In this regulation:
Act means the Police Act;
DEMS means the information management system approved by Ministerial Order 389/2021;
legacy system, in relation to a law enforcement service, means a system other than DEMS that the law enforcement service uses to manage digital evidence immediately before January 1, 2022;
responsible person means the following person:
in relation to the provincial police service, the commissioner;
in relation to a municipal police department, its chief constable;
in relation to any other law enforcement service, its chief officer;
use means to implement, use, maintain, repair and upgrade.
This regulation applies for the purposes of section 68.1 (3) [requirement to use information management system] of the Act in relation to DEMS.
A law enforcement service
must use DEMS on and after September 30, 2027, and
if specified in column 1 of the Schedule, must begin to phase in the use of DEMS by the date set out opposite in column 2.
A law enforcement service that uses a system other than DEMS or a legacy system to manage digital evidence on or after January 1, 2022 is immediately required to use DEMS.
Despite sections 3 and 4, a law enforcement service is not required to use DEMS in relation to a matter if the responsible person for the law enforcement service, or a person designated by that responsible person, determines, having regard to the director's standards, that the matter is a major case.
Schedule [en. B.C. Reg. 229/2022, App. 4, s. 2.]