Ancillary Police Powers in Canada

John W. Burchill is an instructor at the University of Manitoba, chief of staff with the Winnipeg Police Service, and president of the Winnipeg Police Museum and Historical Society. He received the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba’s Award for Historical Preservation in 2020 and was inducted into the Governor General of Canada's Order of Merit in 2010. His publications include volumes 1 and 2 of Pioneer Policemen: The History of the Manitoba Provincial Police. Richard Jochelson is the Dean of Law at the University of Manitoba. A widely published scholar, he also spearheaded Robsoncrim.com, a leading research blog that undergirds the Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at Massey College. He has held positions with Canada’s National Judicial Institute, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Ontario’s Ministry of the Solicitor General. He is the co-author of Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice. Terry Skolnik is a research professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and the executive director of the Academy for Justice, at Arizona State University. He is also an associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. He was formerly an officer in the Montreal Police Service.

Introduction: Judicial Oversight of Police Powers in Canada

Part 1: History and Context

1 The Common Law Constable

2 The Supreme Court’s Embrace of the Ancillary Powers Doctrine

with Lauren Gowler

Part 2: Judicial Expansion of Police Powers

3 Search Incident to Arrest

with Lauren Gowler

4 An Empirical Analysis of Ancillary Power Generation and Deployment

with Lauren Gowler

Part 3: Critiquing Police Powers

5 The Doctrine’s Proportionality Problem

6 Ancillary Police Powers and the Black Experience in Canada

7 The Doctrine as a One-Way Ratchet

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index