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Justice committee  Yes, it is. It is community-based policing, but community-based policing, as you're aware, is delivered in different ways. We call ours our community response model, where we go out and work with communities. We have officers who specialize in partnerships with government, non-go

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  We had our first case of human trafficking earlier this year. A group that has become national in scope was moving women across the province for the purposes of dancing and prostitution. That was the first case I've seen.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  On the contraband, no.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  For the most part, the guns are local. They are guns that people legally own and have in their homes, and they mostly come from break and enters and thefts.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  As my colleagues have talked about, in past investigations we've seen things coming through the ports and going to other organized crime groups, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, and then coming back down, in and through.... There have been cases where some of these people who

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  No, I'm sorry, it wasn't.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  It's pretty much the same for me, except that we've civilianized some of those highly technical areas, and hopefully we can keep the civilian in those positions longer than officers who want to be promoted and do other things.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  Yes. I like you.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  I mentioned witness protection, but I put the word “funded” in front of it. The Government of Canada, through the oversight of the RCMP, does have a federal witness protection program, and it's a very good one. I have absolutely no criticism of the program. But for me to use it,

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  It's a special cost. It's above and beyond my budget. I go back to the city and I tell them I have a situation and I'm going to spend this kind of money. That's my total cost over the last number of years. Putting someone in today, for the next two years, would probably cost $150

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  Obviously someone had to replace the vacuum. So, yes, street gangs and other types of criminal groups that are a little bit higher up on the food chain, if I can say that, have come in and replaced that void.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  Yes, the community. The fear of crime in my community is at an all-time high, as never before.

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley

Justice committee  I can't give you exact numbers, but I've had four gang-related shootings so far this year where people died. I've had somewhere in excess of 18 attempted murders this year where these gangs did drive-by shootings, shootings into homes and into cars. We had a shooting late last ye

October 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chief Frank A. Beazley