Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 47 • A police investigation is one carried out by the police, or other persons who carry out a policing function that involves investigations.163 For example, a police investigation may include an investigation by a special constable appointed under The Police Act, 1990. • A security investigation includes activities carried out by, for or concerning a local authority and relates to the security of the organization and its clients, staff, resources or the public. It includes the work that is done to secure, ensure safety or protect from danger, theft or damage. In order to qualify, the investigation must lead or could lead to a penalty or sanction imposed under a statute, regulation, bylaw or resolution.164 • An administrative investigation refers to activities undertaken to enforce compliance or to remedy non-compliance with standards, duties and responsibilities imposed by statute or regulation.165 For example, investigations under The Securities Act, 1988 as the Act provides for such investigative powers. A regulation is understood to mean a regulation as defined by section 1-2 of The Legislation Act. The local authority must have authority to conduct the investigation and the investigation must lead or could lead to penalties or sanctions (i.e., fines, imprisonment, revocation of a license, an order to cease activities).166 The penalties or sanctions do not have to be imposed by the investigating body to qualify but can be referred to another body to impose the penalty or sanction (e.g., RCMP).167 Prevention means the stopping of something, especially something bad, from happening; to hinder or impede.168 In the context of subsection 14(1)(a) of LA FOIP, it means the stopping of an offence. A prosecution, in this context, refers to proceedings in respect of a criminal or quasi-criminal charge laid under an enactment of Saskatchewan or Canada and may include regulatory offences that carry true penal consequences such as imprisonment or a significant fine.169 163 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4, p. 146. 164 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4, p. 146. 165 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4, p. 146. 166 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4, p. 145. 167 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4, p. 146. 168 Garner, Bryan A., 2009. Black’s Law Dictionary, Deluxe 10th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1380. 169 ON IPC Order PO-3424-I at [27].
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