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The Yukon Court of Appeal has decided that the usual rule of evidence applicable in a criminal trial that hearsay evidence is presumptively inadmissible does not apply to peace bond proceedings.
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Const. Taylor Olenic of the Medicine Hat Police Service has been on the job for less than two years but he’s exceeded every expectation. Olenic, who officially began his policing career with Medicine Hat Police Service (MHPS) in June 2018, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of Blue Line’s inaugural Rookie of the Year Award. Congratulations!
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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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The head of the Canadian Police Association says he is worried about the increasing number of COVID-19 threats officers face while responding to calls. “During this particular pandemic there is a very much heightened sense of anxiety,” said Tom Stamatakis in Vancouver. “That just goes through the roof.”
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“I became the first mental health officer for my police department in New Westminster, B.C., in 2013,” writes Const. Art Wlodyka. “At present, there is still no local formal training program for new mental health officers. As such, I want to share a few lessons learned during my time in the role.” He notes that now things have “obviously changed dramatically in the world and within the policing context since this article was written. That being said, specialized mental health response may be needed more now than never.”
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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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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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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: Niagara Falls, Ont.
Date: April 28-May 1, 2020 • POSTPONED to Fall 2020
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Location: Calgary, Alta.
Date: April 29, 2020 • POSTPONED to Nov. 13, 2020
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Location: Barrie, Ont.
Date: May 3-7, 2020 • CANCELLED
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Location: Niagara Falls, Ont.
Date: May 4-8, 2020 • POSTPONED
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Location: Aylmer, Ont.
Date: May 4-8, 2020 • POSTPONED
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