Ministry 2003/04 -- 2005/06 Service Plan -- Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

Appendix — Continued

Core Business Area: Protective Programs

Goal

Objective

Strategies

Enhanced Public Safety

Make communities and schools safer

Enhance electronic access to information by law enforcement agencies and the general public
Promote effective crime prevention programs in communities
Strengthen and continue community-based restorative justice initiatives (Community Accountability Programs (CAPs)), and support the initiation of new CAPs

Objective

Strategies

Protect children

Continue to support communities in developing strategies to prevent youth crime, violence, bullying and sexual exploitation of children and youth
Provide criminal record checks for individuals working with or afforded unsupervised access to children

Objective

Strategies

Ensure that no unexplained death is overlooked, concealed or ignored

Goal

Objective

Strategies

Effective Protection for Vulnerable Citizens

Reduce violence against vulnerable citizens through the enforcement of civil and criminal protection orders

Goal

Objective

Strategies

Reduced Human and Financial Costs Associated with Emergencies and Disasters

Maintain effective awareness, preparedness, response and recovery programs

Provide training to volunteer services
Provide public education
Enhance public and multi-jurisdictional co-operation
Employ the use of technology to achieve faster and fuller return of federal Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) contributions
Maintain the readiness status of provincial emergency programs and continue to expand the capabilities of trained and experienced staff
Develop specific disaster plans

Goal

Objective

Strategies

Recovery Assistance and Protection for All Victims of Crime, Notably High-Risk Victims

Enhance the delivery of victim services programs

Improve access and timely provision of benefits and services for victims of crime
Complete the transfer of the Criminal Injury Compensation Program from Workers' Compensation Board to the ministry to streamline service delivery under a victims' mandate and to provide more appropriate benefits and services to all claimants

Goal

Objective

Strategies

Enhanced Protection for First Nations Communities

Improve support to First Nations communities and offenders provincewide

Continue to support First Nations communities in developing culturally appropriate crime prevention and restorative justice programs
Maintain First Nations policing
Support the Native Courtworker Program

Supplementary Performance Measures	2001/02 Base Data	2002/03 Target	2002/03 Actual
# communities participating in problem-solving approaches to crime	20	24	32
# of First Nations communities developing culturally appropriate crime prevention programs	6	8	34
# of Community Accountability Programs funded	63	69	76
# of criminal record checks completed	60,000	60,000	40,000¹ (estimated)
# of Protection Order Registry inquiries by police	6,000	6,240	6,845
% of British Columbians reporting satisfaction with their personal safety from crime	84%	85%	Data not yet available²
Average number of months to complete a Coroner's investigation³	7.2 months	4.5 months	5.4 months
Processing time for Disaster Financial Assistance applications following complete submission	45 days	30 days	28 days


¹	With the implementation of revised consent forms and program information updated and available on the Web, it became apparent the program was conducting a significant number of criminal record checks for individuals not covered under the Criminal Records Review Act.
²	This measure is based on the Statistics Canada General Social Survey that is conducted every five years. The next survey will be conducted in 2004.
³	This performance measure has been revised from the 2002/03 – 2004/05 Service Plan to increase reporting accuracy. The original target remains the same — Coroner's investigations that, on average, take up to 4.5 months to complete.