Cpl Carissa Hornoi

Cpl Carissa Hornoi, the head of the Community Policing Office in Prince George, and Liaison officer for our partnership between the RCMP and Operation Red Nose, spoke to the club regarding the requirements of the Criminal Record Checks (CRC) that Rotarians and volunteers are required to complete each year for our Operation Red Nose Program as well as the CRC that is required every 4 years for our Rotary Youth Exchange Program.

The annual CRC is a requirement of the National Office of Operation Red Nose, as a condition of our contract to host the Red Nose Program.  Cpl Hornoi has been very helpful in accommodating these CRC's for the program, despite the fact that the CRC conditions seem to get a little more detailed each year.  This year, 2010, many volunteers including a few Rotarians were required to be finger printed as part of the process, due to the fact that an applicant for a CRC had the unfortunate reality of being the same gender and have the same birthday as an individual somewhere else in Canada that had a previous conviction of an offense under similar criteria, such as a sexual offense.  These few cases took longer to process, but did not impair the delivery of the program.

Cpl Hornoi is also convinced that as the Administrator for our CRC applications, she is in a position to apply the one CRC to cover the Youth Exchange CRC requirement that is only required every 4 years.

Any other organizations that require a CRC for a volunteer, such as Scouts Canada or a Youth Service Program, must be dealt with as separate applications.

Cpl Hornoi as thanked by President Elect Kelly Zammit, with a donation to our Polio Plus Program.