Public mischief essentially covers circumstances of false reporting of crime to the police.
(d) reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.(c) reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed or.(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself.(a) making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence.
Section 140(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada reads:ġ40 (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by Where mischief involves willful damage to property, public mischief damages public institutions and has the potential to seriously damage innocent Canadians. Public mischief is perhaps the most serious nuisance offence recognized in Canadian criminal law.
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