SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Police Services Act Of Ontario, Toronto Police Service, Sunshine List
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Function: other actors assigned from actual police officers that conduct policing like activities. Legislation: puts it all in place, other rules that police officers are required to pilot, enforcing a level of the criminal code, police officers are subject to police services act. Stipulates a number of things that police officers are not supposed to do. Employs higher number of sanctions on an officer if they behave in an inappropriate way. They may not have committed a criminal offence per say, but they will be held accountable for the police services act: highway traffic act, drug and substances act. Restrictions on what they are able to do. Not in uniform or driving around in cruisers. Policing on national type of level: military police. Find when they are on base: civil servants. Make sure you"re paying your taxes how you"re supposed to. At level of policing: external policing. But we hear a great deal about cia, fbi in united states.
