Public Safety committee  You're going to have to refresh my memory on the section in relation to—

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure if it needs to be upgraded or changed in the Criminal Code so much, but I would agree that there does seem to be a need for some clarification to help the police officer on the street make the proper decision and understand the prosecution's side of it, whether that'

Public Safety committee  I guess I haven't seen too much movement on the victimization aspect. In Saskatchewan, we are making great strides in attending to the needs of those incidents that involve someone with mental health issues through our PACT. That's the police and crisis response team, where a p

Public Safety committee  That's an answer that probably would take longer than 30 seconds.

Public Safety committee  I would echo some of what was just mentioned. I am assuming you're talking about Dr. Ruddell's book. Obviously in the rural setting for police officers some of the challenges are quite a bit different from a larger metropolitan urban area. Largely because of the nature of the

Public Safety committee  Thanks, Glen.

Public Safety committee  Surprisingly, Regina and Saskatoon, the bigger urban municipalities in the province, have close crime severity indexes to the overall provincial numbers. In the example we provided of North Battleford, their crime severity index is probably in the neighbourhood of twice the numbe

Public Safety committee  Some of it is based on the formula itself. With a city such as North Battleford with a population of 13,000, trying to equate that to a rate derived from a per 100,000 population sometimes skews some of the data. We've looked into some of the, more or less, actual crimes and the

Public Safety committee  Yes to both of those. I think what you might be referring to is the crime reduction teams that Alberta implemented with approximately $8 million to $10 million funding last year.

Public Safety committee  I think they have four in place right now. Currently, our second one was fully manned about a month ago. You're right. They're showing some interesting numbers in relation to not only property but to violent crime as well, downturn numbers.

Public Safety committee  No, the crime reduction teams are full police officer positions. In this province we currently have just the RCMP positions engaged in those, and we're looking toward municipal blend as well, but we haven't got there yet.

Public Safety committee  There is not as of yet. The Alberta sheriffs not only do highway patrol and enforcement, but they also do prisoner transport and court security. We're separate a bit in relation to our court security and prisoner transport units that fall under our attorney general side of the mi

Public Safety committee  We have looked at those recently because of our PRT program, our protection response team, but at the push of a button I couldn't get them from the larger municipal agencies right now.

Public Safety committee  I have, to some degree, but I don't have an average number for you.

Public Safety committee  We would have to check with F Division, our provincial police service of jurisdiction, and see if it could provide us with something.