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| Canadian Inmate Found With Blank Police ID Cards |
| By The Globe and Mail |
| Published: 10/14/2002 |
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Everyone jokes about convicts manufacturing license plates, but how about a convict getting his hands on a blank police card? Quebec's provincial police have cancelled a contract with a private print shop operating from inside a prison that produced identification cards for police investigators. Employees, not the prisoners, were supposed to handle the sensitive documents, but the scheme went awry after an inmate was found three months ago with templates for blank police ID cards. 'I was surprised when I heard the news,' Public Security Minister Normand Jutras said recently. 'I find it unusual that such a contract would be awarded to a detention centre. It's particularly tricky.' He said he had received reassurances from Sûreté du Québec director Florent Gagné that such contracts no longer will be tendered to prison work programs. Mr. Jutras said inmates are searched on entering and leaving the print shop and had no access to the blank police identifications. However, defective cards were tossed into the garbage without being shredded, he said, enabling a resourceful prisoner to recover them. 'The mistake was one of waste management.' The contract was awarded two years ago to a private company that runs a print shop at Orsainville provincial prison in Quebec City. |
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