Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond released the following statement on the driver record review and remedial programs:

The BC Coroners Service has announced an inquest into the death of Roland Joseph Bourque.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in a motor vehicle incident near Port Alberni on Jan. 25, 2013.

While the Prolific Offender Management (POM) pilot has now concluded, the best practices learned through the program will be continued in each of the pilot communities and incorporated throughout the province to ensure co-ordinated supervision, enforcement, and access to services for chronic offenders.

Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond has issued the following statement: We received the auditor general's access and security audit on the JUSTIN system and thank him for his recommendations and the additional time he provided us to improve the system that integrates, manages and stores criminal case information from provincial justice agencies.

For the first time in British Columbia courtroom history 14 jurors will be sworn in for a lengthy trial beginning today in B.C. Supreme Court.

British Columbia will be the first province to introduce licensing requirements for Private Investigators Under Supervision (PIUS) licence applicants.

The Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles (OSMV) has been conducting a review of the individual files of approximately 1,200 drivers referred to remedial programs under the Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) program.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a woman who died in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crash near Sooke on Jan. 12, 2013.