Justice committee  You cannot directly benefit from a forfeiture. The vehicles in place to reinvest into policing are the grant programs; all police services in the province can apply to the grant programs. I would say that on average about 50% of what is forfeited and is being managed by the feder

Justice committee  That's correct. Three grant programs are available.

Justice committee  That's correct. That's how much we believe we directly assist in forfeitures.

Justice committee  As you know, we have the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau. We carry out intelligence-led policing. Obviously that information would be submitted to our intelligence analysis cycle, and obviously, if the information were paramount and linked to some of our priorities, we would a

Justice committee  That is correct.

Justice committee  I think that would be a question best placed to the seized property management directorate and the provincial asset management entity. We, the police, are not responsible for managing the assets or disposing of the assets. That question would be best answered by them.

Justice committee  I do not believe you should buy one.

Justice committee  Yes, you make a very interesting observation that they are tending to lease more of their cars and rent more of their facilities. However, they would still have this large amount of money or profits that they somehow need to make available so they can benefit from the profits. Ve

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  With some of these operations that we're seizing, obviously we do it in consultation with the prosecutor. We're getting much better at structuring the restraint order so that perhaps we would not take possession of property, where we force them to continue to operate the operatio

Justice committee  Good question. First of all, the provisions we have available to what we call preserve the asset so we can seek forfeiture are the special search warrants and the restraint orders. They are applications by the prosecutor based on the affidavit we provide. The complexity of thos

Justice committee  We usually work hand in hand with what we call substantive investigators. For example, a typical asset forfeiture investigator will work with a drug investigator or a firearms investigator from the provincial weapons unit. They are responsible for putting the case together to put

Justice committee  It's a very good question. As I indicated in my opening remarks, I think there are some opportunities to look at the Seized Property Management Act to possibly provide some amendments. One of the issues we are facing right now is that seized property management will not manage

Justice committee  I am vaguely familiar with Bill S-4, but I can tell you that the new provisions in there that allow us to charge people who are in possession of identity documents are going to be extremely helpful. As a matter of fact, we took down a project two weeks ago where we were able to u

Justice committee  I am a firm believer that when you can remove any wealth or any property that should not be in the hands of criminals, it is an effective way to reduce crime. When you can do that, and not only do that but return it to victims, I think it's even better. It is a tremendously effec