Justice committee  Thank you. A study done by one of the NFPs, not-for-profit agencies, in town deals with this issue. They found the average age for young girls entering prostitution is 13 years of age. I want to talk a little bit.... It's ironic. I've been around, as I said, and I'm not braggin

Justice committee  That's a really good question. Absolutely, because unfortunately it's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge situation. Young men are growing up to think that it's a right of passage to solicit a prostitute and do whatever you want to her because you're paying for it. It's wink-wink, nudge-n

Justice committee  Thank you very much, honourable members and guests. I very much appreciate the opportunity to present from the perspective of a police service. When I speak of police service, I'm talking particularly about the Calgary Police Service. I want to start by providing a bit of contex

Public Safety committee  I can't say that because we didn't really track that 25 or 30 years ago.

Public Safety committee  But what we can say is that the number of mentally ill people—now they've diagnosed those who are in prisons and jails as having anti-social personality disorder—makes up about 80% of the population.

Public Safety committee  If you look at rates of attack against persons, the rates today per 100,000 are the same as they were 25 to 30 years ago.

Public Safety committee  It's both, whether it's a provincial jail or a federal penitentiary. Any time you're in an environment where you have an hour a week that you can put your prisoner in to deal with an issue, and then back into the general population he goes, it's not going to work. You have to dev

Public Safety committee  It would be a secure detox facility.

Public Safety committee  As I said, I come from a jurisdiction where we focused more on the criminal use of firearms. If we could use the firearms registry legislation in that context, then we would. But we were one of those jurisdictions that didn't hunt down the duck hunters who had failed to registe

Public Safety committee  I can tell you that there's probably a greater need for this in the rural communities. I think you'll probably find that, percentage-wise, there are more people who have anti-social personality disorders and can't live in the cities who gravitate out to the rural areas. Their ill

Public Safety committee  There are a few things here and I thank you. The legislation that you mentioned would be hugely beneficial to freeing up the time of officers, particularly lawful access. We already talked about that, but also legislation around random breath testing, or RBT. If that could be bro

Public Safety committee  And yes, it's 30% proactive time for our officers that we shoot for. That measurement is 30% in Calgary.

Public Safety committee  Would you like me to start?

Public Safety committee  As far as a policing issue we have seen no financial benefit one way or the other to the police side of that. The reality is that it was the unregistered guns that were committing the vast majority of crimes in Calgary, the vast majority of crimes. As far as our guns and gangs,

Public Safety committee  Okay.