I hope it ends up being.... I heard it correctly; the question came through. It was about the sharing of data for repeat offences and bail.
The awareness I have on this is that when individuals are repeatedly committing offences, that information is obtained and held within the court system. At this point in time, individuals are coming before the courts and that information is not readily available and shared appropriately with the judge or the person who is making the future decisions about whether that individual should receive bail or not.
We feel it is appropriate that the information be looked upon. It goes back to the reference I mentioned of 15 individuals in Kelowna in 2024 who had 1,336 offences. Each of them had 80 situations of reoccurrences with police files within one year, and they continued repeatedly to not be held accountable for those situations.
