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Community Alert

Date11/19/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Community Alert: Staff Inspector James Newsome; left; Marie Curtis; who is with a victim assistance program; Constable Diane MacInnis and Inspector Joe Wolfe advise a public forum on precautions against rapists.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0120481F
Park Attack: Actors recreate brutality of sex assault on a young jogger
Park Attack: Actors recreate brutality of sex assault on a young jogger
9/18/1985
Rapist-catching kit: A box full of materials and instructions for doctors examining rape victims has been credited with raising the conviction rate of their assailants to 70 per cent
Rapist-catching kit: A box full of materials and instructions for doctors examining rape victims has been credited with raising the conviction rate of their assailants to 70 per cent
9/21/1984
Bycycle Seized: Metro police Constable Mervyn Dennis shows the bike left behind yesterday by a rapist who escaped after being chased by a jogger
Bycycle Seized: Metro police Constable Mervyn Dennis shows the bike left behind yesterday by a rapist who escaped after being chased by a jogger
11/30/1991
Rapist-catching kit: A box full of materials and instructions for doctors examining rape victims has been credited with raising the conviction rate of their assailants to 70 per cent
Rapist-catching kit: A box full of materials and instructions for doctors examining rape victims has been credited with raising the conviction rate of their assailants to 70 per cent
9/21/1984
Care urged: Women in suburban areas aren't immune to attacks, so police are advising them to be careful
Care urged: Women in suburban areas aren't immune to attacks, so police are advising them to be careful
10/16/1975
Rape whistle should be carried, not worn on chain around neck
Rape whistle should be carried, not worn on chain around neck
10/16/1975
Aftermath of attack: Police check out a car in which a woman who had been attacked got free of her assailant by grabbing the wheel and forcing it into a parked car
Aftermath of attack: Police check out a car in which a woman who had been attacked got free of her assailant by grabbing the wheel and forcing it into a parked car
4/12/1983
Underground parking areas can frighten the woman who travels alone
Underground parking areas can frighten the woman who travels alone
10/16/1975
Poster features text only.
Rock against rape benefit
1991
Twice unlucky: An alert policeman no sooner nabbed a suspect and got back $1,300 stolen from this bank at Church and Wellesley, when it was hit by a second robber
Twice unlucky: An alert policeman no sooner nabbed a suspect and got back $1,300 stolen from this bank at Church and Wellesley, when it was hit by a second robber
1/24/1983
Arctic expedition, 1875-6 H.M. ships Alert and Discovery captains G.S. Nares, F.R.S. and H.E. Stephenson, R.N.
Arctic expedition, 1875-6 H.M. ships Alert and Discovery captains G.S. Nares, F.R.S. and H.E. Stephenson, R.N.
1878
Survival instructor Bill Garrard cuts a feather stick - an easy way to start a fire - during a demonstration of wilderness survival techniques in the Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Three fires 50 yards apart in a triangle is the standrad signal to alert a
Survival instructor Bill Garrard cuts a feather stick - an easy way to start a fire - during a demonstration of wilderness survival techniques in the Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Three fires 50 yards apart in a triangle is the standrad signal to alert a
1/22/1978