43 



44 



LF6 



Jan. 11 to 

 Jan. 22, 1971 



Jan. 25 to 

 Feb. 5,1971 



O.F.T. 

 School 



O.F.T. 

 School 



Aug. 24 to O.F.T. 

 Sept. 11,1970 School 



14 



11 



24 



1138 



839 



1983 



81 

 76 

 83 



*Onlario Police College and Department Instructors 



LAW ENFORCEMENT COURSES, 1964-71 



Year 



Number of Department Staff Attending Courses 

 Department O.P.C. 



1964-65 114 



1965-66 98 



1966-67 103 



1967-68 58 



1968-69 45 



1969-70 38 



1970-71 37 



22 

 22 

 17 

 26 

 33 



493 



144 



*No training available 



HUNTING LICENCE EXAMINATIONS 



The objective of the hunting licence examination is to pro- 

 vide a uniform method of testing the skill and knowledge of 

 new hunters in handling firearms while hunting and thereby 

 reduce hunting accidents. 



The hunting accident rate shows a very impressive decline 

 in the past decade. In 1960, there were 146 hunting acci- 

 dents, of which 34 were fatal, providing a ratio of 27 

 accidents per 100,000 licences. In 1970, there were 78 acci- 

 dents, of which eight were fatal, providing a ratio of 13 

 accidents per 100,000 licences. 



Compulsory training and the province-wide examination 

 of all new hunters by conservation officer examiners has 

 been responsible in large part for this reduction in accidents. 



The total number of examinations in 1970 was 23,943, 

 continuing a steady increase from the time of its inception. 

 The success rate for examinations passed has levelled off in 

 the order of 80 to 85 per cent. During the three years that 

 the hunting licence examination has been in effect, 72,000 

 hunters have been tested. 



The twenty-one forest districts reported the following 

 examinations conducted in 1970. 



Kemptville 1,774 



Lake Erie 3,891 



Lake Huron 2,831 



Lake Simcoe 4,327 



Lindsay 939 



Parry Sound 557 



Pembroke 414 



Tweed 1 ,612 



Chapleau 105 



Cochrane 401 



Kapuskasing 372 



North Bay 752 



Sault Ste. Marie 922 



Sudbury 1,545 



Swastika 508 



Fort Frances 309 



Geraldton 184 



Kenora 390 



Sioux Lookout 243 



Thunder Bay 1,187 



White River 230 



TOTAL 23,493 



CENTRAL LICENCE BUREAU 



In 1970, the Central Licence Bureau received about 1,800,000 

 licence copies from some 3,900 licence issuers across the 

 Province. Of these, about 600,000 were resident angling 

 licences, 600,000 were non-resident angling licences, and 

 the remaining 600,000 were hunting licences. 



These licences were used to verify licence purchases in 

 order to issue a duplicate licence if a current one was lost. 

 The hunting licences were also put on file to meet requests 

 from hunters to verify licence purchases in compliance with 

 hunter training regulations. To date, there are hunting 

 licence copies on file since the fall of 1968, about two mil- 

 lion in total. In the past year, over 800 hunters lost their 

 licences and requested the verification services of the Cen- 

 tral Licence Bureau for which a search fee of SI was charged. 



The licence files serve as the universe from which a sample 

 of sportsmen is selected. These sportsmen receive question- 

 naires that are designed to evaluate the state of the resource 

 (whether it be angling or hunting) as well as its impact on 

 our society. The survey results aid in planning future fish 

 and wildlife management. The Bureau contacted some 

 80,000 sportsmen in angling and hunting surveys during 

 the year. 



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