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Criminal justice system
Recommendation 141:
Develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences.
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Recommendation 11:
Develop an alternative model for recognizing and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis, in partnership with the Provincial Health Services Authority (including the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and trauma-informed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 55:
Develop an alternative model for identifying and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis in partnership with mental health experts (including experts in forensic psychiatry) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and traumainformed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 2:
Dedicating legal aid funding for:
- a clinic to support people to make police complaints through summary advice, short service, or full representation based on the needs of the individual and the nature of the complaint
- public legal education workshops and materials to help people navigate the process of bringing a lawsuit against a police officer or police force; and
- legal representation for families and/or victims in instances of police-involved serious injury or death to facilitate full participation in a Coroner’s Inquests and civil actions.
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Recommendation 16:
Decisions concerning the parent in conflict with the law should, wherever possible, consider whether the parent has dependents or responsibilities for the care of children, whether the offender is a sole or primary caregiver, the age and developmental needs of the children involved, and the best interests of each of the children involved. To that end, a number of measures can be taken at each stage of the criminal justice process.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
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Recommendation 3:
Currently “Specialized Service Agreements” under Part 2, Section 4(3) are focused on criminal investigation services, traffic enforcement services, police communication services, and forensic services. If the Ministry wished to ensure behavioral health and crisis response supports were coordinated with policing within designated service areas, this section could be amended to include such supports, with regulations in place to limit the role of police officers in mental health response while providing access to alternative service agreements to support coordinated, community-based crisis response.
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Recommendation 6:
Culture is an important element of a child’s development and all interventions must be culturally sensitive and appropriate.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
2018
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Recommendation 10:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 54:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams at treatment centres and maximum and medium institutions to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 18:
Create a Provincial Court resource outlining “harm reduction services,” including a definition of:
- “drug paraphernalia” as harm reduction equipment;
- “Safe Consumption Sites” and “Overdose Prevention Sites”;
- needle exchange;
- opioid substitution treatment; and v. low-barrier health services.
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