Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
Ministère de la Sécurité communautaire et des Services correctionnels  (French)
Government ministry overview
Formed 1972
Jurisdiction Government of Ontario
Headquarters 18th Floor, 25 Grosvenor Street, Toronto, Ontario
Minister responsible
  • Yasir Naqvi, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services
Website www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca

The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (French: Ministère de la Sécurité communautaire et des Services correctionnels) is responsible for law enforcement services in the Canadian province of Ontario, including the Ontario Provincial Police, correctional centres, detention centres/jails (detention centres and jails are essentially the same except the latter are smaller), parole boards, public safety and disaster management (under The Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management). The ministry was created as the Ministry of Public Safety and Security in 2002 with the amalgamation of the former Ministry of Correctional Services and the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Ontario. Its headquarters are on the 18th floor of 25 Grosvenor Street in Toronto.[1]

The current Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services in the Ontario cabinet is Yasir Naqvi.

List of Ministers of Community Safety and Correctional Services

List of Ministers of Public Safety and Security

List of Solicitors-General of Ontario

not complete

List of Ontario Ministers of Correctional Services

Note: This list is not complete.

  Name Party Took Office Left Office
     Arthur Meen
Progressive Conservative February 3, 1977 June 23, 1977
     John Palmer MacBeth Progressive Conservative June 23, 1977 September 21, 1977
     Frank Drea
Progressive Conservative September 21, 1977 October 18, 1978
     Gordon Walker
Progressive Conservative October 18, 1978 April 10, 1981
     Nick Leluk
Progressive Conservative April 10, 1981 May 17, 1985
     Don Cousens
Progressive Conservative May 17, 1985 June 26, 1985
     Ken Keyes
Liberal June 26, 1985 September 29, 1987
     David Ramsay
Liberal September 29, 1987 August 2, 1989
     Richard Patten
Liberal August 2, 1989 October 1, 1990
     Mike Farnan
New Democratic Party October 1, 1990 July 31, 1991
     Allan Pilkey
New Democratic Party July 31, 1991 September 23, 1992
     David Christopherson
New Democratic Party September 23, 1992 June 26, 1995
     Robert Runciman
Progressive Conservative June 26, 1995 June 17, 1999
     Rob Sampson
Progressive Conservative June 17, 1999 December 4, 2000
     Norman Sterling
Progressive Conservative December 5, 2000 March 8, 2001
     Rob Sampson
Progressive Conservative May 8, 2001 April 14, 2002

Security guard and private investigator licensing

In 2010, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services began to administer tests for new applicants and existing security guard or private investigator cardholders. Prior to 2010, any individual (as long as they were free, or pardoned, of a criminal charge) could obtain one or both licences just by paying 80 dollars for each. The new requirements came after a coroner's inquest into the death of Patrick Shand, who died from asphyxiation while in the custody of an untrained private security guard and staff at a Loblaws store in Scarborough. Despite the store chain's policy of prohibiting use of force against shoplifters, Shand was restrained and handcuffed. Shand remained handcuffed when staff had to perform CPR after the former went into respiratory arrest. The handcuffs were not removed until Shand was placed in an ambulance 18 minutes after the 911 call was made.[2]

In response to the inquest's recommendations, applicants for security guard or private investigator licences must pass a 32-hour training course before writing a test. 62.5% is a passing grade for security guards and 77% for private investigators.

See also

References

  1. "Contact Us." Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved on August 12, 2010.
  2. Man died from accidental suffocation during arrest: inquest, CBC News, April 23, 2004

External links

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