Focus of the Systemic Initiative Recognizing the complexity of balancing the need to maintain public safety and the need for the public to be free from discriminatory interference, the Commission set out to consider the contact interview policy and practice from a human rights perspective. [...] The mandate of the SPC is assigned at subsection 19(1) of The Police Act, 1990.16 Duty and powers of commission 19(1) The commission shall promote: (a) adequate and e昀昀ective policing throughout Saskatchewan; and (b) the preservation of peace, the prevention of crime, the e昀케ciency of police services and the improvement of police relationships with communities within Saskatchewan. [...] The RCMP is also subject to federal legislation, which S a s k a t c h e w a n H u m a n R i g h t s C o m m i s s i o n 1 2 empowers them to “perform all duties that are assigned to peace o昀케cers in relation to the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crime and of o昀昀ences against the laws of Canada and the laws in force in any province in which they may be employed, and the apprehension. [...] Such a detention will trigger the Charter rights to be informed of their right to counsel and the reason for their detention.55 The test to determine whether a psychological detention has occurred involves an objective evaluation of all the circumstances of the encounter and the police conduct, from the perspective a reasonable person in the individual’s circumstances.56 Put another way, the test. [...] The Peelian policing model a昀케rms that “the police are the public and the public are the police” to underscore the need for police to be, and see themselves, as a part of the community that they serve.
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