I can only speak for the Saskatoon Police Service. Any time we come into contact with anybody, we enter that into our data banks so that we have a record of it. I think it's useful for us in our work. If there are future occasions where we come across that youth, we know the background of that youth, and we can, I think, deal with it more appropriately because we then actually have a written, documented background. You're not going by hearsay or what somebody thinks or somebody knows, but you actually have some proof to say, this is what happened with the youth before. It helps us work with the social agencies when we're trying to get the youth help. Once again, if it gets that serious that we must lay a criminal charge, it helps us put a background to it.
On June 8th, 2010. See this statement in context.