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Public Safety committee I agree with what you're suggesting. The only concern I would raise is that the problem with just expunging that record—or deleting that record, to use your term—is that there are records that exist elsewhere in other databases. You need to still have some kind of an accompanying
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee Thank you.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee If it is automatic, how do you determine the nature of those additional offences to determine whether there is a public safety risk or not?
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee I couldn't comment specifically on the number, but that doesn't surprise me that the number would be relatively low. As I said in my remarks, in my experience police organizations have de-prioritized targeting people for simple possession, particularly cannabis, for quite some ti
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee Anecdotally, it's not unusual in my experience that people don't pursue getting a pardon or having a record expunged. It's a step that people have to take, so it's not uncommon for me to come across people in my work who could apply for a pardon, or an expungement of some other r
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee I will get you a few examples from a few jurisdictions. I don't know if you want me to send them on to the committee.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee Were we directly consulted? Not in an extensive way. We had some exchanges, but we didn't have a specific consultation with respect to this bill.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee I couldn't give you a specific answer. It varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee My home service is in Vancouver, and to be very blunt about it, I haven't dealt with a record check or any fingerprinting for some time in that jurisdiction. I don't know what the cost is at the moment.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Public Safety committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to appear before you this afternoon as part of your committee's ongoing study of Bill C-93. I'm appearing this afternoon on behalf of the Canadian Police Association, which, as many of you know, is
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Justice committee We can take roadside stops as an example. If as a police officer, as part of my lawful stop, I can make a demand without having to build my reasonable suspicion that a person is impaired, then that should, theoretically, speed up the process, because I won't have to develop those
September 18th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Justice committee Just as an example, the typical framework would be the holiday road checks that police organizations conduct across the country. As it stands now, I approach the car, if I'm working one of those, and I have to ask the driver questions. I'm relying on those answers to be able to m
September 18th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Justice committee Yes, I believe it will, and that's certainly the feedback. If I compare to what some of the provinces have done, and I'll use my home province of British Columbia, based on experience of the regulations that the provincial government introduced around the administrative prohibi
September 18th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Justice committee Well, training is a concern, anticipating that the demand for drug recognition experts will increase. Having said that, police officers give evidence in court every day. I can recall that when I was an operational police officer, some of the most challenging evidence to give was
September 18th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis
Justice committee No, I have not yet heard much feedback from that experience, so I can't really comment. There are concerns around weather, reliability, and those kinds of things. Of course, whatever equipment we end up using will inevitably have to be proven in court as being reliable as we mo
September 18th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Stamatakis