Public Safety committee  The request for funding is included in the CACP resolution that I mentioned earlier today. It's not for a particular dollar figure but for financial support for the development and implementation of the enhancement we're discussing this morning.

Public Safety committee  On the funding for our registry, following up on the comments that have just been made, you're quite right that the administration, the maintenance, and the verification exercises always require resources for those purposes. Ontario has many larger municipalities and jurisdiction

Public Safety committee  Pedophilia, the sexual preference for children, is not a criminal offence. It is the acting out of a sex offence against a child that's a criminal offence and we should not lose our perspective on that. We could compare it to other sexual orientations, but a pedophile does not eq

Public Safety committee  That's one of the abilities of Ontario's model, that capacity to monitor what we would describe as inactive offenders, for a variety of reasons, and to ensure, again, that they're not considered non-compliant because, as the inspector says, they could be non-compliant in principl

Public Safety committee  Perhaps I could go back to what was mentioned earlier by Mr. MacKenzie and the invitation that we would certainly and wholeheartedly accept. By actually seeing the demonstration, obviously with hypothetical locations and hypothetical events, I think you will quickly see, from a v

Public Safety committee  I think from a practical standpoint, and from a CACP perspective and an Ontario law enforcement perspective, it's just having a tool that's available. Time is of the essence in many of these investigations. With abducted children, the first 24 hours is critical. In most non-par

Public Safety committee  Yes. I can't state the specific case, given confidentiality, but there was a very high-profile case that occurred a number of years ago for which the registry was accessed. Immediately, because of the circumstances of the case, none of the offenders residing in the area were su

Public Safety committee  Yes, sir. From a police perspective, you're quite right. When we speak of recidivism, especially for an adult male with younger male victims, and when you understand as well that some of those who have a sexual preference for children can offend against hundreds of victims, we re

Public Safety committee  I could also add, in relation to success, that perhaps it's not necessarily finding the person responsible. In many investigations, there are multiple suspects. If there are suspects we can go to initially, and we have this information and know that they don't match the physical

Public Safety committee  Perhaps I could respond to that and to your previous question as well. You have to remember that police have a number of tools in their tool box for conducting investigations. To ever say that there was solely one tool over another that would be responsible for solving a crime...

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I am a member of the Ontario Provincial Police and have been an officer for 33 years, but today I represent the CACP and the approximately 1,000 members we have across this country. In past duties with the OPP, I was

Public Safety committee  Good morning. I'm a chief superintendent with the Ontario Provincial Police. I'm in charge of an area within the Ontario Provincial Police called the Investigation Support Bureau. However, today I appear on behalf of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. Thank you.