12 - Wednesday, July 20, 1994 - North Shore News

Kevin
Gillies

INQUIRING REPORTER

LAW ENFORCEMENT agencies across Canada are having a diffi.
cult time keeping track of those nasty criminals, Tt seems the bad

guys have picked ap an how easy itis to change thelr names to hide
the fact that they have a criminal record ov warrants for their arrest,
The problent rests with the faet that provincial privacy tegislation
prevents authorities from disclosing (o potice when erlininats change
their names. Therefore police cannot enter (he new informatian in
their databuses, KCo's coordinated Law Enforcement Unit recently

Do you suppor t making r name changes more difficult?

completed a study of 400 randomty selected men who have had their
mames changed in the last four years. The study found that ase had
criminal records. OF those, 6957 bad sat boon entered in police Infors
mation records, B.C. hits become the first province to close the loop.
hole by requiring thal names be con through ROMP vampatecs
hefore they are chuoged. Bul iG is not Conuda-wide, The head of
Ontario's Criminal Intelligence Service thinks a unified approach is
needed to prevent abuse of name changes.

Bob Pedersen

Henrietta Smith

North Vancouver

No, [ think it’s OK. U
anyone wants to change
their name it's fine by
me.

Christine McDonald
North Vancouver

Yes | would because it's
mostly people trying to
hide something who are
changing their names,

Steve Hutchinson
North Vancouver
Tagree. Ib makes sense
that changing your name
should be difficult.

Caro! Challis

North Vancouver

Yes, Po support that. |
doi think it should get
any easier. te shouldn't
be possible for danger

N. Van assault charge laid

AN ARGUMENT over a bottle
of wine on July 9 escalated into
an alleged assault ‘avolving a
knife and a shovet near Mountain
Highway and Rupert Street in
North Vancouver.

Police initially received a
report that several males were
fighting near the intersection at
12:30 a.m., according to a North
Vancouver RCMP spokesman.

Police say the preliminary
investigation revealed that the
alleged assault involved an
assailant amned with a knife, and
a victim, a North Vancouver
male in his late teens, defending
himself with a shovel.

Robert MacTavish, 20, of

North Vancouver, is charged
with assault using a weapon in
connection with the incident.

Dancing
dispute
examined

ous offenders,

TWO NORTH Vancouver men
were allegedly threatened with a
knife on July 9 ata nightclub in
Nerth Vancouver City.

The confrontation allegedly
occurred when they bumped into a
man on the dance Hoor,

Staff members at the Waterfront

Nosth Vancouver

Yes because it would be
detrimental to aur secu.
rity if you didn’t know
whe you were dealing
with.

Bistro, 123 Carrie Cates Court,
intervened in the altercation,
according to a North Vancouver
RCMP spokesman,

No injurics were reported,

Graharn Hodges, 23, is charged
with assault with a weapon in con-
nection with the incident.

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