Government of Saskatchewan ministries, Crown corporations and organizations are working to minimize the impacts of the postal service disruption.
Les ministères, les sociétés d’État et les organismes du gouvernement de la Saskatchewan travaillent à réduire au minimum les répercussions de l’interruption des services postaux.
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Released on August 20, 2007
The Gunshot and Stab Wounds Mandatory Reporting Act will be proclaimed in force effective September 1.
This Act will make it mandatory for hospitals to report gunshots and stab wounds to local police services. It will also allow the policing community to address gang-related violence by working with frontline health care providers to improve public safety.
"It is imperative that police services are informed of violent activities so that they can commence an effective investigation," Justice Minister Frank Quennell said. "This Act works with health service providers and our medical community to help make our communities safer places to live."
"The very nature of some incidents that result in a gunshot wound or a stab wound means there is a serious reluctance by the victim to report it to the police," Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police President Terry Coleman said. "This legislation is a welcome addition to the tools at our disposal with which to increase the safety of our communities."
Under this legislation, hospitals will be required to report gunshots and stab wounds to local police services by telephone as soon as possible after the hospital has received a patient with such a wound, as long as it does not interfere with the patient's treatment.
The reporting will be limited to the identification of the patient, the fact that they have suffered a gunshot or stab wound, and the location of the hospital facility where they have been treated. No further medical information will be disclosed through this process.
Previous reporting of gunshots and stab wounds was discretionary and resulted in confusion within the health services and policing communities. The mandatory requirements proposed in this legislation will remove that confusion.
Saskatchewan is the second jurisdiction in Canada to enact this type of legislation and the first to apply it to stab wounds. Ontario proclaimed similar legislation in September 2005.
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For more information, contact:
Andrew Dinsmore
Justice
Regina
Phone: 306-787-8606
Email: adinsmore@justice.gov.sk.ca
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