2003/04 – 2005/06 SERVICE PLAN Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

Appendix I: Glossary

Auxiliary/Reserve Constables: Auxiliary and reserve constables are volunteers who participate in the delivery of community policing and crime prevention services. They are a trained, semi-professional policing resource in many communities in British Columbia but are not considered substitutes for policing by regular police officers.

Community Accountability Programs (CAPs): CAPs are community-based diversion programs designed to divert low-risk offenders from the traditional justice system while holding offenders accountable for their actions and repairing the harm caused. Major CAP models include circle remedies, family group conferencing, neighbourhood accountability boards and victim-offender reconciliation.

Core Programs: Core programs are designed to promote long-term behavioural changes in serious offenders by addressing those factors associated with the thinking, skills and lifestyles that are known to contribute to crime.

CORNET: An electronic, integrated offender management information system.

Crime Victim Assistant Act (CVAA): The CVAA replaces the Criminal Injury Compensation Program, increasing the range of benefits provided to victims.

Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA): Administered through the Provincial Emergency Program, the DFA assists eligible disaster victims in coping with the cost of restoring or replacing items essential to a home, livelihood or community service.

FIGARO: An integrated licensing and financial management information system covering film classification, private investigator and gaming licensing applications.

High-Risk Offenders: Offenders who are defined as high-risk are those who have been assessed by Correctional and Probation Officers as presenting a high risk to re-offend. By screening offenders against factors that are predictive of re-offending, Corrections Branch identifies the offenders who require the most intervention (i.e., higher frequency of supervision and more programming).

Integrated Justice: Seamless information sharing between independent agencies that make up the justice system.

JUSTIN: An electronic, integrated case-tracking system used throughout the province and joining all members of the criminal justice system (police, Crown, judiciary, courts and corrections).

Keep of Prisoner Program (KOP): Administered by the Corrections Branch, the KOP program reimburses police departments for the cost of keeping prisoners in municipal lockups who have been remanded into custody by the courts pending transport to correctional centres or for a court appearance.

Native Courtworker Program: Native Courtworkers provide counselling (other than legal) to adults and youths who have committed or are alleged to have committed a criminal offence. They also help aboriginal adults and young offenders understand their legal rights and obtain legal assistance, and they promote better appreciation of the cultures and socio-economic conditions of aboriginal people on the part of those who administer the criminal justice system.

Non-recidivists: Adult offenders who do not re-offend for two years following Corrections supervision.

Police Boards: Police Boards are mandated to establish and operate a police department in their municipality responsible for enforcing bylaws and criminal and provincial laws, maintaining order and preventing crime. B.C. municipalities that do not have Police Boards are served by the RCMP.

PRIME BC: An electronic records management system that links all police department information across the province and improves the ability of police to solve major crime.

Protection Order: A protection order is an order containing a condition (e.g., “no contact”) that affords safety and security to a specified (named) person or persons. A protection order may be made in Provincial Family, Criminal or Supreme Court.

Protection Order Registry (POR): The POR is a central registry (electronic database) of current protection orders that is used by police to establish the existence and validity of a protection order in the course of law enforcement. The POR is also used to notify victims of the release or escape of sentenced offenders and is cross-referenced with firearms databases.

Provincial Emergency Program (PEP): The function of PEP is to maintain effective awareness, preparedness, response and recovery programs to reduce the human and financial costs of emergencies and disasters.

RCMP Agreement: The RCMP Provincial Police Service Agreement sets out the cost-sharing relationship between the federal, provincial and territorial governments, police service-level expectations, minimum police standards, police objectives and priorities, methods of payment and other conditions.

Restorative Justice: Restorative justice is an approach which considers the needs of victims, offenders and communities and involves these parties in addressing the harm caused by crime. Restorative justice can be incorporated in ministry programs and external, community-based programs.

Safer Community Programs: Safer Community Programs are structured initiatives, undertaken by both government and non-government partners, to assist schools and communities in developing local solutions and to increase public awareness and support for crime prevention and community justice strategies.