Mexicanuck
2008-01-18, 03:23 PM
According to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police,
"There is a gaping loophole in Canadian law enforcement that allows criminals to flee one jurisdiction and live free and immune in another. In many cases these are career offenders, committing multiple crimes as they move across the country taking advantage of a loophole police call 'non returnable warrants.”
It works like this. A warrant is issued for someone's arrest. But the Crown applies for a "non-returnable" warrant. Non-returnable means, "If you arrest him somewhere else because of our warrant, we're not going to pay to bring him back to face charges here. He is your problem now."
This means that if the subject of the warrant can "get out of town", or out of the province, he is pretty much safe. The person is still a problem, but he isn't our problem.
The non-returnable aspect may have geographic limits. For example, non-returnable outside of the province. Or non-returnable more than one province distant. This is one of the reasons that Vancouver has crime problems. According to the CACP, a three-month Vancouver Police
Department study of 726 people with 1,582 “non-returnable” warrants revealed that more than half of the warrants contained between two to five criminal charges and a quarter of the charges were for violent or weapons offences.
BC's motto could be the statement on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
"There is a gaping loophole in Canadian law enforcement that allows criminals to flee one jurisdiction and live free and immune in another. In many cases these are career offenders, committing multiple crimes as they move across the country taking advantage of a loophole police call 'non returnable warrants.”
It works like this. A warrant is issued for someone's arrest. But the Crown applies for a "non-returnable" warrant. Non-returnable means, "If you arrest him somewhere else because of our warrant, we're not going to pay to bring him back to face charges here. He is your problem now."
This means that if the subject of the warrant can "get out of town", or out of the province, he is pretty much safe. The person is still a problem, but he isn't our problem.
The non-returnable aspect may have geographic limits. For example, non-returnable outside of the province. Or non-returnable more than one province distant. This is one of the reasons that Vancouver has crime problems. According to the CACP, a three-month Vancouver Police
Department study of 726 people with 1,582 “non-returnable” warrants revealed that more than half of the warrants contained between two to five criminal charges and a quarter of the charges were for violent or weapons offences.
BC's motto could be the statement on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.