This section features videos, training materials and legal tools to help police officers and Crown prosecutors learn about Canadian bank notes and counterfeiting offences.
These materials will help you assess suspected counterfeits and assist in your investigations. Prevention and deterrence efforts are essential in the fight against counterfeiting.
Police investigations of counterfeiting operations—on any scale—have a direct impact on halting this crime. Your actions prevent others from becoming victims, help to stop other criminal activity that is funded by counterfeiting and contribute to bringing counterfeiters to justice.
Canada’s new bank notes are at the forefront in terms of security and will bolster police efforts to preserve Canada’s economic integrity through effective counterfeit deterrence.
Our training materials can be used to:
The Bank of Canada offers free, postage-paid materials, but reserves the right to limit quantities.
The Bank may contact the requestor prior to shipping to verify that certain audience-specific resources are destined for the right users.
To help build a case to be brought before the courts, the Bank offers trial materials, as well as resources on sentencing and information on precedents.
Counterfeit Canadian Bank Notes, by Professor Patrick Healy, McGill University
Prosecuting Counterfeit Bank Note Offences, Department of Justice
Laboratory Report and Certificate of Examination (RCMP laboratory)
Notice of Intent to Produce Certificate of Examiner of Counterfeit
Legislative History for Victim Impact Statements
Counterfeiting Offences—Sentencing Considerations for Prosecutors
Sentencing for Fraud Over $5,000 Offences
Sentencing for Counterfeit Money Offences
Summary table of sentences for counterfeiting cases 2012
