DENIED: MY REQUEST TO WAIVE FOIP FEES FOR OPP CRIME GUN STATISTICS
Letter from Ontario Solicitor General’s FOIP Office dated September 3, 2019 – Received by Dennis R. Young September 7, 2019
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA: THOUSANDS OF CFRO HITS PER DAY IS ‘MISLEADING’
IN 2006, PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA ADMITTED 6,500 CFRO HITS PER DAY IS ‘MISLEADING’
Public Safety Canada website May 17, 2006: “Whenever police officers access the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) for any reason, such as for a simple address check, an automatic hit is generated with CFRO whether the information is desired or not.”
Inadequate Search Complaint to Information Commissioner – RCMP ATIP file: A-2019-05230 – by Dennis R. Young – September 7, 2019
ACCESS DENIED TO FIP FILES IN ONTARIO MURDER-SUICIDE CASE
ONTARIO SOLICITOR GENERAL DENIES ACCESS TO FIREARMS INTEREST POLICE (FIP) FILES IN MURDER-SUICIDE CASE
Complaint to Ontario Information Commissioner by Dennis R. Young – September 2, 2019
EXCERPT: The records I have requested from the Solicitor General and the Ontario Provincial Police will help the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee in the conduct of their review of the Mark Jones murder-suicide and answer questions as to why he was able to retain possession of his firearms after serious reports had been filed with police. It’s clear from information being made available to Parliament and the public that the RCMP and the Ontario Chief Firearms Office do not collect enough information on an ongoing basis nor have they done a sufficient evaluation of the effectiveness of the two ‘Red Flag’ systems aimed exclusively at licensed gun owners implemented by the Firearms Act passed by the Federal Parliament in 1995, namely; the Firearms Interest Police (FIP) Database and the Canadian Firearms Registry Online (CFRO).
WINNIPEG POLICE DEMAND $2,400 FEE FOR ‘CRIME GUN’ STATS
This despite their admission that they can’t answer three very important questions about crime guns
Winnipeg Police Service Letter dated August 23, 2019 in response to my FOIP request dated August 13, 2019
EFFECTIVENESS OF CANADIAN FIREARMS REGISTRY ONLINE (CFRO) STILL A MYSTERY
RCMP ATIP Response fails to provide ‘evidence’ to support millions of CFRO queries:
STILL UNKNOWN: The number of CFRO queries that are automatically generated,
STILL UNKNOWN: The number of CFRO queries that are direct checks or requests by officers and,
STILL UNKNOWN: The number of CFRO queries that result in firearms charges being laid
O.P.P. REQUEST $240 FEE FOR ‘CRIME GUN’ STATISTICS
FOIP Fee Waiver Request: SOLGEN-A-2019-02470 – O.P.P Crime Gun Statistics 2008-2018 by Dennis R. Young – Aug 24, 2019. EXCERPT: “The RCMP, Public Safety Canada and Statistics Canada does not collect the data on crime guns I requested so the public has no where else to turn except to local and provincial police services for this important statistical information. The federal government no longer charges search and processing fees but that hardly matters if they don’t collect the statistics the Ontario public needs regarding the sources of crime guns to make better decisions about how best to combat the criminal use of firearms and protect both public and police safety.”
REGINA POLICE ‘CRIME GUN’ STATS FAIL TO SUPPORT CHIEF BRAY’S STATEMENT
On July 25, 2017 Global News reported: Police are struggling with gun crime on the Queen City’s streets, and some people might find that the source of the firearms is closer than expected. “They’re not being brought in by the United States, in fact most of them are not even being brought across a border to come here. They’re coming from break and enters,” Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said.
Regina Police Service Freedom of Information incomplete response received August 20, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
RCMP FIREARMS SEIZED ‘CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS’ 2017-2019
RCMP REPORT: FIREARMS SEIZED ‘CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS’ BY PROVINCE, 2017-2019
RCMP Response to Access to Information Act request dated August 16, 2019 – Received by Dennis R. Young August 22, 2019
NOTE: Also see attached: RCMP Firearms Seized ‘Criminal Investigations’ by Province 2015-2017
CANADA’S GUN REGISTRY USED AS ‘USEFUL’ EXAMPLE BY NEW ZEALAND POLICE
EXCERPT: This week Police Association president Chris Cahill claimed Canadian “police officers” check registers (a gun registry remains for restricted weapons) about 11,000 times a day. “That gives you an idea of how useful it can be,” he reportedly said. In reality, police computer systems trigger automatic registry searches thousands of times daily, usually in relation to routine policing like traffic stops. In 2006, Canada’s then auditor general Sheila Fraser called such hits “an activity indicator [rather] than an indicator of effectiveness.” Column by Kate MacNamara www.stuff.co.nz July 25, 2019 READ THE REST: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/114472787/plan-to-tighter-gun-laws-to-cost-up-to-53m-over-10-years–stuart-nash-says
MP GARRY BREITKREUZ FIREARMS FACTS UPDATE MAY 31, 2006
AUDITOR GENERAL: 5,000 HITS A DAY AN INDICATOR OF ACTIVITY – NOT EFFECTIVENESS
http://cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2006_new/71.htm
NATIONAL DEFENCE REPORTS HOLDING 159,759 FIREARMS
DND Response to Question #2: ATIP File: A-2018-00795 July 18, 2019 Received July 23, 2019 by Dennis R. Young
• 117,281 Prohibited
• 17,649 Restricted
• 24,829 Non-Restricted