Interception of Private Communications Course
Course details
2024
| Session(s) | Location | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24-01 English | Ottawa | 2024-06-17 | 2024-06-28 |
| 24-02 English | Ottawa | 2024-10-28 | 2024-11-08 |
| Tuition |
|---|
| $4,800.00 |
Notes
- Accommodations are offered to course participants. Our rooms are subject to availability and the request must be indicated on the course registration form
- Meal plans are offered to course participants. The specific meal plan must be indicated on the course registration form
- Travel grant funding is available to our non-federal law enforcement agencies
2025
| Session(s) | Location | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25-01 English | Ottawa | 2025-04-28 | 2025-05-09 |
| 25-02 English | Ottawa | 2025-10-27 | 2025-11-07 |
| Tuition |
|---|
| $4,975.00 |
Notes
- Accommodations are offered to course participants. Our rooms are subject to availability and the request must be indicated on the course registration form
- Meal plans are offered to course participants. The specific meal plan must be indicated on the course registration form
- Travel grant funding is available to our non-federal law enforcement agencies
Description
This course is an advanced-level legal application-drafting course aimed to assist participants make sense of Part VI of the Criminal Code and apply the statutory requirements pertaining to an authorization for the interception of private communications, including emergency wiretap, one-party consent, and full wiretap authorizations.
During the course, participants are exposed to wiretap principles, and legal and drafting requirements to obtain authorizations to intercept private communications. The course follows a problem-based learning approach founded on fact-based case scenarios supplemented by presentations on specific issues and individual evaluations from knowledgeable subject matter resources.
In addition to presentations, participants will be provided scenario materials which they must use to draft their affidavit and grounds for belief. The course instructor and the Facilitators/Syndicate Leaders will review and evaluate participant affidavits and accompanying authorizations. Feedback will be provided to guide participants learning with the goal of preparing documents that meet the minimum standard as would be assessed by the court.
Format and delivery
- Delivery setting
- This course is presented in person.
- Length of course
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12 days
- Pre-course assignment
- Approximately 15 hours to complete pre-course reading and a pre-course drafting assignment (self-paced)
- After class assignments
- Students should be prepared to complete between 45 to 55 hours of study/assignments outside of scheduled class time and on weekends to complete required learning activities
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, successful participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of:
- Part VI of the Criminal Code
- applicable case law and its implications to investigations, affidavits and prosecutions
- the affiant's role in relation to investigations, drafting affidavits, and prosecutions
- Demonstrate knowledge of the concept of full, fair and frank disclosure, and apply this concept concisely to information gathered during an investigation, including information from confidential informants, when drafting reasonable grounds and articulating investigative necessity
- Draft a One-Party Consent affidavit and authorization pursuant to s. 184.2 of the Criminal Code
- Draft a Non-Consent affidavit and authorization pursuant to ss. 185 and 186 of the Criminal Code
- Demonstrate understanding of the principles governing the defence of an affidavit and be able to apply them to the actual preparation of the affidavit as well as the defence of the affidavit in court
Eligibility and mandatory requirements
- This course is offered to police officers in Canada who are or who are about to become affiants in wiretap investigations. Subject to the approval of CPC, the course may also be offered to Crown counsel for a federal or provincial prosecutorial agency
- The registrant has to have experience in drafting Information to Obtain/ Affidavit and Warrant/Orders
- Applications must include documents showing that the applicant has successfully an intermediate-level search warrant drafting course, such as the Drafting Information to Obtain (DITO) course, or an equivalent recognized by the CPC. For the purpose of this requirement, an intermediate course is one that is a minimum five days in length
- Applications must include documents showing that the applicant has successfully completed the online course, "Overview of Intercepting Private Communications", available on the Canadian Police Knowledge Network (CPKN) for non-RCMP applicants, and on Agora for RCMP applicants
- Applicants must complete and pass a pre course screening exam to be accepted into the course
- Applications must include a letter of support from your Line Officer
- Acceptance or refusal in the course is at the discretion of the Canadian Police College
Assessment
- Success in the course is based on participation and completion of all required assignments
- Various evaluation methods are used including practical evaluations and a written exam
- Practical evaluations require students to write two separate wiretap authorizations based on a course-long criminal investigation scenario
- Final written exam requires a minimum score of 80% to receive a passing grade
- Re-testing or re-evaluation is conducted at the discretion of the course instructor
Contact
For more details or other information about the course, please email cpc_registrar-registraire_ccp@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
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