Ottawa police consider making volunteers pay for background checks

Coaches, festival assistants, scout leaders and other volunteers could be forced to pay for background checks if the Ottawa Police Service decides they need to help shoulder the $4.7-million cost of providing the documents.
Public consultations are scheduled to begin in June on options for restructuring the fees for police background checks. The options, revealed Monday during a meeting of the police services board’s finance committee, include charging volunteers for the search results, wh