Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable committee members, and fellow witnesses, it's an honour and a privilege to appear before you today to assist you in your deliberations regarding Bill C-19. I'm a sergeant with the Saskatoon Police Service, with almost 25 years of service protecting the c

Public Safety committee  The registry is a police-access database. To the best of my knowledge, firefighters do not have access to it, paramedics do not have access to it, social workers do not have direct access to it. From my experience and my position when I was in professional standards, to divulge

Public Safety committee  I've worked with the wildlife officers within our jurisdiction. I don't come into much contact with federal fisheries and wildlife officers.

Public Safety committee  Universal precautions are used any time any one of my people go to a residence. I try to get to as many domestic disturbances as I can, because I find that the presence of a supervisor there, someone of senior rank, tends to help people out. And to the best of my knowledge, I kno

Public Safety committee  Handguns.

Public Safety committee  Handguns and knives.

Public Safety committee  Knives are a far more predominant as weapons than rifles, shotguns, and handguns.

Public Safety committee  Mostly we encounter knives--

Public Safety committee  --because they are secreted on the person, and often when they are found, they are found in various places like.... For some people we've transported to our detention centre, when they get searched really closely or skin-searched in our detention area, we end up finding weapons o

Public Safety committee  Oh, by far.

Public Safety committee  We don't do that on street checks. When we're doing a street check of an individual, that's not something that my people do: we query CPIC. Through CPIC, running somebody's licence plate will automatically generate a CPIC query on the individual. That will bring up whether he has

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I have one question for Mr. Leef.

Public Safety committee  When you say “accessing a registry”, what are you asking?