The Quebec government is creating a coordination unit that will support police investigations when people have been drugged without their knowledge.
Public Security Minister François Bonnardel announced Tuesday morning that the Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine Laboratory will receive $2.3 million to set up this specialized team.
With this new coordination unit, the government hopes the lab will be able to monitor cases where victims are drugged unknowingly, more closely for example with GHB, so that it can follow up with police forces responsible for the investigations.
“In particular, we want information to circulate properly if several victims are drugged in the same place, or in different places with the same substance,” he said.
According to Bonnardel, “thanks to the monitoring carried out by the laboratory, investigators will have better information to identify and catch these criminals.”
The creation of this team is one of the 11 measures announced last summer by Bonnardel to better support people who are drugged without their knowledge.
The government said anyone who believes they have been the victim of intoxication without their knowledge can go to the emergency room, where a urine kit can be used to detect substances.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews