Public Safety committee  Perhaps I can also add. You saw the demonstration of the Ontario software application. We are making the offer that the software application that we utilize for the Ontario registry be available and provided to the national registry, if it is the wish to upgrade it to model the O

Public Safety committee  Not that we're aware of.

Public Safety committee  I think the question you're asking is whether, at a certain point in time, an offender would be removed from the registry. Is that what you're alluding to? The piece that we were trying to highlight for Ontario is back to the pardons. We've seen a dramatic increase in the number

Public Safety committee  I would expect costs to rise. At this point, we're just over the 12,000 mark in Ontario for registered offenders. Obviously computer system capacity will need to be addressed as the registry grows, etc. There will be those types of issues, as well as technological improvements an

Public Safety committee  Access from the car would be ideal in most cases, depending upon the type of investigation. However, if it's a missing child investigation, a lot of work can go on simultaneously back at the police station, where the registry can be accessed to assist the officers in the field. A

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  That is correct. Access to the Ontario sex offender registry is governed through an Entrust PKI certificate, so it's an encryption certificate. Access to the registry is controlled, and there is monitoring of that access as well. We can terminate a police officer's access, and we

Public Safety committee  That's correct. They are flagged on CPIC, as was mentioned earlier. In Ontario, any offender who's registered with the Ontario registry is flagged as a person of special interest to police. Therefore, a CPIC notification does occur to advise the officer that an individual is a re

Public Safety committee  They would not be able to access the Ontario sex offender registry from the police vehicle itself. However, that police officer would have officers in their agency who are trained and have access to the registry who would be able to assist them in that investigation. That would b

Public Safety committee  We're not aware of a study actually being undertaken at this time. However, in our appearance before committee in April, and then again today, there were suggestions made in relation to types of research. At our last appearance there were comments in relation to recidivism. Quest

Public Safety committee  On behalf of the Canadian Association of the Chiefs of Police, we are very much in support of automatic inclusion, and the theory behind that is that the registration process is done on an annual basis. It's done in a private setting; it doesn't take a lot of time. However, it do

Public Safety committee  Good morning, everyone. Here is who must report: any offender convicted in Canada of a criteria sex offence who resides in Ontario or moves to the province; any offender found not criminally responsible for a criteria sex offence by reason of mental disorder and given an absolut