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Interception of Private Communications Course

Course detail

Program area: Investigative techniques

Course code: IPCC – Part VI

Register
2024
Course registration details
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
Cost
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

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

Length of course

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
Class size
24 participants
Delivery setting
This course is presented in person.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, successful participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of:
    • Part VI of the Criminal Code
    • applicable case law and its implications to investigations, affidavits and prosecutions; and
    • the affiant's role in relation to investigations, drafting affidavits, and prosecutions
  2. 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
  3. Draft an One-Party Consent affidavit and authorization pursuant to s. 184.2 of the Criminal Code
  4. Draft a Non-Consent affidavit and authorization pursuant to ss. 185 and 186 of the Criminal Code
  5. 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

Assessment

Contact

For more details or other information about the course, please email cpc_registrar-registraire_ccp@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

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