FSC271H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Body Snatching, Rare Disease, Forensic Anthropology
Document Summary
Overview of death investigation and the current system in ontario. Speak for the dead to protect the living". Uses death investigations and inquests: use findings to improve public safety and prevent deaths in similar circumstances. Death investigation for a safer healthier ontario: supports administration of justice, prevention of premature death, and ontario"s needs. Values: integrity, responsiveness, excellence, accountability, diversity. Coroner"s act: legislative framework to investigate death, order autopsy, conduct inquest, authorize cremation etc, changes in 2009 from bill 115, defining the ofps, roles of the chief forensic pathologist, establish oversight council, registry of pathologists. Improved death investigation services to first nations communities. Occ: death investigation, inquests, identification, cremation certificates, out of province shipments. Ofps: medicolegal autopsies, registry of pathologists, expert witness testimony, related forensic pathology services. To advance public safety and support the criminal justice system in ontario. Attend to the site of the body. Consult with police, ems, hospital staff, family, etc. Assist families by answering questions about death.
