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Policing and Victim Services
Policing:
- sets policing standards, and ensures that policing services are delivered
efficently and effectively
- provides regular audits, inspections and reviews for municipal police
agencies to ensure improved policing standards are being met.
- manages contracts for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and First
Nations Policing
- provides community-based crime prevention initiatives
- coordinates in-service training initiatives for police and public
safety enforcement agencies
- issues
licenses to companies and individuals engaged in the private security/private
investigation industries.
- issues
Firearms Licenses and inspection of premises approved to sell firearms.
Victim Services:
Victim Services
of the Department of Justice was created in 1989 as a vehicle to reduce
the effects of crime on the people in Nova Scotia. Its purpose is as
follows:
- to promote
the rights of victims of crime and provide an avenue to address their
needs
- to provide
information and services to victims of crime and to raise community
awareness on victims' issues
- to work
within Government, the criminal justice system and the community to
develop and implement policies and programs for victims of crime
Victim Services
has, as its roots, two pieces of legislation: Section 727.9 of the Criminal
Code (1989) and the Victims' Rights and Services Act (1990). These pieces
of legislation created a surcharge to be imposed on both federal and
provincial offences, the revenue of which is placed in a Victims' Assistance
Fund for research and services for victims of crime. The provincial
Act also contains a victims' bill of rights.
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