CRM 2305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Grievous Bodily Harm, Typification, Racial Profiling

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2305
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Canadian police informaion center (cpic): a computerized information system that contains information on vehicles, individuals, marine equipment, criminal records, dental characteristics, prison inmates and wandering persons. They receive the initial request for service, gather basic information, prioritize the call and allocate available patrol resources. The w system: approach used by police dispatchers (gatekeepers) to determine key facts about the call (where, what, when, who, why, weapons) emergency calls that require immediate police attention. Call priority: priority 1: and include life-threatening situations that can lead to death of grievous bodily harm. Priority 3 & 4: enters. are serious but not life threatening and include break and enter routine and less serious, including cold break and. Call shedding: a practice that acknowledges that police services can no longer respond to all calls for service, and that other organizations and agencies in the community must help them.