Police say the misspelling was discovered after Tara was reported missing.
“In general, people who do not have a government-issued identification when interacting with the police are asked to provide the spelling of their name and this is how it is entered into the system when no other documentation is available for clarify, “he added. email reading.
According to the RCMP, this initial name provided by “a collaborating law enforcement agency” then becomes the primary name registered in your criminal record repository.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Alberta’s attorney general told CBC News in an email that the Chief Forensic Bureau could not discuss individual cases because of privacy laws. The spokesman also said that contact with the relatives of a dead person usually happens “in a few hours”.
In a “small number” of cases, however, it may take longer.
“Unfortunately, it is sometimes not always possible to locate family members in a timely manner, especially if the deceased does not have an identity document, there is a family separation, the names have changed or the family lives in other jurisdictions in Canada or internationally “, the email. states.
When a body is not identified, or a relative cannot be found, a local funeral home is found to arrange the burial.
Unidentified bodies are never cremated, the email states, “in case new information emerges about who they might have been and who their closest relatives might have been.”