Note
Tilte from cover.
"Literacy and policing in Canada: target crime with literacy"--cover.
"Published May 2008"--cover.
"This resource manual is a publication by the Literacy and Policing Project of the Canadian
Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and its Crime Prevention
Committee"--page 3.
"The goal of the Literacy and Policing in Canada project is to work with police organizations on a professional development initiative aimed at increasing police awareness of literacy challenges that may be a factor in their interactions with victims of crime, suspects, witnesses and the general public. It will encourage police and community to work together in using creative and proven means to break down the barrier to justice that illiteracy can represent, and advocate and promote literacy initiatives at the local community level."--Literacy and Policing in Canada web site.
Issued also in French under title: Manuel de ressources : les services policiers et les problèmes d’alphabétisation.
Contents
1. Orientation to literacy -- 2. The impacts of low literacy on communities, crime and the justice system -- 3. Legal -- 4. How to recognize the signals and act on the reality of low literacy -- 5. Resources.