CONFIDENTIAL CRIMINAL RECORDS MADE PUBLIC

Vancouver - A Vancouver police officer is hanging confidential police
reports on the walls of a controversial conference on drugs.

The criminal records of 70 individuals - some of them six metres long -
were tacked to a wall to demonstrate what the long criminal records of some
repeat offenders look like.

They were posted by Vancouver Police Constable Gerry Wickstead, one of the
speakers at the conference."We're trying to show that there's too much
money spent on people going in and out of jail," he says.

The documents came from a police computer, and aren't supposed to be made
public. The conference's technical agenda even refers to them as
"confidential police reports - not to be lost".

Wickstead calls the reports "somewhat confidential", and says he has
removed all the names. He says when the conference is over, the
confidential reports will be shredded.

Vancouver Police spokesperson, detective Scott Driemel, says "C-PIC reports
are certainly confidential", but would not comment further on the issue.