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a S3aiv>awnissa rors MUNICIPAL POLICE FORCES TO MATCH MAFIA WITS THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, June 3, 1966 °2 OE Ontario Stalks Softly Toward Syndicate Crackdown By JOHN LeBLANC TORONTO (CP)--Two widely heralded inquiries into crime in Ontario have stirred up plenty of dust but not much visible re- sult. Now the province's top law enforcement body is planning to start the next round against syndicated or organized crime with less of the trimmings and @ more of the professional investi- gator's touch. members of crime syndicates until the commission's powers were clarified by legislation. CASS EASED OUT New legislation was adopted at a recent session of the legis- lature and the ruckus over this) was such that the first casualty of the commission's report, far from being a _ lawbreaker, turned out to be no less than) ia Attorney-General Fred Cass, Meanwhile, the three-man On- 7 tario Police Commission intends to concentrate on sharpening municipal police forces on the theory this will cut down the breeding potential for big-scale operations. The commission's own direct approach to major crime will be to turn loose a "criminal in- telligence 'officer"--soon to be appointed--to dig up dope in conjunction with police forces. Only when he has laid the ground work will the commis- sion tip its hand and call on the government for authority to launch formal inquiries The two-earlier inquiries took different tacks. Two years ago a provincial royal commission held public hearings for months. Last year the police commis- sion travelled widely and took secret testimony in a series of formal sessions. MAFIA INVOLVED The two bodies came up with conclusions as divergent as their methods The royal commission ported last year there was no evidence of "'alarming" organ- ized crime beyond gambling. The police body found this year there. was organization in narcotics, bookmaking and other gambling, counterfeiting, highgrading (theft of precious ores) and stolen goods disposal, plus a lesser degree of manage- re- P witnesses talk that on the same COMMISSION CHAIRMAN R. PERCY MILLIGAN ment in prostitution, the extor- tion and protection rackets, bus- iness - type frauds and even bingo They were agreed that the Mafia did not control crime here but the later inquiry found --as the first did not--that its| tentacles reached into Ontario in several fields including he suspicion of at least four. mur- ders in the last 25 years. "We intend to start where the last. report left off," says R. Percy Milligan, a Cornwall crown attorney who became chairman of the three-man po- lice commission this year. The last investigation was conducted under his predeces- sor, District Judge Bruce Mac- donald of Windsor, reported to have quit because the attorney- general's department would not jlet him subpoena suspected Mr, Cass fell in so enthusias- tically with the commission's request for more power to make day its report was issued he brought in a bill so drastic that he himself labelled it "danger- ous." In the subsequent furore over allegations of 'police state" tacties, he was eased out | of the cabinet and the bill was toned down. | Under the modified legisia- \of its 16 major recommenda- dishonest were allowed to re-|tions show signs of being side-|to "find out if criminal syndi-jto hear any witness in secret sign, Two gambling kingpins,|tracked. New Attorney-General|cates are coming into our ter-if the witness wants it that who had already been convicted|A, A. Wishart, member of the/ritory." He is expected to be aj way. before the inquiry opened, even-|legislature for Sault Ste. Marie top-rated crime specialist from! tually went to jail after ex-'since only last September, is the OPP hausting appeals. Almost a year after the re- port came down, three lawyers were reprimanded by the Law Society. of Upper Canada for un- becoming relations with erimin- als discloseq during the probe. And more than a year after the report the only criminal charge to result from the: in- quiry is still .hanging fire. Sammy Balsom a St. Cathar- ines bookie and alleged liaison man between gamblers and po- lice several years ago, has been charged with committing per- jury before the royal commis- sion. While there has been only two months since the appear- ance of the later report, several 'not rushing into the fatal elan' lof his predecessor. /REJECT WIRE-TAPPING | On many points he has either iturned them down or side- |stepped them. A key recom- |mendation, authorization for jwire «tapping, was flatly re-| ljecte One of those aceepted -- not needing legislation--was the ap-| pointment of intelligence offi-) cers for the commission and the provincial police to keep posted on the activities of known criminals and swap information between themselves and with the RCMP. A function of the police com- mission's intelli gence officer, Chairman Milligan said, wil be tion, the commission will have to go to a judge to get a con- tempt order to loosen a recalci- |trant witness's tongue. Under) Mr. Cass's bill, it could have lapplied one eight-day jail term! \after another until either the |commission or the witness tired. | As it happened, the earlier) jroyal commission inquiry didn't) do any good for Mr. Cass's pre-| \decessor in the attormey-gener-| lalship, the next-to-top job in icabinet prestige. Attorney-Gen-| jeral Kelso Roberts, who had jbeen under opposition attack for alleged laxity, got a clean |bill of health from the royal |commission but by the time its) report appeared he had been) |moved over to the more tran-) 94a lands and forests post. | POLICEMEN RESIGN | Lesser figures hac varying) consequences from the royal) commission. Two provincial po- lice officers found to have been| WHITBY at S John Kapuscinski's Place AT HIGHWAY NO, 12, 3 MILES NORTH OF pringhill Park OUR SPECIALTIES SPAGHETTI, Pl CHICKEN ... THIS WEEKEND SPECIAL ., . ZZA, BAR-B-Q ICE CREAM SPAGHETTI regularly 1.20 this weekord "Y PRICE r) PIZZA regularly 1.00 this weekend 2 price Dowager BBC's Cavorting | Leaves Britons Uneasy LONDON (AP)--They used to call her Aunty BBC but nowa-jyear the BBC called off thelyear was the Greek pl@y Lysis-| days she seems to be getting a shade too sassy for some peo- ple's comfort. 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