give Cops More Street Time Digital Renaissance, a leadingmultimediaapplication 1~ developer and the Peel Regional Police Department ,. . . have teamed up to produce •, a series of interactive CDROM-based training programs. This new system will allow police "officers to complete portions of mandatory training by accessing a number of multimedia courses through the departments personal computers. Officers can now complete training levels at their own pace, spending less time in the classroom and more time on the streets. "Police must requalify their expertise regularly in such areas as Use of Force, First Aid, C.P.R., policy and procedures and new legislation. Multimedia is a perfect vehicle for providing the theory components of training in these areas," said Keith Kocho, President of Digital Renaissance. " Since January 1994 we have worked with the Peel Regional Police Force to help them develop and implement their own multimedia training applications." Multimedia training is presently used by Peel Regional Police to educate its staff concerning the transition from the revolvers they previously used to new semiautomatic pistols. The Pistol Transition program provides trainees with detailed explanations about the new pistols internal mechan isms and functions, an instructional video on regular maintenance, as well as a test on all information. Test scores are logged, and only those who pass with a predetermined standard can begin practical training at the shooting range. Digital Renaissance and the Police Department have also developed an interactive CD-ROM for a Use-of-Force training program. The Use of Force multimedia program puts police officers in potentially hazardous scenarios and gives them various choices to safely rectify the situation. With the multimedia course, thousands ofservice hours - or hours that police spend patrolling the community - will be saved through replacing classroom time with computerbased training time that complements practical training the officers receive. "We're hoping that as other police departments get up and running on multimedia training technology, we can form an inter-regional exchange system whereby police services can design and produce courses on different topics and exchange them with other services," said Inspector Clevely. Peel Regional Police and Digital Renaissance intend to work together in the near future to produce multimedia courses on •
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By aul herno Toronlo ompule! Magazine July 1994 Police and government regulatory agencies have been technologically behind the times for several years . omputer-related crime i growing at a rapid pace, police ay, and they are clamouring for more power to keep pace with the increa e in ilIegal uses of computers. And there's a wide variety of crime in cyber pace. a t falI , police seized computer equipment and laid ob cenity charge against the operators of eight Toronto-area computer bulI tin board systems (BB s). The board violated federal legislation pa sed earlier in the year making it ilIegal to po es, di tribute or import e ualIy e plicit word or image which depict people who either are or are made to appear under the age of 18 or which portray be tiality and other" extremely degrading" acts. In the U.. in February, the Computer mergency Response Team ( • RT) warned that " intrud r " had captured password acce codes for tens of thousands of Int rnet systems. According to CERT, which is an agency funded by the American military to oversee Internet security, hacker have become increasingly sophisticated, jumping from one Internet site to another, using sophisticated surveilIance ofiware to teal passwords and browse through confidential corporate financial re ord . • AR H, a non-profit, computercrime re earch centre based in California, a i t police forces with computer-related
issues and conducts training sessions for officers. Spokesperson Fred Cotton says pedophiles are increasingly using computers to " meet" children. A typical scenario, Cotton says, involves a young boy, 10 to 14 years old, who logs onto a BBS and befriends an older man through the system ' s live chat service. In one case, a San Francisco-area
man engaged an II-year-old boy in a frank sexual discussion on-line and sent the child graphic sexual material via electronic mail. The boy's parents noticed the graphics and contacted police, who obtained a search warrant and seized the man ' s computer. Police discovered databases and e-mail folders fulI of sexualIy explicit photos and computer graphics of children, and the man was later convicted on obscenity charges. And Cotton says things can get a lot worse . Some young computer users
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authorities to break computer codes, there's been little such debate in Canada, Wolynski says. He hopes for encryption legislation "down the road." The advent of computer communications has also eroded the effectiveness of international borders. "It's going to be very hard to impose our morals and values on other countries," Wolynski says. He points out however, that publication bans and other legislation can be virtually meaningless in the electronic age without some kind of international co-operation. Wolynski says the RCMP is preparing to communicate its concerns about Canada's Criminal Code to the federal justice department. "We are looking to either amend the Criminal Code or to provide a new federal statute to deal specifically with computers and data." But one computer civil liberty organization, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, says police don 'tneed anymore rights. "No one disputes that crimes occur on-line or are facilitated by on-line interaction," says Mike Godwin, counsel with the Washington, D.C.-basedEFF. "Whatwedoquestion is the magnitude of the problems that are being described by the police when they cite these examples of pedophiles and child pornographers using the Internet or the bulletin boards." The EEF's Canadian cousin, the Electronic Frontier Canada, was formed in January. Organ izers say they hope to ensure the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is applied to computers. Co-founder Jeffrey Shall it says the fnternet and other forms of computer communication need the same constitutional protection other media enjoy. He says common carrier legislation, which prevents telephone companies from being charged for material that crosses phone lines, needs to be extended to protect Internet hosts and bulletin boards, which are now liable for material that passes through their systems. While Shallit agrees some laws, such as the Copyright Act, need to be upgraded to meet new technical realities, he says most existing criminal and civil laws offer adequate protection.
What The Code Says Unauthorized Use of Computers and Their Programs 342.1 (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right, (a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service, (b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system, or (c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty ofan offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definitions "Computer Program " means data representing insturctions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function; "Computer Service" includes data processing and the storage or retrieval of data; "Computer System " means a device that, or a group on interconnected or related devices one or more of which, (a) contains computer programs or other data, and (b) pursuant to computer programs, (i) contains computer programs or other data, and (ii) may perform any other funtion;
"Data" means representations of information or ofconcepts that are being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in a computer system.
On September 16, 1974 the aspirations of thousands of females were represented by 32 women ranging in age from 19 to 29. It was on this date, when the first female members of the RCMP were sworn in, that the future of policing was redefined ... forever! The 32 women were more commonly known at Depot Division as "Troop 17." They were pioneers who left their homes and jobs to pursue an initiative that broke a 101 year-old tradition which only allowed males to become active street cops. This will be a feature in Blue Line Magazine in an up-coming issue. A subscription to Blue Line will guarantee you get the story.
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This fingerprint database is organized in such a way as to optimize over 2,600 internal and remote searches that the system handles every day. The database has a 2,700,000 two-print 1D File for the entire database population, two ten-print Latent Cognizant Files which are divided between the 560,000 most active criminals and the remaining 2, 140,000 files in the database, and the file of70,000 unsolved latent prints. When an arrest is made anywhere in Canada, the C-216 Fingerprint Identification Form made at the time of arrest is sent to the RCMP, electronically filed into the system, and searched against existing files . If there is no criminal file on this person already in the database, then the person is assigned an FP Number and added to the RCMP file. If there is an existing record, the person ' s fingerprint file is updated. Each of the fingerprints in the database is categorized and stored on the basis of several characteristics. These include the finger number, the classification of the pattern (such as whorl, arch , ulnar or radial loop, etc.), and the core-to-delta distance Pril/trak 's A utomated Fil/gerprillt Idel/tificatioll System (AFIS) is opel/il/g up a vast for those patterns which have a core and array ofpotelltial applicatiol/s. Govefllmel/t agellcies cal/ utilize A FIS techllology as delta. Each fingerprint is also charactera po itive idelltificatiollmeclwllism fo r welfare bellefits, gUll permits, motor vehicle ized on the basis ofa map of the minutiae records al/d immigratioll mal/agemellt. III the private sector, AFIS call be used ill points in the ridge detail of the print itself. bal/killg al/d fillallcial services fo r A TM alld credit card verificatioll, as well as poillt Minutiae points that the system finds and of ale trallsactioll .111 this article you will be updated 0 11 this exciti"g tech"ology a" d maps are ridge endings and ridge splits, or filld Ollt II ow alladia" police agellcies are helpillg it alollg. bifurcations, and each fingerprint can have as Within hours of the brutal murder ofa The Canadian AFIS Network Spans the Country ... many as 150 or more New Brun wick woman, four prime susAnd Is Still Growing minutiae. The minutiae pect emerged, including her husband, an map is made up of the X e -b yfriend, a lone camper in the area, and and Y coordinates ofeach a recent parolee al 0 known to be in the area individual m inutiae as at the time. A single latent fingerprint found well as the ridge direcon a hard of glass at the murder scene was tion angle at the location ru hed to the R MP Identification ervices of the minutiae. In addie tion in Ottawa and searched against the tion to the fingerprint national Automated Fingerprint Identificacharacteristics, a graytion y tem (AFI ) file. scale image of each finThat earch led to the identity of the gerprint is stored in an real murderer, who was not one of the four image database and is original su pects. Two days after the murretrieved when required der he killed himselfafter a police chase in for human confirmation lIamilt n-Wentworth Region in Ontario. ofa match . It wa later learned that this person had also
THE CANADIAN AFIS NETWORK An Effective Tool For Fighting Crime
murdered another woman in Toronto. The anadian AFI helped to quickly solve a brutal crime and prevented the arrest of inno ent suspects.
The Canadian AFIS Network The Canadian AFI is a system of fing rprint work stations and databases acro anada, most ofwhich are Printrak rion y tems networked together and to the R MP national system in Ottawa. The ystem consi ts of the national site at R MP- ttawa, three central databases (in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), and several remote input and latent
workstations. The network is configured such that any of the workstations can access and perform searches on any of the Printrak local databases in the country as well as the national database. (See overlay above right) The system is supplied by Printrak International Inc. of Anaheim , California. The national system contains fingerprint files for approximately 2,700,000 individuals and 70,000 unsolved latent fingerprints from nationwide crime scenes.
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The Canadian network includes three major databases
In the West is ajoint force system in Vancouver, called BC-AFIS, which is operated by both V ancouverCity Police and the RCMP. With Its own database, it is connected to the entire province of British Columbia and parts of the Yukon Territory via Photo Phones. Searches that do not make a hit in the BC-AFIS database are sent to the RCMP for search against the national file . On the other side of the country, the
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The R oyal Canadian Mounted Police utilize the largest database oj all Printrak systems worldwide. Pictured above are the movers and shakers ojthis tec/lllology,jrom the rigllt, William Whyte and Deputy Commissioner Richard A.Bergman ojthe RCMP with Steve Yeich, centre, director oj business developmentjor Printrak International Inc. ami Richard Giles, president and the Assistant Commissioner John A. L 'Abbe oj the RCMP. SOrete du Quebec operates a provincial system for the Province of Quebec with its own database and direct access to the RCMP system. The Province of Ontario has several sites wh ich are networked together through Metropolitan Toronto Police database or directly to the RCMP. The remote sites which have a primary interface with Metropolitan Toronto Police are York and Niagara Regional and Ottawa City Police Forces. Those which connect directly with RCMP Ottawa are Hamilton-Wentworth and Peel Regional Police Forces and Gloucester Police. (See chart) The Maritime and Prairie Provinces will soon connect to a dedicated RCMPOttawa latent workstation via Photo Phones.
The Canadian AFIS provides both identification and crime investigation capabilities To illustrate how the system works to positively identify an arrestee, we can start with the arrest of a crime suspect. At the time of booking, the suspect is fingerprinted on a Form C-216.lfa name search through CPI C does not satisfy the arresting agency that it knows the true identity ofthe arrestee, then the Form C-216 is scanned intoan Input Workstation andsentoverthe network to the primary central database that the remote workstation is connected to for an identity search. If that search does not produce a hit, the operator may send the search to the RCMP national file or to the other databases in Canada. A second search may be made with the
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arrestee's prints against the Unsolved Latent File to determine if that person is connected to any previous crimes. AFIS provides crime investigators with several important tools. Take for example a violent crime in which the investigators are able to find one or more partial latent fingerprints at the crime scene. In order to determine who was present at the scene, each latent print is scanned into an Input or Latent Workstation. Many crime scene prints are partial prints of poor quality. A latent examiner, to the extent possible, analyzes the print to determine the print classification, its core and delta if the print
has them, and then encodes all of the visible minutiae. A search is then sent over the network to the force's primary database site or to the RCMP in Ottawa. The search that is made is a comparison of the latent search print with the tenprint database (Latent Cognizant File) to find the identity of the person who left the print. In order to speed the search as much as possible, it may be narrowed by specifying as much information as the investigator and latent examiner can determine from the scene. Such information as finger number and sex can reduce the search time by over half. The system responds to the search by returning a respondent list ofthe nearest matches to the search print and the scores of each match . It is then up to the latent examiner to visually compare the image of the search print to that of the file print to confirm that it is indeed a positive match . The latent print may also be searched against the Unsolved Latent File of prints from prior crime scenes. A hit on this type of search will indicate that there is a possible connection between the present crime and another crime or, at the very least, that the same person was present at both scenes. The first AFIS system was installed at the RCMP in Ottawa in 1970, and since thattime the technology and capabilities of the Canadian system have progressed steadily. The Canadian AFIS network is neari ng the end of a two-year major upgrade which is designed to increase the speed and capacity of the system while substantially enhancing the operational capability of the system as a valuable identification and crime-fighting tool for Canadian law enforcement.
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the individual is a qualified armorer, he or she cannot perform a complete and safe Do you believe that whell the ellgille of a car rUllS, it mealls that the inspection of any firearm. Again, it is similar to driving. As a car i ill perfect workillg cOllditioll ? Of course ifyou all wered " 110", police officer you know how to use the you are correct. However, were you aware that the same prillcipal brakes on your patrol car, but does that applies to firearms? • I . l mean it is your responsibility to change by Pi rre Descotes ~ them? :: If you were to fail to identify an im orven if a firearm appears to work well , ~ tant problem on your fLrearm and someone it may be a virtual time-bomb for the user. frames, ~ died as a result, what qualification as an The fact of the matter is that many prob- without fir: armorer could you present to the judge? I m with firearms have been known to ing-pins and ~ Can you produce a diploma that states you occur even when the gun is not being used. missing parts. I have also ! are qualified? Ifnotwhydon'tyou use the or example, a spring that is always come across service weapservice of a qualified armorer, or become under ten ion will eventually weaken. De- ons which have rusted, as well p nding on the spring, the user may have as weapons which have had bullets stuck in certified yourself'? I am currently working on the firearms a gun that will not fire at all, or one which the chamber due to corrosion. In addition will only fire periodically. Although the to this I have seen weapons with mecha- of a police department in which I have pring i only one partofthe entire weapon, nisms that were so dirty the firearm could scrapped a quarter of their weapons. The barely function. In other cases I have had chief has assured me that he does not feel it i enough to put your life in jeopardy. ince 1982, I have worked on thou- weapons which were so soiled that clouds as though I am costing him money. Instead and of firearms, and you would not be- of dust came out of the gun during dry he feels I am saving him from the costs of law suits which could have arisen from the Ii ve what I have seen . One day, I took a firing. Throughout my career I have had chiefs use of the defective arms. By disposing of hotgun out of a patrol car, removed the bull t and took it back to my shop. When of police tell me that their firearms did not the faulty firearms thechiefis showing that I took the gun apart I found chewing-gum need any service or inspection because he cares about the security of his officers. When you think about it, your life, the tuck in the barrel directly in front of the their department had only had them for chamber. In addition to this, someone had four or five years. However, most firearm life of your partner and the life of an tuck a pen in the gum. I wa both sur- manu facturers recommend that every serv- innocent person may depend on your fireprised and shocked that these objects were ice firearm be inspected completely at least arm . Do you think that $40 per year is too expensive to save those lives? in a weapon which had been deemed "ready once every year by a certified armourer. Preventative maintenance will always be However, most departments still wait to u e." In regard to other cases I have found until a firearm is reported defective before less expensive than the cost of a human life. fireann in use with broken frames, bent sending it out for inspection. In some cases Pierre Descotes is the founder of weapons are still in use even though [have "L.A.B.", which stands for Logistics, personally alerted the chief that the fireArms and Ballistics. Since 1982, he has Go AHEAD ••• arms are either defective or out right danbeen devoted to the law enforcement MAKE YOUR DAY gerous. field . Descotes is responsible for the WITH service of police firearms and also ofThroughout my career [ have found fers his service as a consultant on firethat the shooting instructor is usually the arms and ammunition. Pierre will be a person in charge of "quality control" for a contributing writer in future issues. department's firearms . However, unless
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Winnipeg Museum Gets Stamp Of Approval On August 19th, 1994, Canada Post unveiled a new series of commemorative stamps regarding service vehicles. One vehicle featured in the series is a 1925 Reo Police Patrol Wagon b longing to the Winnipeg Police Mueum. The member of the mu eum were, needle to ay, proud to receive such an honour. The 1925 Reo peedwagon was purcha ed by the museum in the late 1980's and fully restored over a three year period. The museum even restored the engine to proper working order to allow the memb r of the museum to use it on special ccasions. The Reo peedwagon is very special to the mu eum as it was one of the vehicles < tually u ed by the Winnipeg Police from 1925 to 1930. Records obtained by the mu eum howthatthevehiclewasshipped from the Reo Factory in Lansing, Michigan on July 3, 1925 to Breen Motors in Winnip g. The Winnipeg Police Department then purchased the vehicle and the " Paddy Wagon" box wa built locally by Lawrie Auto Body Works. [n 1930 the Reo was sold and a new \ agon wa purchased. The 1930 model wa much more comfortable and had modem acce ories such as doors forthe driver. A fter being relea ed by the department the Reo became a farm truck for many year until it was no longer able to run . At thi point it was left in a field to rot. In the mid 1960' s the wagon was obtained forthe Museum of Man and Nature and partially rebuilt. When plans for a Tran port tion Museum fell through the Reo wa sent off to be stored at the Auto Mu eum in Ikhom, Manitoba. [n lat 1985, enquiries were initiated in th hope of obtaining the vehicle for the Winnipeg Police Museum. At firstthoughts f a long term loan of the Reo were discus ed, but eventually the wagon was d ,cce ioned and given to the Police Mu eum on the condition that they pay for the restoration. In 1986 the wagon was taken back to th city and placed in storage until proper facilitie could be found to house the vehicle during restoration. A year later the vehicle wa taken to the White Truck ales Building where it was completel disasmbled, down to the last nut and bolt. riginal parts for the Reo were found
The restoration team consisted entirely of Winnipeg Police officers led by the Curator of the Winnipeg Police Museum, Staff Sergeant Jack Templeman . StaffSerr.::=====:::::::::::::::===:= :=:- - - - - - - - , geant Ron Wurster and Constable Garth McCombe were the restoration artists, both being highly skilled in the restoration of antique vehicles. Sergeant _ AlbertApostlemadethe :;:: fourth member of the team with his specialty in the acquisition of parts and services. The restoration of t !G- H IE D 'll( GOII il'l HIED U GO H C{ Ul) ~ the 1925 Reo Speedt ol l( I '/I tC 0 II J!J f OUleD" (lllUl All[ L-_-=~________ wagon was completed in the spring of 1990. in New Hampshire and Detroit, as well as Since that time the vehicle has been on Manitoba, Wetaskwin, Alberta and Prince display in the Winnipeg Police Museum. Aside from choosing to commemorate Rupert, British Columbia. Parts which deteriorated were duplicated by many local one of Winnipeg's finest service vehicles, shops in Winnipeg. As previously men- Canada Post also chose the city as the tioned the four cylinder motor was com- Official First Day Cover cancellation point. pletely rebuilt and restored. The tires for To this end the Winnipeg Police Museum the Reo were obtained from a Firestone was honoured a second time with the creaFactory in New Zealand which makes tires tion ofa special cancellation stamp which depicted the logo of the museum. for antique vehicles.
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Search By Campus Security Did Not Breach Accused Rights Regina v. Fitch (1994) R.C.C.A. A Victoria area campus security officer who conducted a warrantless search of a student's residence was not a "state agent" for the purposes of the Charter, a unanimous B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled. In a September decision, Mr. Justice Ian T. Donald concluded that Edwin Richard Fitch's Charter 8 right to be secure against an unreasonable search had not been violated. In upholding the student's conviction on possession of stolen property the court ruled that no Charter breach had occurred because the appellant had not shown that the University of Victoria's security personnel were state agents. "The Charter controls state action, not the behaviour of actors in the private sphere," said the judge. Two other Justices concurred with the ruling. In July 1993, UVIC Security Officer William Ward entered Mr. Fitch's room after the student was shown to be in arrears of rent. While there, Mr. Ward noticed
some items on adeskwhich were similarto equipment in a theft report. The following day, a second security officer, John Werth, who had seen Mr. Ward's report, entered Mr. Fitch's room and discovered more stolen items. Mr. Werth's supervisor then radioed the police who, after entering the room and being shown the various items of suspected stolen property, later returned with a search warrant. Mr. Fitch was charged and convicted on four counts of possession of stolen property. At the orignial trial the presidingjudge found that the security officer's entry into the room, and the subsequent entry of the police, violated Section 8 of the Charter but determined that the evidence shou Id be admitted. Mr. Fitch appealed, but Mr. Justice Donald upheld the Crown's argument that there had been no breach ofthe Charter. He said it had not been shown that the secutity
personnel were state agents. The judge expressed concern that the privacy of university and college students living in residence might be at risk "by a finding that private security officers operate free from Charter sanctions." But he said: "I do not think that this decision, when understood in the light of its unusual facts, will pose a significant risk to students' privacy. The record in this case does not contain proofthat the security officers were state agents. "I leave for another case the question whether, on proper evidence, those employed to provide security for large, publicly funded institutions, such as a universities, take on the mantle of state agents by reason of the character of their employer and the nature of their duties." He also concluded that there was not enough of a link between the police and the security officers to determine that the security officers should be treated for Charter purposes as agents for the police. tor may make the match appear better than
Study Casts Doubts On Accuracy Of it actually is." By contrast, in the show-up, the witness sees the task as giving a simple Police Lineups yes or no. The police line-up, popularized in countless movies and television programs and long presumed to be fair, actually may force witnesses to incorrectly identify criminal suspects, according to a new study published by researchers at the universities of Washington and Michigan. The researchers discovered people will more readily pick a suspect from a line-up than from a show-up. A show-up is another police identification procedure where only one suspect is presented face-to-face to a crime victim or witness. Unfortunately, many of those identified in line-ups may be innocent. The study, conducted by Richard Gonzalez, University of Washington assistantprofessorofpsychology, and Phoebe Ellsworth, University of Michigan professor of law and psychology, is the first comparison of line-ups and show-ups. Although the two methods had not been evaluated before, the common view in the legal system and among psychologists and eyewitness testimony experts was that line-ups were fairer and less suggestive, said Gonzalez. But data from three studies comparing the techniques, published in the current issue of the Journal of
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Personality and Social Psychology, contradict that notion. However, he cautioned that both identification procedures are subject to mistakes. "It is little like pitting two errors against each other. People seem a little triggerhappy with line-ups and are more likely to select an innocent person as the suspect. But with show-ups, people are more reluctant to identify anyone so the guilty party may be set free," said Gonzalez. "The tendency to respond 'yes' (pick a suspect) in the line-up and 'no' in the show-up was striking." Why are line-ups more suggestive than previously believed? "Unfortunately, everyone has thought that the presence of look-alikes or foils in a line-up causes witnesses to be more cautious," said Gonzalez. "But when several options are present, the witness searches the line-up parade for the person who most resembles his or her memory ofthe perpetrator, and the witness may choose the best match, even ifit's not perfect." The process of finding the best match may give the witness a sense of accomplishment, he said, "and the presence of five people who look less like the perpetra-
Gonzalez and Ellsworth contend that their studies dismiss the notion that showups are more biased than line-ups. They believe people are more cautious when it comes to identifying a single suspect face to face in a show-up, which is one reason why more suspects were selected from line-ups than show-ups both in the simulated crimes and the California field study. The researchers also suggest police exert more subtle pressure to make the "right" identification in line-ups than showups. During a show-up, police usually have little confidence that they have apprehended the criminal. Usually they have arrested a suspect who fits a general description or seems out of place in a neighbourhood. What they are really after is information. A "no" answer from the witness is as acceptable as a "yes." When the police conduct a line-up, however, they usually believe that they have detained the right person. But this strong belief substantially increases the risk of mis-identification when that assumption is wrong, they conclude. For additional information contact Gonzalez on (206) 685-1572 or Ellsworth on (313) 763-5781 or (313) 747-3609.
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...news beat ....news beat ... newS beat Haitian Police Training at the RCMP Academy On aturday, October 8, 1994, the first troop of Ilaitian expatriate trainees arrived at the RCMP Training Academy in Regina, askatchewan, to commence their training in basic police techniques. In accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding signed Augu t31, I 994,betweenthegovernment of Canada and the Republic of Ilaiti, thc RCMP will upply ba ic police training for up to 100 expatriate IIaitians at the R MP Training Academy.
Firearms Surrendered During Amnesty Non-registered weapons were till being forfeited to police as week eleven came to a close in the fourteen week Ontario government amnesty program. Figures relea ed by the Chief Provincial Firearms Office revealed that in one week, 25 nonregistered handguns and two retricted handguns were reported to have been surrendered. In addition, four non-registered military assault-type weapons were turned in. The amncsty program, which began on Wednesday, June 1,1994, has been re ponsible for the seizure of a number of firearms. The collected items include 744 pistols and revolvers aside from 102 military assault-type weapons, 504 shotguns and 1,034 non-restricted riOe . itizens have also turned in 378 "ncar firearms" consisting of pellet guns, BB guns, starter pistols and replica firearms. Bullets and shotgun shells came to a total of 117,446. Non-firearms weapons, such as cro sbows, machetes, rna e and martial arts devices were also collected. On the larger end of the calc 464 explosive devices, con isting of sticks of dynamite and pieces of military ordnance have been collected. The amnesty program ran in Ontario until August 3 I, 1994.
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The training program these candidates were will last 12 weeks for each quite articulate and in of the four troops that most cases well educommenced October 11th, cated. Most were eager 24th, and 3 1st (2 troops) to commence training HAITI and even more eager to respectively. The Ilaitian expatriates arrived return to their country after several in Regina by chartered bus from years of absence. Montreal. Members of the media The initiative is the result of were invited to attend a press con- bilateral discussions that were unference at II :00 A.M. in the Drill dertaken between the Canadian and Ilall of the RCMP Training Acad- Haitian government. The goal of emy. the program is to develop Haitian The RCMP "Haitian Police Police personnel trained in policing in a democratic society who Training Project" Coordinator provided an overview ofthis initiative would return to Haiti to assist in with the assistance of Training the process of democratization. Academy personnel and a repreFunding for the training of the 100 officers will total $1.65 milsentative of the University of Regina School of Human Justice. The lion and is being borne by the Haitian Police trainees were in at- Canadian International Developtendance and available for inter- ment Agency (CIDA). views following the press conferThe development and manageence. ment principles of the program have It was quickly determined that been established jointly between
the RCMP International Training Branch and representatives of the Haitian Government. The Haitian Police Training Program is based on a shortened model of training used by the RCMP for its trainees and modified to include principles ofpolicing in a democracy. Included changes in the basic course will also include extensive training in Hatian laws and theoretical principles of human rights in a democracy. Lecturers from the Haitian community in Montreal and the University of Regina School of Human Justice will provide infonnation on policing in a democratic society; international and Haitian laws and charters; philosophies and principles of democracies; and policing a politically divided society. The first graduation will be January 4, 1995.
Poor Police Response Time Reason for Vigilante Defence A 44-year-old druggest from a small town in southern Ontario has been found not guilty of using a reSteven Bowskill volvertoassist in the capture of two burglars attempting to enter his store. At the trial the store owner cited the fact that he found the average police response time to calls in the town was over 30 minutes. A packed courtroom in Brighton, Ontario, broke into applause when gun charges against pharmacist Steve Bowskill were dismissed by Judge John Bark. Bowskill was charged when he shot the rear tire out of a getaway vehicle after his Colborne drug store was robbed for the seventh time in two years last February. Thejudge described Bowskill as an "honest, law-abiding small businessman" who had learned "from bitter experience" that there would be no police response for at least 30 minutes. The judge concluded that given the circumstances
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Bowskill 's conduct did not show a marked departure from the actions a reasonable and prudent person would take. He also pointed out that private citizens are justified in effecting a legal arrest provided they only use as much force as is reasonably necessary. Court was told Bowskill, a skilled marksman, was armed with a Colt .38 when he surprised two men who had jimmied open the front door to his drug store. He ordered them to put their hands in the air but instead the suspects ran to a van parked down the street. Bowskill ran behind them and fired two rounds from his revolver into the van's rear tire. Police captured the suspects a short time later and they were eventually convicted. Ontario Provincial Police have been coming under considerable criticism regarding their closing down of police detachments and increased response times. Small time drug traffickers from cities have realized the reduced risk of capture by hitting small town drug stores and in many cases are only too aware of police response times
in many locations around the province. It has been noted in the media that in some cases police responding to emergency calls must drive as much as 60 miles at certain times of the day. Critics have reported causes for the delays are due to cost cutting by the police agency and decreased funding from the Provincial government. In a timeofbudget restraints from the province critics have reported the OPP and Solicitor General's office have been aggressively selling themselves to municipalities to obtain their police budgets and disband their existing forces. Some areas have reported a reduction in police response when police, who would nonnally police the towns, are responding to calls elsewhere. One side effect appears to be an increase in insurance rates in areas not possessing their own police agencies or too small to warrant regular police patrols. Insurance industry people report that areas deemed to have inadequate policecoverageareatriskofhigher rates.
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·.. news beat ... news beat ... news beat 28 Recommendations In Range Accident Inquest After months of investigation the verdict of the coroner's jury into the death of Constable Jeffrey Paolozzi of Niagara Region Police was recently published in a seven page report. The document covers, among other subjects, firearms, training and range safety as well as a list of general recommendations. In general, the jury recommended that the Niagara Regional Police acquire a firing range for
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their own use and that the Joint Health and Safety Committee review the range safety rules to ensure that they cover all aspects of firearm and range safety. Jeffrey 1. Paolozzi had been respected and highly regarded over his ten year career on the force. The officer was a knowledgeable weapons handler and marksman who was well versed in emergency tactics. Unfortunately, the officer's life came to an end on February 6, 1993, as the result of a gunshot wound which Paolozzi sustained when the weapon of a fellow of-
Eleven Canadian Officers Arrive In Haiti
Cltief Supt. Neil Pouliot The first contingent of eleven RCMP officers left for Haiti last month under the auspices of the United Nations Protection Forces and headed up by Chief Superintendent Neil Pouliot. Pouliot will become the chief commissioner of a multi-nation police force for the next nine months under the terms of the UN Resolution 940. The resolution will place Pouliot in command of600 police officers from 8 nattons. The RCMP will be eventually supplying 100 of the officers required. The officer's duty will be to oversee Haiti's police, ensuring they act in a spirit of non-discrimination and protection of human rights. Another detail will be establishing a training program for current and future police officers.
One ofthe biggest problems to be faced by the multi-national force is the fact that the majority of Hat ian police are supporters of the deposed military regime. The officers are not trusted by the population and the concepts of policing the civillian masses have been greatly hampered by years of violence and hatred. One spokesman suggested it would be around 10 years before Haiti obtains a police force ofany real professional standing. ChiefSupt. Pouliot comes with an impressive 32-year career with the RCMP. He is fluently bilingual and grew up in Niagra Falls, Ontario. He served in Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan. In addition he has worked as an instructor at the Academy in Regina and worked on a variety of details over the years including white collar crime and drug trafficking. Considered an expert on organized international crime, Pouliot has worked c10sley with European-based INTERPOL and has extensive experience assisting with the investigation of international drug dealers. In an interview with MacLean's Magazine Pouliot stated the Hatian people "have never had any reason before to trust or respect their police. Our challenge," he added, "is to convice the people that the police force should be seen as part of the solution, not the problem."
ficer accidentally discharged. The bullet penetrated Paolozzi's abdomen and caused massive bleeding which led to his death. The fatal accident took place at a police shooting range in a rural area of Thorold, Ontario. Paolozzi and another officer arrived at the range around 8 a.m. on a cold Saturday morning. The two men entered a IS·by 20 metre Quonset hut and prepared for a training exercise. The accident occurred about an hour later. The officer died of a shot from a semi-automatic 9mm Glock which had recently been issued to Niagara's tactical unit. Fellow officers called an ambulance which took Paolozzi to St. Catherine's General Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Thirty-two year old Paolozzi had been a member of the tactical unit since 1986. He was a highly skilled sniper who was called upon in crucial situations when weapons expertise and a cool head were needed. Among other recommendations the jury also felt that firearm unloading stations should be established in all areas where weapons would likely be loaded or unloaded. In addition they also recommended that a separate area for cleaning weapons be provided. In regards to firearms, the jury felt that no other firearms should
be purchased by the Niagara Regional Police Force until the appointed instruction officer has been trained to use the weapon by the manufacturer. The instructor would have to meet Provincial Standards and would then be the only person to instruct others. Another suggested precaution was a proposal to convert the Glock pistols the Niagara Regional Police possess from the standard trigger pull to the New York trigger pull, to comply with Ontario Regulation 926. Recommendations for improving range safety are fairly basic. Thejury suggests that officers wear protective vests at all time while inside the range and that no loaded weapons, other than those which are to remain holstered, be allowed at the range. The jury also stated that the a Standing Order should be issued which will prohibit unauthorized or unsupervised training involving "use of force". Training improvements which were suggested included the development of "General Gun I landling" rules for the province of Ontario. This task would be undertaken by a committee of civilians and police officers who would be responsible for addressing proper skills and techniques required for the safe use of firearms. The full text ofthe recommendations will be supplied in the December issue of Blue Line.
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fully used by police officers. The P.I.T. Dummy is a creative soluPolice Impact Training Dummy tion. It offers greater application of fightby Olana Koss
In one of those serendipitous acts from which genius springs, Cst. David Kip.erchuk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Pollce c.reated a training device that does a better Job than what is currently being used, is cost efficient and uses a recyclable product. Introduced to other Police Departments at the 'Use of Force Trainers' Conference hosted by Peel Regional Police at Brampton, Ontario on September 12to 16 thePolicelmpactTraining (P.I.T.) Du:nmy got an enthusiastic response as its improved application was readily recognized. It all began in the basement of Kiperchuk's home which is outfitted as training gym and children's play ar~a . One day while the constable was strIkIng a heavy bag with a police bat~n, his youn!? son began striking a tire swing. KI~e~chuk gu Icldy realized the advantage of strIkIng a tIre, the most important being neither the tire or baton sustained any damage. . Since the tire swing was too low, It was raised to "centre body height"which proved to be limited in its practicality. The single tire did not allow for quick multi-level blows similar to striking a blocking pad held by a cooperative partner. In its second stage of development, Kiperchuk attached three tires hanging straight down ~r~ad to tread. This allowed a greater versatIlIty for combination strikes at multi levels. Finally, adapting principles ofa \yingchun wooden dummy (from the ChInese martial art popularized by the late Bruce Lee) Kiperchuk came up with the final creation: The P.I.T. Dummy. It can be struck with boots or any kind of impact weapon. it can be moved safely by a partnerto incorporate lateral, forward and backward movements, essentially producing a "virtual reality" in training, a simulation of human movement. One of the problems police offic7rs face today, even with the new protectIve suits is that in real life situations they must use r~al impact weapons and not the lightweight versions used in training. With the P.I.T. Dummy,actual impact weapons can be used in training affording a more accurate simulation. In addition, the dummy provides officers with the awa~eness .of appendages - dynamic human beIngs WIth arms and not static like a heavy bag. Material for the P.I.T. Dummy is a readily available resource, economical and promotes environmental recycling of used tire pro ucts. It is easily used both indoors and outside, is resilientso that impactweapon will not be damaged. It allows for using a knife (a cut up tire can ~asily be replaced), striking, kicking, elbo~mg, tr~p ping movements and body targetIng - WIth a heavy bag the awareness of.body tar~et ing is lost. It allows for lea.rnt.ng blockIng techniques, incorporates tImIng and gap
ing skills, is environment friendly. an?, best of all, in a time of fiscal restraInt, IS relatively inexpensive and long lasting. Cst. Daryl Kiperchuk has instructed defensive baton and police custody tecltniquesfor the RCMP and is currently a member of a tactical troop.
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distancing, and significantly, allows the wearing of police boots in training. Instructors in the use of impact weapons are familiar with the cost of replacement of damaged blocking pads and heavy bags used in training. Cost-conscious departments resi~t frequent. replacement of equipment whIch ranges In cost from $75 to $200 each. Trained officers who practice daily to maintain a certain level of proficiency with police impact weap~ns have had to resort to striking air to practIce their skills. It's not an uncommon sight to see a hanging departmental h.eav~, bag w!t~ a sign posted nearby statmg lY.0 ~tnkl~g with impact Weapons and/or Klckmg with Police Bools On. " For good reason. They are not constructed of material that is resilient enough to withstan? the ~ontinu~)Us ripping, puncturing, t~artng strtkes ?f Impact weapons or polIce boots. Wlt~OUt realizing it, police garages and maIntenance people are disposing of valuable training equipment which have not been
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Making the Right Decisions The Altaris CAD and RMs system is based on an open systems architecture. [t is not dependant upon platform, operating system, workstation, presentation manager or data base. The Altaris system runs in a true client/server environment. It will support a variety of data base servers including Digital Equipment's VAX servers underOpenVMS, DEC' s Alpha servers with either OpenVMS or OSFIl, Hewlett Packard servers, or IBM RISC 6000 servers. It will support a homogenous environment ofclient workstations including DOSI Windows, WindowsfNT, OS/2, Apple Macintosh , X-Windows , or Motif
workstations. And the Altaris application will support several different relational data base management systems (RDBMS) including Oracle, Sybase, and [ngres.
Features The Altaris application supports the incident entry procedure by processing information from your E-9-l-l system interface and allowing the call-taker to enter and update incidents in response to calls. The system will allow the operator to view incident locations on the integrated map display or schedule incidents for future dispatch. It accommodates differential police response and the entry of supplemental incident information for suspect persons and vehicles. Dispatchers can monitor incident and unit locations and status on the map display, provide recommendations, update unit status, and send narrative text messages and notifications. The Altaris CAD system supports field operations by allowing the operator to assign additional units to active incidents, update unit activity and incident status, generate service requests, and record filed-initiated activity. Supervisors can also perform mainte-
nance on key system files such as incident type, unit, unit assignment, addresses and interactions, common place names, and catalogued alarms. TheAltaris system also generates valuable reports show ing response times, analyzing incident distribution by type, time of day and geography, and summarizing officer activity.
Interfaces The Altaris system supports all of the required public safety system interfaces including your E-9-1 -1- ANI!ALI system, several third-party mapping and GIS systems, mobile digital terminals (both traditional MDT's and full-function laptop terminals), all of the major manufacturers' trunked and conventional voice radio systems, and automatic vehicle location GPS systems. PRC also provides comprehensive RMS interfaces to the RCMP' s CPIC system and Statistics Canada's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system.
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BARRDAY, ING. Barrday is independent and Canadian owned. Its headquarters, weaving, finishing and pressing facility is located in Cambridge, Ontario and its cut and sew facility is located in Arnprior, Ontario. Since 1981 when it first entered the body armour market with a line of buIlet resistant vests for civilian police departments, Barrday has maintained its position as the premiere supplier of soft and hard armour to Canadian military, para-military, police forces and security agencies across Canada. Burrday enjoys a distinct competitive advantage in that it is the only vertically
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Canadian Body Armour Ltd. has manufactured ~ soft body armour for ARMOUR Canadian Police since 1981 . In 1993 operations moved to Brampton in order to expand the production facilities. Canadian now offers a customer service centre with fitting areas, meeting and show rooms. Canadian Body Armour's emphasis has always been on providing state of the art products with special emphasis on service to thier customers. They work with all levels oflaw enforcement from the officer in uniform , emergency response, canine, drug, inteIligence and marine units to personnel in purchasing and financing to enure they are offering products which work weIl for both the end user and the agency. Although their primary focus is on the manufacture of the latest in soft body armour, their product line has expanded to include special operations equipment for tactical and rescue units . Canadian Body Armour' s latest item is a firearms loading! unloading station suitable for any location where firearms are being handled. For more information contact:
integrated company whose capabilities include fabric weaving, end garment fabrication and composite armour pressing. The company's newest offerings include: I. A custom tailored female vest whose fit and comfort is unparalleled. 2. Three tactical vests; one side opening, one front opening and one for use in warm climates. 3. Many armour upgrades including hard armour plates, anti-trauma pads and two levels of sharp instrument protection. 4. Several ballistic blankets for use in lining shelters or evacuating injured personnel. 5. A moisture dissipating lined internal carrier lining. . 6. A "clean look" external carrier that accepts Barrday hill-wrap concealable ballistic pads.
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When Pacific Safety Products Inc., began manufacturing body armour in 1990 the big question many people asked was why? Why would a f"'L.......<ai~:=,;~ company known worldwide for manufacturing emergency medical kits become involved in designing and producing body armour. The answer, in short, was that they were concerned about people's safety. Pacific Body Armour began to manufacture armour in response to the numerous inquiries and growing requests by paramedics for protection against bullet and knife attacks. Before becoming involved in the body armour field the Research and Development Department consulted with their customers mainly: police agencies, paramedics and military personnel. Their goal was to ensure the finished product would be functional and provide high performance. Today the Research and Development Department at Pacific Body Armour still tests new and existing products to ensure they meet or exceed industry standards for safety and protection. Pacific Body Armour realizes thattheir armour is used in a variety of high-risk professions and therefore the armour must adapt to unforeseen situations.
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PRoTICH ARMOR PRODUCTS Protech Arm ored Products was founded in 1984 to manufacture and market ballistic protective vests. Since that time, Protech has expanded their product lines to include a full range of riot and ballistic equipment for personnel and vehicle applications. The list of equipment includes helmets, faceshields, portable shields (riot and ballistic), vests, bomb blankets, and EOI search and disarmament suits. Each ofthese products have been developed and are manufactured by Protech Armored Products. Mr. Martino, the president of the corporation, continues to manage the development of new products and maintains a "hands on" profile during the planning, engineering, and testing of the prototypes. This allows for immediate communication with technicians and engineers with a constant exchange of ideas and knowledge. This policy, and the input from our cus-
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tomers in the military and law enforcement arenas allow fast response to customer needs with new or modified products. Protech's innovative approach to ballistic systems enable protection in a wide variety of applications. Military aircraft, fixed and rotary wing, as well as overland vehicles, watercraft and personnel carriers have all benefited from this technology. Individual Body protection systems can be field modified to different Threat Level ratings by inserting or removing ballistic plates via existing pockets. Areas of body protection are also variable with attachable shoulder, collar and groin protection for many vest and body armour products.
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PROTECTIVE PRODUCTS CORP. Protective Products International Corp. located in Sunrise, Florida, has improved on the unblemished safety record of body armour. At the suggestion of and in close cooperation with tactical teams from around the country, Protective Products has modified its tactical response vests to incorporate side and
ted fabrication technique called ButterSECOND CHANCE 80DY ARAtOR en fly Lite. The Butterfly process offers supeSecond Chance Body Armor has, like most other companies, strived to bring officers comfortable soft body armour. Second Chance's newest line of armour known as Monarch, offers superior comfort, concealability and performance. Monarch is constructed with a ballistic fabric called Araflex IV. Araflex is manufactured for Second Chance exclusively with its properties under patent law. The Monarch Armour includes a patover-the-shoulder closures only. The move away from front-opening vests, either zippered or velcroed, is carefully made to further reduce the probability of projectiles "sneaking" in past armour overlaps. The vests still retain their ease of use and comfort while their safety level is vastly increased. Protective Products is known in the industry as the company that introduced the still new "factory-direct body armour"
rior multi-hit performance and reduced blunt trauma, without being stiff, thick and plastic-like. In addition, Second Chance has replaced water-proof ballistic layers and air retentive covers with their new Gore-Tex Comfort Cool ballistic cover on all Monarch panels. The Gore-Tex panel cover gives water and oil repellency while still allowing ' breathability' . Together, the Araflex, Butterfly Lite and Gore-Tex Comfort Cool combine to give every officer wearable body armour.
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Officers Receive Canadian Banks' Law Enforcement Award
Detective Sergeal/t Joh" Keays (Reid.)
Detective ergeal/t Brial/ McCready
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Three police officers received the Canadian Bank ' Law Enforcement Award ( BL ' A)onAugu t23 during a ceremony which will to k place in Montreal at the nnual conference of the Canadian Association of hiefs of Police (CACP). Th yare: Detective ergeant Brian Mc ready of the Metropolitan Toronto P lice; etective Michael McDonald of th M tropolitan Toronto Police and Sergeant etective John Keays (retired) ofthe Montreal Urban Community Police. The Award, which consists of a gold m dal and citation, is prestigious and highly coveted in police circles. It is presented nnually by the anadian Bankers Assoiation ( BA) to police officers for outtanding action in combating bank-related crime. The Award was launched in 1972. Thi year' presentation at the Queen 'Iizabeth Ilotel in Montreal, followed a dinner attended by some 300 police chiefs rcpre enting anadian law enforcement agencie from coast to coast. Mr. eon ourville, President and Chief perating fficer, National Bank of anada, and member of the Executive oun il of the BA, presented the gold medals. I Ie wa assisted by CACP President hief William McCormack, Metropolitan Toronto Police. The 1994 recipients bring the number of Canadian police officers who have received the BLEA gold medal to 157. Detective Sergeant Brian McCready and Detective Michael McDonald uring the months of June and July 1993, four IS branches were robbed by four armed and violent individuals. With the e ception of the license number of a po sible u pect vehicle provided by a citizen following the first robbery comm it-
ted by the gang, police had no leads as to the identity of the gunmen. Early in their investigation, Detectives McCready and McDonald established that the license plate number in question was a registered "ghost car". That is, the registrant's name was likely fictitious. Despite a lengthy verification of official records, no such person could be found. The two officers did not give up, but began a laborious process of attempting to locate other references to the vehicle in question. Municipal parking records going back a number of years were reviewed for possible violations; however, without success. The two officers spent hours at the Ministry ofTransportation and Communications office reviewing old motor vehicle records. Their tenacity paid off, when an old accident report (2-3 years earlier) involving the suspect vehicle was located. Further inquiries revealed that the individual who was driving the car at the time ofthe accident had acriminal record dating back several years. The two officers then set about attempting to locate the individual and the suspect vehicle. They concentrated their search in a particular area of Metro Toronto because the robberies believed to have been committed by the suspect in question and his accomplices occurred in that municipality. Because both officers lived in the area, much of their investigative efforts took place on their own time. Their thoroughness in the investigation and subsequent search was rewarded when both the suspect and the vehicle were located in late July. Detectives McCready and McDonald launched an extensive police surveillance operation and, assisted by fellow officers, the four suspects were arrested following a
fifth hold-up againstanotherCISC branch. Based on the evidence gathered by officers McCready and McDonald, all four accused are now serving lengthy prison terms. Detective Sergeant John Keays (Retd. ) Endless patience, unshakeable determination and a keen sense of duty. This description sums up the behaviourofformer Detective Sergeant John Keays, now retired from the Montreal Urban Community Police Department, in investigating a major commercial fraud ring that operated for several years. Mr. Keays even agreed to remain on the case after he retired. [t was an extremely complex case regarding a fraud ring involving some [00 people - including lawyers, notaries, professional appraisers, mortgage loan officers at various financial institutions, and a mortgage broker - who had taken part in fraudulent transactions involving $1 0 million and the sale of about ISO properties. About 10 banks were the targets of this vast scheme, including the Bank of Montreal, the CISC and Bank of America Canada. To provide an idea of the scope of the work accomplished by Mr. Keays and his team during the investigation, 226 charges were heard by seven Superior Court judges, the case then went to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, 25 motions of all types were made by the defence, some 20 lawyers worked on the case and 304 witnesses provided testimony. The files, reports, statements and other documents pertammg to the case filled 60 boxes. Th is exhaustive effort resulted in IS of the 17 defendants being convicted. Detective Sergeant Keays never counted the hours he spent on the case and often sacrificed his family life for it. He proved beyond a doubt that he was a police officer of great determination. He meets the selection criteria for the Canadian Banks' Law Enforcement Award perfectly.
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Officer Collecting Xmas Presents For Needy Kids by Myron Love For the second year running, RCMP officer Tom Lowden is spearheading a campaign to collect and gift wrap Christmas presents for underprivileged children on Manitoba reserves. Last year, the sixyear veteran of the force distributed 700 toys to children on three reserves and reserve children at the Children ' s Hospital in Winnipeg. This year, he hopes to give away 1,200 to 1,500 gifts including hockey sticks and nets and hockey cards. Lowden, who is stationed in Selkirk, just North of Winnipeg, started Gifts for Kids last year because he saw how many Christmas presents his own three children received every year and felt it wasn't right when there were other kids who had nothing to look forward to on Christmas Day. Last year, he and the other members of his detachment spent two to three nights wrapping the presents. This year, he says, because of the size of the project, he has approached a local elementary school for help. Every child has been encouraged to bring a gift under $10 to schoo I. The parents' comm ittee wi II wrap the gifts. " We are working on an ongoing type of big brotherrelationship between our school here and one up north," Lowden says. Another project Lowden has initiated this year is the Onside Program whereby police officers take underprivileged teens (aged II - 17) who have had run-ins with the law, to Winnipeg Blue Bomber and Winnipeg Jets games. He hopes the Onside Program will become a national program.
News Briefs On October 13, 1994 the State of Virginia passed a bill abolishing Parole. In a recent press release by Virginia Governor George Allen it was noted that the legislation abolishing Parole was overwhelmingly adopted in a special session of the General Assembly in September. The new bill specifies all persons committed to prison for offences on or after January 1, 1995, will not be eligible for parole of any kind. The Supreme Court ofCan ad a ruled in a September judgement that officers arresting persons in Provinces who posses a state funded free legal advice line must notify the arrested persons about this service and supply the number to the arrested person. If the province does not have a system set up they are not obliged to set one up and officers, of course, need not give such a warning.
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Acting as an aerial command center, the MD 520N tracked the car from about 500 feet through the streets of Calgary. " Because it's so quiet, I doubtthey ever heard us coming," Brown said. The two youths later abandoned the car, but were unable to elude police because the helicopter was hovering above, keeping ground units aware of their movement by radio. When the chase was over, the suspects were captured, the car was recovered and the police reported that "without the heli-
copter, we ' d still be looking for them." Even the local newspaper, The Calgary Sun, acknowledged in an editorial that it was changing its mind about helicopters for law enforcement. "Frankly, "the editorial began, "we 're always a bit skeptical of those hawking high-tech solutions to every problem. But we're willing to suspend our disbeliefwhen it comes to HA WCS - a super-sophisticated helicopter Calgary police foresee as their eye-in-the-sky to help track and catch all manner of crooks. "
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