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• Message from the Minister and Accountability Statement  
• Ministry Overview and Core Business Areas  
• Resource Summary  
• Vision, Mission and Values  
• Goals, Objectives, Strategies and Results  
• Related Initiatives and Planning Processes  
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Ministry Overview and Core Business Areas

The portfolio of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General includes law enforcement, corrections, crime prevention, victim services, liquor and gaming regulation, liquor distribution1, consumer protection, driver safety, and emergency response and recovery. Five main areas within the ministry work together to fulfill the ministry's public safety mandate.2

Corrections protects communities through the safe custody and reintegration of adult offenders serving provincial terms of custody, serving community sentences, or on conditional release, as well as accused persons remanded into custody or released on bail supervision.

Policing and Community Safety superintends law enforcement in the province; provides victims of crime with services and benefits; assists communities with crime prevention; regulates the private security industry; and provides protective programs, coroners services, and emergency preparedness, response and recovery.

Compliance and Consumer Services administers programs related to driver fitness and dangerous drivers, monitors commercial vehicle industry carriers and professional drivers, maintains links with the newly established Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority3, and provides residential tenancy and film classification services.

Gaming Policy and Enforcement develops and manages gaming policy and legislation, standards, regulation, licensing, auditing, registration, and distribution of gaming proceeds. The branch oversees all horse racing in the province, is responsible for enforcement in all gaming sectors, and manages the province's responsible gambling strategy, including the Problem Gambling Program.

Liquor Control and Licensing regulates the manufacture and resale of liquor in licensed establishments in the province in order to improve the safety of communities by reducing harm caused by alcohol misuse.

A summary of financial and FTE resources for these core business areas is presented in the following section.
1  The Liquor Distribution Branch reports to the Crown Agencies Secretariat for performance planning and financial reporting purposes and publishes its own service plan and annual report, separate from those of the ministry. Publications of the Liquor Distribution Branch can be accessed at http://www.bcliquorstores.com/en/about/corp_publications.
2  Detailed descriptions of the ministry's core business areas are available on the ministry's website at http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/relatedinitiativesandplanningprocesses/overview.html.
3  The Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority, a private, not-for-profit statutory corporation, assumed functions for enforcing consumer protection legislation from the former Consumer Services Division of the branch in July 2004.

     
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