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COVID-19 has changed both criminal behaviour and policing in Ontario. Some of the crime trends, such as a surge in domestic violence, have been predictable. Others, such as a significant rise in car thefts, have perplexed officers. Both trends have been seen by York Regional Police. The force, which has jurisdiction north of Toronto, crunched some numbers comparing this March to last year’s.
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“First responders put their lives on the line every day to protect Ontarians and they are at great risk of being directly exposed to COVID-19 as they fulfill their frontline duties,” said Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, in a joint statement. “We must do everything in our power to ensure the health and well-being of those working on the frontlines and provide them with the tools they need to do their jobs and keep Ontarians safe.”
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The concern in R. v. Wittwer (2008) was the conditions in which an earlier inadmissible statement would taint a subsequent statement making it also inadmissible (R. v. Tang, 2015). The case gave rise to the so-called “Wittwer warning,” a protocol intended to isolate a subsequent statement from an earlier inadmissible statement, in order to preserve the admissibility of the subsequent statement.
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Dr. Vern White, senator and former police chief, joins us from our nation’s capital for this special podcast episode as we continue to grapple with this unprecedented coronavirus spread. “I’m not sure you could ever train perfectly for something like this,” he tells Blue Line’s editor. Find out more about White’s experience as a chief of police during the H1N1 outbreak, his thoughts on what police leadership should hone in on in the coming months, supporting the larger police family, and how prepared Canadian law enforcement is for something like this.
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Staff Sgt. Chris Oram (ret.) shares his thoughts on Phil Egan’s comprehensive new book about the history of the Sarnia Police Service and beyond. “As with all well-researched and well-written books, the reader receives far more than what the title implies,” he writes. “No piece of history ever existed in a vacuum. There are always origins and causes, sometimes a world away causing sway on local outcomes. This book shows how seemingly recent issues such as opiate addiction, in reality, have a history spanning nations and centuries.”
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“The current health scare involving COVID-19 is going to show the best and worst of humankind. On one end we will see people sharing what they have with others in need as well as remotely supporting local businesses as much as they reasonably can. On the other side, we will see hoarding at the expense of others and extreme paranoia.” Tom Wetzel, the chief of police for the City of Richmond Heights police department in Ohio, shares his thoughts on policing in a pandemic.
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We hear a lot about the importance of situation(al) awareness (SA) in law enforcement but what do we know about how to train officers to monitor and regulate their SA in dynamic and uncertain environments? To answer this question, we first need to understand what is meant by SA and why it is so important to decision-making and action.
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ICYMI: Blue Line Expo 2020 has been postponed to Sept. 29 and will now be taking place in Marshall Hall at Bingemans Conference Centre, Kitchener, Ont. We are thrilled to be on site in the Kitchener-Waterloo region, a well-known tech hub, to bring together the best of law enforcement for a day of learning, networking and review of the latest technology, services and products shaping the market.
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Location: Oshawa, Ont.
Date: POSTPONED to Fall 2020
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Location: Niagara Falls, Ont.
Date: POSTPONED to Fall 2020
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