[Newsbot]

Title: Undercover officers nab littering smokers
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: RoyalHighlander
Date: 2009-08-23 06:06:24
Canadian

[RoyalHighlander]

Another money grab for poor old broke Edmonton..

[martin14]

wow, so little crime in Edmonton.. cops have so little to do there ?

[Alta_redneck]

This must mean the jay walking sting is over, now those people will be running wild again.

[herbie]

Practical Law Enforcement 101

The dozen bums chugging Colt45 and blocking sidewalks in front of the Post Office every morning have no money to pay a fine.
The guy who flips his butt out in the street can afford a $10 pack of smokes, does.

Assembling a photo-radar gear in front of a school results in under 3% of the revenue possible assembling it on a long straight stretch of empty highway.

Question 19: Which is the proper procedure:
a) Stake out the seedy Hotel at closing time for drunk drivers.
b) Stake out the neighbourhood pub at 5:30 pm for drunk drivers.
c) Stay in the station and play Hearts for a quarter a point.

The correct answer is either b) or c), as a) involves contending with the likely violent perp and friends who'll back him on top of a 82% chance he will have no job and require jailing at public expense.

[Praxius]

YEah I'm sorry, but if there arn't any places to properly put out my butt, I'm not going to hang on to the damn thing for several blocks until I find one, let alone chuck it in the regular garbage and start a fire.

It's a nice idea to put your butts in a cigg disposal thingy, but there's a lot less of those out there then garbage and recycling cans..... and if you chuck it out like regular garbage, you can start a fire and get into even more crap for not trying to litter.

If there's a disposal area for ciggs, I'll use them, but if I don't see any in my sight or within short walking distance, I'm not carrying the damn thing everywhere I go, it's getting stomped and left where I dropped it.... and the law can kiss my rosy arse.

[ASLplease]

For some drivers, they use their ashtrays, but then they empty all the ashes into one big pile while they are parked in a parking lot.

[Yogi]

Or you could do what I do when no ashtray is available. Pinch the fire off, step on it, then toss the remaining butt in a garbage receptacle or into my own pocket until I can properly dispose of it!

[Akhenaten]

Something like 30 unsolved muders of prostitutes -- drunk driving up 37% --- a grand total of two detectives covering the entire crack/meth scope....



....and they have undercover nobs sitting around ticketing smokers. Edmonton City Police "Service", is, imo, the most corrupt and incompetent of all the major city police forces.

[DrCaleb]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

....and they have undercover nobs sitting around ticketing smokers. Edmonton City Police "Service", is, imo, the most corrupt and incompetent of all the major city police forces.

You know the difference between a 'Peace' officer and a 'Police' officer, right?

But I do agree with you on the corrupt and incompetent part.

[Akhenaten]

$1:

You know the difference between a 'Peace' officer and a 'Police' officer, right?

Nope. I'm not following you.

$1:

In Canada, the Criminal Code (R.S., c. C-34, s. 2.) defines a peace officer as:

“ "peace officer" includes

(a) a mayor, warden, reeve, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff’s officer, and justice of the peace,
(b) a member of the Correctional Service of Canada who is designated as a peace officer pursuant to Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, and a warden, deputy warden, instructor, keeper, jailer, guard and any other officer or permanent employee of a prison other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act,
(c) a police officer, police constable, bailiff, constable, or other person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace or for the service or execution of civil process,
(d) an officer within the meaning of the Customs Act, the Excise Act or the Excise Act, 2001, or a person having the powers of such an officer, when performing any duty in the administration of any of those Acts,
(d.1) an officer authorized under subsection 138(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,
(e) a person designated as a fishery guardian under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act and a person designated as a fishery officer under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act or the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act,
(f) the pilot in command of an aircraft
(i) registered in Canada under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act, or
(ii) leased without crew and operated by a person who is qualified under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act to be registered as owner of an aircraft registered in Canada under those regulations, while the aircraft is in flight, and
(g) officers and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Forces who are
(i) appointed for the purposes of section 156 of the National Defence Act, or
(ii) employed on duties that the Governor in Council, in regulations made under the National Defence Act for the purposes of this paragraph, has prescribed to be of such a kind as to necessitate that the officers and non-commissioned members performing them have the powers of peace officers;

If there's a difference I wasn't aware.



....besides, I refered to them as 'nobs'

[DrCaleb]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

If there's a difference I wasn't aware.

....besides, I refered to them as 'nobs'

The traditional difference is that 'Peace' officers do not have the authority to investigate crimes. They can do most anything else a Police officer can do legally.

The story refers to undercover 'Peace' officers, which is why I asked.

[Akhenaten]

Fair enough. Still even though i don't smoke and I don't like seeing butts all over the place I'd still rather these 'peace' officers were undercover hanging around the typical 'dead prostitute dumping grounds'.

[digerdick]

Bookim dono Litter one.........we will have the citys finances courts and the jails full

[herbie]

Force the tobacco companies to make butts more biodegradable. Who cares. I smoke any they should thank God they're allowed to sell these addictive goddam things at all.
Legal goddam crack dealers, that's all they are.

And go ahead flip your butts out the window in BC. They won't buy the deadwood, they won't cut the deadwood, all they wanna do is freaking yap about their big plans until everyone in the industry is dead of old age and you're buying only American lumber at Home Depot instead. At least there will be jobs putting fires out.