8. The Minister shall devise and propose to the Government policies relating to the maintenance of public safety, to crime prevention, to the implementation and improvement of methods of crime detection and repression and to the imprisonment and social rehabilitation of inmates.
In addition, the Minister shall exercise, as regards civil protection and fire prevention, the duties and powers conferred on him by the Act respecting the protection of persons and property in the event of disaster (chapter P-38.1) and the Fire Prevention Act (chapter P-23).
1986, c. 86, s. 8; 1988, c. 46, s. 6.