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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, July 2, 2015 | 4 Our 4 week summer sale where the savings get bigger each week! Shop early for the largest selection. Can you afford to wait? Just Colo d d A `Carding' not problematic in Halton: chief by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff ENT! 50% OFF July 2nd - 8th ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT! EV 60% 40% OFF June 18th July 91st - 15 July EG REAT G E D R A FLOWERING TREES AND STANDARDS · FLOWERING SHRUBS · ANNUALS · PERENNIALS · TOOLS PLANTERS · HANGING BASKETS · IRRIGATION · HOME DÉCOR · PATIO FURNITURE · ROSES · GLOVES VINES · UMBRELLAS · 10" TROPICAL PLANTS · DOOR MATS · EVERGREENS · ANNUAL GRASSES DOOR CR ASHERS $9.99 Fri. July 3rd Only 150 per store. Reg. $29.99 $9.99 Sat. July 4th Only 200 per store. Reg. $34.99 $9.99 Sun. July 5th Hicks Yew - 2 Gal. Only 150 per store. Reg. $29.99 Only 75 per store. Reg. $79.99 $34.99 Mon. July 6th Euonymus Standard Only 40 per store. Reg. $79.99 $29.99 Tues. July 7th 9'Market Umbrella 10" Annual Hydrangea 12" Planter OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK: Mon. - Fri. 8am - 8pm, Sat & Sun. 8am - 6pm All items while quantities last, subject to availability. Category offers exclude "TERRA Essentials" Sale period: July 2nd - 8th Burlington (905) 332-3222 · Milton (905) 876-4000 Waterdown (905) 689-1999 ·Vaughan (905) 832-6955 · Hamilton (905) 692-6900 www.terragreenhouses.com While the police practice of carding may be controversial in Toronto, Halton Police Chief Stephen Tanner says no one is complaining about it here. At Thursday's Halton Regional Police Services Board meeting, Tanner was asked about `carding'. The chief said "field contacting" has been in place in Halton for decades and called it an important investigative tool. It involves obtaining the name and contact information of suspicious persons. "There are many, many times where a police officer encounters an individual in a suspicious type of situation. It's 3 a.m., they are behind an industrial mall. There have been break-ins there recently," said Tanner. "What is the person doing there? I think the public expects us to investigate that sort of person. There may not be grounds to arrest that person during that situation, but they are certainly a person of interest and by talking to them, police may get some intelligence information that later links someone to a crime." Tanner emphasized the police service has policies in place to prevent field contacting from becoming an infringement on civil liberties or racial profiling. He also said, to the best of his knowledge, there has never been a complaint filed by anyone contacted by police in this manner in Halton. If there are a series of daytime breakins taking place in an area, he said, it is important for police to know who is in that area at that time of day. Learning someone was in a place when a crime occurred can help police identify potential suspects and witnesses, said Tanner. It could also mean a person has an airtight alibi for a crime happening at the same time somewhere else. Tanner said field contacting has been helped solve serious crimes. He referenced a 1982 murder in Burlington, which was solved because police were able to place a suspect within a few blocks of the murder scene. Tanner said police were able to do that because an officer approached a suspicious man the night of the murder and took down his name and information. "If we didn't have that contact card. We may have never solved that," said Tanner. "There are situations where those contact cards become extremely important." ur TH N