Status of Women committee  My personal wish list would be for somebody to work with me on these cases. I'm the only person assigned to this unit within the Edmonton Police Service, and there's no hope of getting anyone soon, from what I'm told. I've been asking for a couple of years. The fact that we have

Status of Women committee  Do you mean in order to alleviate the problem, or in response?

Status of Women committee  The pessimist in me says the problem will never go away. It has been around for a long time, but we're just starting to realize it. The message I would give you is that we're under-resourced when it comes to responding. I put together presentations and educational stuff all the

Status of Women committee  I don't have a good answer for you. I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  I bristle a little bit at the notion of sensitivity training. I think the problem with elder abuse and policing is that police fail to see a crime. What you have to teach police to do—particularly because police become police to investigate crime—is not to see this as an airy-fai

Status of Women committee  They need to be supported and investigated as if you don't have a witness.

Status of Women committee  I don't work within a medical model. I just understand it a little bit because of my spouse's job. But I would say that there needs to be top-down change from the medical community.

Status of Women committee  This is across the board, because homicide sections deal with the same problems. The staff do not want to get involved in a criminal prosecution.

Status of Women committee  I think a good start is the model that a lot of cities do have, which is similar to ours, and that's collaboration. I certainly agree that it is not appropriate in all situations to proceed with criminal charges. But if you can offer other services and other supports, we'll alway

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of aspects to my answer. First of all, in our situation, we have a memorandum of understanding to deal with the agencies we work with. I was once asked how that works, and I said it's actually harder but the results are better. It's complicated to bring peopl

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, and honourable members, I will start by quoting the following: ...it would be very regrettable if the older among us, after long lives of supporting others, should be left beyond the reach of legal protection in their declining years by reason of investigative diffic