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Environmental enforcement officers enforce provisions of the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. They conduct inspections to verify compliance with environmental legislation and investigate cases where violations are discovered. Environmental laws and regulations are designed to protect and foster a healthy and sustainable environment; environmental enforcement officers ensure these laws are not broken.
Imagine you are sitting at your desk filling out paperwork when you get a phone call from a concerned citizen. You are an environmental enforcement officer and this person is calling to report a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of the road next to the river. The person is concerned that the truck’s owner is dumping liquid waste into the river. By the time you arrive at the site, the person and the vehicle are gone, but there are a number of plastic drums lying on the riverbank and colourful evidence of a spill along the banks. The dumper has also left footprints and tire tracks leading straight to the highway. This is obviously a situation you will have to deal with. As an environmental enforcement officer, you investigate illegal dumping like the situation you have found today. After ensuring officer and public safety from possible chemical contamination, you start gathering evidence. You call the local RCMP detachment for assistance and ask the responding officers to take imprints of the footprints and tire tracks at the scene and collect fingerprints from the drums. You collect other evidence from the area, including samples from the drums, river water, and surrounding soil. You photograph the scene and canvass the area for witnesses, including the caller who alerted you to the crime. You will take all the evidence to your lab for processing and ensure cleanup is initiated at the site. It is your job to find the person responsible and prove a crime has been committed so charges can be laid and the responsible party can pay for the cleanup.
Imagine you are sitting at your desk filling out paperwork when you get a phone call from a concerned citizen. You are an environmental enforcement officer and this person is calling to report a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of the road next to the river. The person is concerned that the truck’s owner is dumping liquid waste into the river. By the time you arrive at the site, the person and the vehicle are gone, but there are a number of plastic drums lying on the riverbank and colourful evidence of a spill along the banks. The dumper has also left footprints and tire tracks leading straight to the highway. This is obviously a situation you will have to deal with.
As an environmental enforcement officer, you investigate illegal dumping like the situation you have found today. After ensuring officer and public safety from possible chemical contamination, you start gathering evidence. You call the local RCMP detachment for assistance and ask the responding officers to take imprints of the footprints and tire tracks at the scene and collect fingerprints from the drums. You collect other evidence from the area, including samples from the drums, river water, and surrounding soil. You photograph the scene and canvass the area for witnesses, including the caller who alerted you to the crime. You will take all the evidence to your lab for processing and ensure cleanup is initiated at the site. It is your job to find the person responsible and prove a crime has been committed so charges can be laid and the responsible party can pay for the cleanup.