CRM 1300 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Notes.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Investigative detention: police can detain, interrogate and search an individual even when there are less than reasonable grounds to prove that an offence has been committed, an investigative detention is defined as a restrictive power dependent upon a reasonable belief that the detained person is implicated in a prior criminal act, section 9 of the charter states that everyone has the right to not be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned, police are aloud to detain an individual due to safety concerns. They may not even arrest the person but require that they appear at the designated court date: an arrest involves the police to restrain an individual, depriving a person of their liberty, when investigating a crime, the police often need to question a large number of people to gather evidence, when they have enough information to identify the alleged perpetrator, the police go to the justice of the peace and lay an information against the person they have identified.