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• Authors

• Yvon Dandurand
• Kristin Farr
• Source:

  http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.694481/publication.html
• Publication Year:

  2010
• Publisher:

  Public Safety Canada/Sécurité publique Canada
• Date accessed:

  2018-09-13

Copyright Information

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2010/Sa Majesté la Reine du Chef du Canada, 2010

 

Summary

The purpose of this study was to review selected witness protection programs (WPPs) in Canada and in other countries, as well as the successes and challenges they encounter. This review consolidates and synthesizes open source information about the structure of WPPs in foreign countries and jurisdictions and contrasts it against the situation in Canada.

 

• Victims

• Protection Measures

• Repatriation of victims

• Witnesses

• Measures for justice collaborators

• Sentence mitigation
• Immunity from prosecution

• Protection Measures

• Physical protection / protection from retaliation
• Domestic or foreign relocation
• Non-disclosure or limitations on the disclosure of information on identity and whereabouts or hearings
• Sentence mitigation or immunity from prosecution

• Protection and security

• Covert protection programmes
• Police protection

• Details

• Protection offered to family/other relevant persons connected to the witness

Attachments

• ENGLISH_ PS4-96-2010-eng.pdf
• FRANCAIS_ PS4-96-2010-fra.pdf