An Overview of the

Field Information Report Review

and the Implementation of

Community Inquiry Reports (306s)&

Community Inquiry Report Receipts (307s)

What are the GOALS of the Service’s Review?

• To enable officers to recognise and identify various types of police-community interactions

• To provide officers with procedural support for discretion and decision making capacity regarding police-community interactions

• To reduce the social cost of police-community interactions while increasing the public safety outcomes that result from those interactions

What are the 3 Ways a Police Officer Engages with the

Community?

Informal Interaction

Community Inquiry

Investigative Detention / Arrest

CommunityMember

PoliceOfficer

InformalInteraction

Interaction Concludes

with noDocumentation

Informal Interaction ‐ A simple “meet‐and‐greet” communication between a police officer and a community member, wherein a limited exchange of information may occur.

What does this mean?

CommunityMember

PoliceOfficer

CommunityInquiry

Interaction may Conclude

with or withoutDocumentation

Community

Community Inquiry – An in‐person communication between a police officer and a community member wherein the police officer, for the purposes of preserving the peace and/or preventing crimes or other offences, makes inquiry of a community member.This does not include Informal Interactions.

What does this mean?

An Informal Interaction or Community Inquiry is an encounter wherein the community member is not obligated to participate and may freely choose to withdraw from the process or voluntarily continue with the encounter.

CommunityMember

PoliceOfficer

Community Membermay freely

withdraw from a Community Inquiry

or an Informal Interaction

InformalInteraction

CommunityInquiry

The Receipt (307s)

• The handwritten receipt (TPS 307) is offered to a person once an officer has determined a TPS 306/CIR is to be submitted

• The person is not obligated to take the receipt

• Once a Community Inquiry is initiated, the person may request, and is entitled to, a receipt (even if he/she declines to provide his/her particulars)

c) assisting victims of crime;d) apprehending criminals and other offenders and others who may lawfully 

be taken into custody;e) laying charges and participating in prosecutions;f) executing warrants that are to be executed by police officers and 

performing related duties;g) performing the lawful duties that the chief of police assigns;h) in the case of a municipal police force and in the case of an agreement 

under section 10 (agreement for provision of police services by O.P.P.), enforcing municipal by‐laws;

i) completing the prescribed training. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15, s. 42 (1); 1997, c. 8, s. 28.

42.(1) The duties of a police officer include,a) preserving the peace;b) preventing crimes and other offences and providing assistance and 

encouragement to other persons in their prevention;c) assisting victims of crime;d) apprehending criminals and other offenders and others who may lawfully 

be taken into custody;e) laying charges and participating in prosecutions;f) executing warrants that are to be executed by police officers and 

performing related duties;g) performing the lawful duties that the chief of police assigns;h) in the case of a municipal police force and in the case of an agreement 

under section 10 (agreement for provision of police services by O.P.P.), enforcing municipal by‐laws;

i) completing the prescribed training. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15, s. 42 (1); 1997, c. 8, s. 28.

What are the Duties of a Police Officer under the Police Services Act?

42.(1) The duties of a police officer include,a) preserving the peace;b) preventing crimes and other offences

What are your Rights Under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Life, liberty and security of person7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to bedeprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

Search or seizure8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

Detention or imprisonment9. Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.

Arrest or detention10. Everyone has the right on arrest or detention(a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor;

(b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and(c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to bereleased if the detention is not lawful.

How Are Officers Being Trained?

Communicating in a professional, respectful, and unbiased manner

Explaining the reasons for our actionsCommunicating what we are doing and why we are doing it is an important part of developing a better relationship with our community members

The Golden Rule: Treat people the way you would want your family to be treated

The police have every right to interact and converse with a community member. However, this must be a voluntary encounter.

The community member has every right to decline to speak to the police and may be uncivil during this interaction. This does not form the grounds to arrest or detain a community member.

Police officers cannot use their status to make a community member feel that they have no choice but to speak to the police.

Officers must always be mindful of an individual’s human rights.

Officers must always be mindful of the perception of Racially Biased Policing. This occurs when a member inappropriately considers race and ethnicity in deciding how and with whom to intervene in an enforcement capacity; this includes racial profiling.