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Section 25 (4) When Protected:
-Peace officer/assistant attempts to arrest for an arrest-able offence.
-Person flees to avoid arrest.
-Peace officer or other person using force acts protecting the peace officer, person assisting the
peace officer or any other person from imminent or future death or grievous bodily harm.
-Flight cannot be prevented by reasonable means in a less violent manner.
Section 25 (5) Escape Penitentiary:
Lethal force may only be used against an escaping inmate if a peace officer has reasonable
grounds to believe that the inmate poses a threat of grievous bodily harm to any person and
escape can't be prevented by reasonably less violent means.
Section 26 CC Execcive force.
- Everyone who is authorized by law to use force is criminally responsible for any excess thereof
according to the nature and quality of the act that constitutes to excess.
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Section 27.1 CC
- Section 27.1 (1) Use of Force on Board an Aircraft
Every person on an aircraft in flight is justified in using as much force as is reasonably necessary
to prevent the commission of an offense that the person believes on reasonable grounds, if the
officer were committed, would be likely to cause immediate and serious injury to the aircraft or
to any person or property onboard.
Section 27.1 (2) This section applies to any aircraft in flight in Canadian airspace and to
any aircraft registered in Canada in flight outside Canadian airspace.
Authority to use force to control a breach of peace? What section authorizes this? Section
30:
- Everyone who witnessed a breach of peace is justified in interfering to prevent the continuance
on renewal therefore and may detain any person who commits or is about to join in or to renew
the breach of peace, for the purpose of giving him into custody of a peace officer, if he uses no
more force than is reasonably necessary to prevent the continuance or renewal of the breach pf
peace or than is reasonably proportioned to the danger to be apprehended from the continuance
or renewal of the breach of peace.
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Police responsibilities in relation to riots. When may force be used, by whom. Section 32
(1)
- Every peace officer is justified in using or in ordering the use of as much force as the peace
officer believes, in good faith and on reasonable grounds.
(a): is necessary to suppress a riot
(b) is not excessive, having regard to the danger to be apprehended from the continuance of the
riot.
S. 67 CC - meaning and importance? Reading (Riot) Proclamation
A justice, mayor, or sheriff, or the lawful deputy of a mayor or sheriff, a warden of a prison, or
the head of a penitentiary, or any of their deputies.
Receives notice that, at any place within the jurisdiction of the person.
12 or more persons are unlawfully and riotously assembled together
Shall go to that place and approach as near as is safe.
If satisfied that a riot is in progress, shall command silence and then make or cause to be made in
a loud voice a proclamation in the following words or to the similar effect.
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"Her Majesty the Queen charges and commands all persons being assembled immediately to
disperse and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business on the pain of
being guilty of an offense for which, on conviction, they may be sentenced to imprisonment for
life. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."
S. 69 CC meaning and importance Neglect by peace Officer.
-A peace officer who receives notice that there is a riot within his jurisdiction and, without
reasonable excuse, fails to take all reasonable steps to suppress the riot is guilty of an indictable
offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Identification of Criminal and importance
- Section 2 (1) Identification of Criminals Act A person lawfully charged with or
convicted of an indictable offence in relation to the Criminal Code.
A person who has committed an offence under these Federal laws:
Extradition Act
Security of Information Act
Contraventions Act
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Section 25 (4) When Protected:
-Peace officer/assistant attempts to arrest for an arrest-able offence.
-Person flees to avoid arrest.
-Peace officer or other person using force acts protecting the peace officer, person assisting the
peace officer or any other person from imminent or future death or grievous bodily harm.
-Flight cannot be prevented by reasonable means in a less violent manner.
Section 25 (5) Escape Penitentiary:
Lethal force may only be used against an escaping inmate if a peace officer has reasonable
grounds to believe that the inmate poses a threat of grievous bodily harm to any person and
escape can't be prevented by reasonably less violent means.
Section 26 CC Execcive force.
- Everyone who is authorized by law to use force is criminally responsible for any excess thereof
according to the nature and quality of the act that constitutes to excess.
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Section 27.1 CC
- Section 27.1 (1) Use of Force on Board an Aircraft
Every person on an aircraft in flight is justified in using as much force as is reasonably necessary
to prevent the commission of an offense that the person believes on reasonable grounds, if the
officer were committed, would be likely to cause immediate and serious injury to the aircraft or
to any person or property onboard.
Section 27.1 (2) This section applies to any aircraft in flight in Canadian airspace and to
any aircraft registered in Canada in flight outside Canadian airspace.
Authority to use force to control a breach of peace? What section authorizes this? Section
30:
- Everyone who witnessed a breach of peace is justified in interfering to prevent the continuance
on renewal therefore and may detain any person who commits or is about to join in or to renew
the breach of peace, for the purpose of giving him into custody of a peace officer, if he uses no
more force than is reasonably necessary to prevent the continuance or renewal of the breach pf
peace or than is reasonably proportioned to the danger to be apprehended from the continuance
or renewal of the breach of peace.
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Police responsibilities in relation to riots. When may force be used, by whom. Section 32
(1)
- Every peace officer is justified in using or in ordering the use of as much force as the peace
officer believes, in good faith and on reasonable grounds.
(a): is necessary to suppress a riot
(b) is not excessive, having regard to the danger to be apprehended from the continuance of the
riot.
S. 67 CC - meaning and importance? Reading (Riot) Proclamation
A justice, mayor, or sheriff, or the lawful deputy of a mayor or sheriff, a warden of a prison, or
the head of a penitentiary, or any of their deputies.
Receives notice that, at any place within the jurisdiction of the person.
12 or more persons are unlawfully and riotously assembled together
Shall go to that place and approach as near as is safe.
If satisfied that a riot is in progress, shall command silence and then make or cause to be made in
a loud voice a proclamation in the following words or to the similar effect.
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"Her Majesty the Queen charges and commands all persons being assembled immediately to
disperse and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business on the pain of
being guilty of an offense for which, on conviction, they may be sentenced to imprisonment for
life. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."
S. 69 CC meaning and importance Neglect by peace Officer.
-A peace officer who receives notice that there is a riot within his jurisdiction and, without
reasonable excuse, fails to take all reasonable steps to suppress the riot is guilty of an indictable
offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Identification of Criminal and importance
- Section 2 (1) Identification of Criminals Act A person lawfully charged with or
convicted of an indictable offence in relation to the Criminal Code.
A person who has committed an offence under these Federal laws:
Extradition Act
Security of Information Act
Contraventions Act
