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Ontario is proposing a new regulation that would ban the random stopping of citizens by police — known as carding — and require officers to provide a written record of any such exchanges.
Community Safety Minister Yasir Naqvi said Wednesday the draft regulation would establish clear and consistent rules to protect civil liberties during voluntary interactions between police and the public.
Naqvi said the government heard from many people of colour and aboriginal men and women who said the Human Rights Code was being ignored by police who stopped them for no apparent reason.
He said police will not be allowed to stop people based on how they look or in which neighbourhood they live, but there would be “narrow exemptions” in the regulation to cover routine traffic stops or when someone is being arrested or detained.
If the regulation is passed, police would have to inform citizens of the reason they are being stopped and asked for personal information, and also tell them they have a right to walk away and not engage with the officers.
Naqvi wouldn’t say what would happen to the Ontario residents’ personal information already gathered through carding that is now in police databases.
But he said any information found to have been collected improperly will be moved to databases accessible only by chiefs of police, and would eventually be destroyed after concerns about possible lawsuits have expired.
In Ottawa, Chief Charles Bordeleau will not comment on the regulations until the Ottawa Police Service has had time to review them in depth, the police force said.
— With files from Citizen staff.
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Community Safety Minister Yasir Naqvi said Wednesday the draft regulation would establish clear and consistent rules to protect civil liberties during voluntary interactions between police and the public.
Naqvi said the government heard from many people of colour and aboriginal men and women who said the Human Rights Code was being ignored by police who stopped them for no apparent reason.
He said police will not be allowed to stop people based on how they look or in which neighbourhood they live, but there would be “narrow exemptions” in the regulation to cover routine traffic stops or when someone is being arrested or detained.
If the regulation is passed, police would have to inform citizens of the reason they are being stopped and asked for personal information, and also tell them they have a right to walk away and not engage with the officers.
Naqvi wouldn’t say what would happen to the Ontario residents’ personal information already gathered through carding that is now in police databases.
But he said any information found to have been collected improperly will be moved to databases accessible only by chiefs of police, and would eventually be destroyed after concerns about possible lawsuits have expired.
In Ottawa, Chief Charles Bordeleau will not comment on the regulations until the Ottawa Police Service has had time to review them in depth, the police force said.
— With files from Citizen staff.
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