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Keeping Alberta families and communities safe

The Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, holds high-risk offenders accountable and helps create an independent police agency.

Status: The Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, received Royal Assent on May 16, 2024.
Ministry responsible: Public Safety and Emergency Services

Overview

The Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, (formerly Bill 11) will create a provincial ankle bracelet monitoring program and improve government’s ability to respond to communities’ requests for additional law enforcement support.

These amendments will strengthen Alberta’s current policing model and combat rising crime, create safer streets and neighbourhoods, and protect our communities.

Key changes

The act updates the Police Act and the Police Amendment Act, 2022 to enable the creation of new independent agency police service, which will help bring the police-like functions performed by the Alberta Sheriffs under the same kind of legislative framework and civilian oversight as Alberta’s other police services.

The legislation also updates to the Corrections Act, enabling courts to add electronic monitoring to an individual’s bail or community-release conditions.

  • Police Act and Police Amendment Act, 2022

    The amendments enable the creation of a new independent agency police service that will support the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), municipal police services and First Nations police services in Alberta. 

    • This new agency will:
      • support police services across the province, enabling them to partner with additional police resources to increase frontline response efforts and keep communities safe 
      • operate independently from government, as all Alberta’s police services do now
      • follow best practices, which include being subject to a civilian oversight board to ensure police accountability
        • This board will have a role similar to local police commissions, which provide independent civilian oversight of municipal and First Nations police services in Alberta.

  • Corrections Act

    • Individuals subject to a court-ordered electronic monitoring condition will be required to wear a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device on their ankle. 
      • This device will be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by a centralized monitoring unit within Alberta Correctional Services.
    • This program will align Alberta with jurisdictions across Canada running similar programs.

Next steps

Alberta’s ankle bracelet electronic monitoring program is expected during winter 2024 and will become fully operational in 2025. 

The amendments to the Police Act and the Police Amendment Act, 2022 came into force on Royal Assent.

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