09-24-2019, 02:49 PM
(09-24-2019, 11:26 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: You are not required to provide identification for a by-law offence, but you are required to identify yourself. In my previous life, I charged many who used verbal ID. If the name/information was false, that's a criminal matter, and police would arrest and hold for proper identification.
While thee may be a desire to give a false name, there are many ways to determine that, and if so, you ave a bigger issue than the by-law ticket.
Coke
Maybe I misunderstand what happens when one is ticketed for an offence. How (without revealing any trade secrets, obviously!) would you go about establishing the true identity of somebody you were attempting to ticket for drinking on a public sidewalk, for example? If they confidently give a name, what would even cause you to suspect it to be an alias? And once the interaction has ended, all you have is a piece of paper with a bogus name on it — I’m not aware of anything that could be used later to tie it to the person, even if the same person commits another offence. It’s not even like going on the 407 with a false plate where one can imagine matching up the video image with other video images and with ownership records to eventually figure out whose car is in the photo. I mean, you don’t photograph people to whom you are giving tickets?