A sentencing judge must articulate findings of fact and reasons in the reasons for sentence, not in a subsequent s 11 report to the Court of Criminal Appeal. The principle requiring deterrent sentences for assaults on police officers applies equally to off-duty officers exercising policing powers. Periodic detention has a strong element of built-in leniency and is inappropriate for serious offences of violence. On Crown appeals, the Court may decline to intervene despite identified errors where the respondent has commenced rehabilitation, particularly by way of periodic detention, and there has been significant delay.
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