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Current Affairs 2007 - Police (105 items)
| Dec 20, 2007 | Grow-Ops Growing Bigger, Going Rural Crime analysis shows marijuana grow operations are moving to bigger houses, hiding behind more bushes and growing more dope than ever.
The grow-ops' changing profile has emerged in response to authorities' crackdowns, says RCMP crime analyst Parvir Girn.
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| Dec 19, 2007 | New Tool To Detect Stolen Electricity BC Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations.
Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to BC Hydro energy diversion investigators.
An unexplained spike in electrical energy use in a residence or business is one way to identify an indoor marijuana farm, which is why the meter is often bypassed and stolen electricity routed to the grow operation.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Production of Potent Pot Flourishing and Lucrative The production of increasingly potent marijuana continues to flourish in Canada despite a decline in grow-operation seizures in British Columbia over the past four years, the RCMP says.
The national police force's annual report on the illicit drug trade concludes that pot cultivation remains "an evolving and very lucrative" industry.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Illegal Drug Industry Booming With Potent New Products: Budder, an inhaled cannabis derivative believed to have emerged in Vancouver in 2004, has THC levels ranging from 82 per cent to 99.6 per cent, much more potent than smoked marijuana. THC ( tetrahydrocannabinol ) is the psychoactive substance in the cannabis plant.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Tip Line Aims To Target Grow-ops B.C. Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations.
Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to energy diversion investigators with B.C. Hydro. Hydro investigators will be able to search for evidence of electricity theft.
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| Dec 16, 2007 | NS: Justice Unit Holds Power To Evict Guilty or not, people suspected of certain crimes are being turfed from their homes across the province.
So far, occupants of 23 homes, apartments or trailers have been evicted since the summer, when a new division of the Justice Department began to fully enforce the new provincial Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act. Proclaimed Jan. 7, the act is intended to target suspected drug use and sales, prostitution, illegal gaming, bootlegging or child sexual abuse.
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| Dec 14, 2007 | Police Pull Children From Abby Grow-Op Police officers were conducting the search warrant in the 3200 block of Firhill Drive, but while investigating a marijuana grow operation, they became concerned about the levels of carbon monoxide.
The carbon monoxide levels were found to be in excess of 100 parts per million [the hazard increases dramatically above 30 ppm, according to experts].
Police also found three children under the age of 12 in the home, who are now under the care of non-parental family members.
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| Dec 13, 2007 | Compassion Pleaded After Drugs Convictions Pete Young said he wasn't trying to hide anything -- he was offering marijuana from a downtown location to ease people's pain.
He said doctors knew. So did the police.
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| Dec 12, 2007 | Grow Op Storage Costing Thousands Calgary police are taking steps to get rid of eight years' worth of seized marijuana grow operation equipment they have been paying to store in an Edmonton warehouse -- a move that could have a ripple effect for police services across the country.
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| Dec 11, 2007 | Students Learn Drug Lesson Yesterday, La Verendrye School students learned a whole lot about illegal drugs.
Their instructor, RCMP Const. Dave Higgs, talked to a room filled with Grade 7 and 8 students in an information session on common street drugs.
Before starting, Higgs warned students as an RCMP officer, he can't and won't turn a deaf ear on anyone's admission of guilt, as the substances he was talking about are illegal in this country.
[Shouldn't doctors discuss drugs?] |
| Dec 11, 2007 | Grow-Op Above Daycare About 18 months ago some mysterious people took over the commercial space atop the Yeshiva Gedola daycare in Outremont, without introducing themselves to their neighbours.
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| Dec 5, 2007 | Tough New Drug Laws Promise Jail Time Canadians caught trafficking drugs will spend mandatory time in jail if new federal Conservative legislation passes.
But critics of the plan say it will just add to prison overcrowding, while doing little do deter drug dealing.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | ON: Cops Publicize Grow-Op Sites Moving into a new place in Windsor and want the peace of mind of knowing it wasn't previously used as a marijuana growing operation?
Windsor police can help.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | Drug Law Will Fill Jails, Expert Warns B.C.'s already crowded jails will need to squeeze in another 700 marijuana growers per year if new mandatory sentences are enacted, an analysis of sentencing figures suggests.
"You basically need a new prison to facilitate that," said Darryl Plecas, a criminologist at the University College of the Fraser Valley who studies marijuana sentencing. "You're going to have hundreds, if not thousands, of people going to jail who aren't going now."
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| Nov 11, 2007 | 'Marijuana Is an Addictive Drug' Andy Ivens The Province Sgt. Scott Rintoul mans the RCMP's drug-awareness bureau in B.C. Well-acquainted with the arguments for legalizing marijuana, he challenges the legal-pot advocates to consider one important point -- our children.
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| Nov 3, 2007 | Oh, to Stumble Upon a Field of Dreams ... Well, they're at it again. Like a swarm of locusts, the boys in blue have been tromping their ways through the wilds of Nova Scotia this fall wreaking havoc on the well-tended crops of several upstanding, run of the mill criminals who worked oh so diligently to maintain their lush greenery that not only brings happiness to those throughout the land but also creates a future for agricultural up-and-comers.
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| Oct 23, 2007 | RCMP Refused To Test Crew For Drugs David Hahn, president of BC Ferries, repeatedly asked to have the bridge crew of the Queen of the North tested for drugs and alcohol in the hours after the ship crashed and sank, but RCMP investigators refused.
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| Oct 22, 2007 | Pro-Pot Protest Nets Just 60 People Police were out in full force for a contingent of mostly teenagers protesting to decriminalize marijuana during Saturday's pro-pot rally.
About 60 people marched up Pitt Street to Domino's Pizza near Tollgate Road for the first-ever Walk 4 Weed demonstration.
It was a far cry from the hundreds who were expected to attend, but that didn't stop organizers from forging ahead with the peaceful demonstration.
[So does police intimidation work?] |
| Oct 18, 2007 | ON: Hawkesbury Shops Ditch Drug Paraphernalia Hawkesbury merchants plan to stop selling marijuana bongs, drug pipes and other accessories at the request of police, even though it's legal to do so.
The decision comes after a town hall meeting last week when store owners agreed with Hawkesbury OPP that they were aiding drug use by selling the paraphernalia, especially to youth.
[More harm reduction out the window - kids will use pop cans and other questionable materials instead] |
| Oct 14, 2007 | OPP Officer Charged Following Drug Raid A longtime local OPP officer, now working in northern Ontario, is charged following a drug raid by the provincial police near Thunder Bay.
Det.-Const. Lynn MacKay, who worked in London for years under her married name, Lynn Pretty, before joining the Nipigon OPP, was charged along with her boyfriend following an Oct. 5 raid on a house that netted $6,000 worth of marijuana.
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