P-13.1, r. 2.01 - By-law respecting the internal discipline of members of the Sûreté du Québec

Section 3 Disposition versions

2012-12-13

3. Members must respect the rights of any person in their custody and refrain from any indulgence towards that person.

The following in particular constitute breaches of discipline:

(1)  being negligent in the custody or supervision of a person in their custody;

(2)  furnishing a person in their custody with alcoholic beverages, narcotics, hallucinogenic drugs, narcotic or anaesthetic preparations or any other substance capable of causing intoxication, weakening or disturbance of the faculties or unconsciousness;

(3)  doing business of any kind with a person in their custody or attempting to obtain any benefit from that person or to give that person any benefit;

(4)  except in an emergency, searching a person of the opposite sex;

(5)  failing to search any person confined in their custody or, in the case of a confined person of the opposite sex, failing to have a search made by a person of the same sex;

(6)  failing to keep in a safe place anything taken from a person in their custody;

(7)  failing to make entries in the prison register and the register of confiscated objects;

(8)  interfering in communications between a person in their custody and that person’s attorney;

(9)  using greater force than necessary in dealing with a person in their custody;

(10)  failing to watch over the safety and health of a person in their custody;

(11)  permitting the incarceration of a young offender with an adult or of a female person with a male person, except in cases provided for by law.

O.C. 1076-2012, s. 3.