Justice committee  To truthfully answer that question, it's yes, I have. But if the wording is “Do you have a criminal record?”, then no.

Justice committee  I have no concern, Mr. Chair.

Justice committee  If I can answer, Mr. Chair. It's well known. If you Google my name it's undercover everything. The only concern that I have is my face. You can post anything you want and I appreciate that. Thank you very much.

Justice committee  We speak to her. We let her know exactly what we do. There are a lot of misconceptions about police out there, so we explain to her exactly what we do. If she is listening, then we've made very good progress already. We try to extract information from her so we can make an assess

Justice committee  The difference is the exception, where the pimps themselves can mask as bodyguards. Now they can show up and say, “I'm her bodyguard. I'm security”. They can have huge influence. While we're there and trying to have a one-on-one conversation away from the offender, the mere prese

Justice committee  I understand that, yes.

Justice committee  It is a hot topic on every perspective. No matter what perspective you come from, there is going to be consideration or feedback from other perspectives. My perspective is coming from the victims we deal with. My perspective in the victim's perspective is: how are we protecting

Justice committee  I'll explain. Let's say under the old regime she says, “Get away from me, police officer. You're harassing me. I'm doing this on my own volition. Nobody is exploiting me. That bruise you see? I fell.” But prior to my coming to talk to her, I may already know that she's a sex work

Justice committee  I'm telling you that, honestly, from the operational perspective, the old regime for that specific charge was good for us. It allowed us to extract these girls. When they chose to walk away, they couldn't because they had to listen to us. As the chief spoke about, we have not eve

Justice committee  That was one of the tools, yes. The other tools were under the bawdy house provisions.

Justice committee  That's a very tough challenge, and I'll try to do it in generic terms. Proactive extraction of human trafficking victims is something we teach at the Canadian Police College. There are no set rules because every single victim needs different resources, individual to them. Rappor

Justice committee  First of all, this topic, as the chair and the committee know, is a hot topic. There are so many different perspectives. Again, when I speak, it's speaking directly from the voices that are trapped. From my view, when I talk about the human trafficking crime, you can't disassocia

Justice committee  We don't—

Justice committee  Thank you, sir. I want to say thank you to Mr. Chair and the committee for letting me speak today. I've been a police officer for 13 years. The last nine years I've been attached to organized crime. Within the last six years, I have been tasked with being a supervisor in the vic