Sgt Defintions Flashcards
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Handheld metal detector
A portable, handheld security device capable of detecting metal objects authorized for use by the service
Assistive/Prosthetic device 
A device used to replace, compensate, or improve the functional abilities of people with disabilities or for trans or gender diverse persons to affirm gender identity. Assistive device includes a broad range of items such as mobility in visual/hearing aids, Orthotics/Prosthetics, speech devices, medical supplies, environmental controls and respiratory devices. Prosthetics used to expressed gender identity include, breast forms, chest binders, gaffs, Packers, prosthetic penises and wigs.
Booking and search template
A document created to record the pertinent details of all frisk and strip Searches and the authorization of a body cavity search. The template allows the service to electronically capture the data required to properly report all frisk and strip Searches of persons (including self identified transgender/transsexual persons ) conducted by members. Four prisoners that are booked into a police facility
Body cavity search template 
A document created to record the pertinent details of all body cavity searches. The template allows the service to electronically capture the data required to properly report on all body cavity searches of persons including self identified transgender/transsexual persons conducted by members
Search in the field only template
A document created to record the pertinent details of all protective and frisk searches that occur in the field where a person has not been brought into a police facility. The template allows the service to electronically capture the data required to properly report on all searches of persons including self identified transgender/transsexual persons conducted by members that have occurred in the field where the person was not brought in to a police facility
Disability means
– any degree of physical disability, infirmity, malformation or disfigurement that is caused by bodily injury, birth defect, or illness and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Includes diabetes melllitus, Epilepsy, abraded jury, any degree of paralysis, amputation, lack of physical coordination, blindness or visual impediment , deafness or hearing impediment, Muteness or Speech impediment, or Physical reliance on a guide dog or other animal or other wheelchair or other remedial appliance or device
– a condition of mental impairment or of developmental disability
- learning disability, or a dysfunction in one or more of the processes involved in understanding or using symbols or spoken language,
– a mental disorder
—Any injury or disability for which benefits were claimed or received under the insurance plan established under the workplace safety and insurance act or human rights code, accessibility for Ontarians with disability act.
Gender means
The set of socially classified behaviors, attitudes and norms associated with a roles of men, women, trans people, non-binary people and more. Encompasses gender identity, a persons internal sense of being a man, woman, both or neither.
Gender expression means
How a person publicly presents their gender. This can include behavior and outward appearance such as dress, hair, make up, body language and voice. A persons chosen name and pronoun are also common and important ways of expressing gender.
Gender identity means
Each persons internal in individual experiences of gender. It is their sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along or beyond the gender spectrum. A persons gender identity may be the same as or different from the Typical pairing with their birth assigned sex. Gender identity is fundamentally different from a person sexual orientation.
Item of religious significance means
Any item, article, Apparel, or clothing a person identifies as having religious importance.
Non-binary means
Gender identities outside of the expected binary of men and women
Prisoner care and control for the purpose of prisoner transportation, Care and Control, includes
-police officer
– court officer
– custodial officer
Protective search (formally level) 
This is used generally during investigative detention and involves a limited search of a person who has been detained by police when there is reasonable belief the person possesses a safety risk. The scope of the search is limited to exterior padding of clothing such as pockets, waistband or areas that be reasonably conceal such items as weapon or implements that may be used as weapons, usually with open hands to maximize the ability to detect weapons through clothing. This search may also be described as a safety search, as that is the purpose and objective.
Frisk search (Formally level 2)
This is used generally for search incident to arrest it means a more thorough search that may include emptied and searching pockets as well as removal of clothing, Which does not expose a persons undergarments, or the areas of the body normally covered by our undergarments. The removal of clothing such as belts, footwear, socks, shoes, sweaters, extra layers of clothing, or the shirt of a male would be included in a frisk search. A frisk search may be commenced in the field in concluded at the station.
A frisk search conducted incident to arrest includes the area within the immediate control of the arrested person.
Members shall make Every effort to a video in audio record all frisk searches. Members are also required to articulate the justification for the manner and circumstances under which the surges are conducted.
For the purposes of this definition, pat-down search means the same as Frisk search.
Strip search (Formally level 3) means
R vs Golden. 2001 SCC 83 Established that which constitutes a strip search and what types of circumstances may justify one. A strip search includes all steps in protective and Frisk searches as well as a thorough search of a persons clothing and non-physical search of the body. That will often require removal or rearrangements of some, or all, of the persons clothing to permit a visual inspection of a persons private areas;
Dave Lee the genitals, buttocks, breasts or chest, body cavity, and/or undergarments; the mouth was excluded from this definition despite being a body cavity.
The Supreme Court noted that strip searches represent a significant invasion of privacy and are often humiliating, degrading and traumatic, and therefore require a higher degree of justification in order to support the higher degree of interference with individual freedom and dignity.
The police must establish they have reasonable and probable grounds for concluding that a strip search is necessary in the particular circumstances of the arrest.
The beer fact that portions of a persons body normally covered by undergarments are exposed because of the way the person was dressed when taken into custody does not constitute a strip search, if the removal of such clothing was not caused by the officer i.e. the arrest of a naked person does not in itself Constitute a strip search.
The rearrangement of clothing that permits a visual inspection of a persons private area constitutes a strip search.
Body cavity search (Formally level 4)means
A search of the rectum or vagina
Service members perception data means
Information derived from a member making a determination with respect to the race of an individual by observation, solely on the basis of that members own perception
Sex means
The classification of people as male, female, or intersex based on a specific combination of reproductive organs, chromosomes or hormones and assigned at birth based on observation of a person’s genitals
Trans means
In umbrella term referring to people with diverse gender identities and expressions that differ from their assigned sex at birth. It includes but is not limited to people who identify as transgender, trans woman, trans men, none binary, gender nonconforming, gender variant, or gender queer. Some people may consider two spirit to be a trans identity. Trans persons may or may not make a social transition, have surgery, use prosthetic devices, or take prescription medication’s i.e. such as hormone therapies To affirm their gender identity. They may or may not have identity documents that reflect their lived identity.
Divisional cells means Cells that may be used for short term detention of a person in custody when
– Being processed, or waiting to be processed, or to ensure the safety of the person and/or members;
– awaiting transportation to a central lock up
– being held for returned by an outside agency
Lock up means and assigned Division used to detain a person in custody
– When the person is held for a show cause hearing, a judicial interim release where the bail court is closed
– when outside of admitting hours stipulated in procedures 03–03
– In any other circumstances where detention is authorized and necessary
Booking Hall System (BHS) means,
A video surveillance system installed in the Sally – port, booking hall, in other areas of a police facility that is designed to record the booking and release of all prisoners as they enter and leave a police facility. The BHS is operated manually by the booking officer
Booking officer means
A police officer, court officer or custodial officer designated by the officer in charge as the person responsible for the care and handling of persons detained in custody
Designated operator
For the purposes persons in custody means any member designated as an audio/video operator with an understanding of how to operate the equipment