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Public Safety committee Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I can't really talk about decisions around the reductions and the amounts and that sort of thing. It's not within the realm of the organization, other than how we respond to it. I would like to comment, however, on some of the pre
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Deputy Commissioner Steve Graham
Public Safety committee I wish.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee I have 37 years.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Yes, I would very much say so.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Yes, I remember models similar to that.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Yes, we do.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee That's a fair assessment.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Yes, and you raise a very good point. If you'll just hear me for a moment, one of the strategies we're using to deal with that—which is why I was speaking about the call management piece—is to put officers in these call centres to call back citizens on some of these complaints an
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Well, as an example, if you consider a municipality as an example.... We'll take the car theft case. What happens in a lot of car theft cases is that sometimes it's organized groups that are stealing cars for a purpose: to strip them, sell parts, or actually send the cars to othe
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Well, I'm sure that in every case it made sense. The issue is, in the collective, were there other options? I think that's the challenge for modern police leaders.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee To be honest, I couldn't tell you what the position is across Canada. There has been a fair amount of growth.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Well, I think the obvious way of doing that would be to reach out to the many police services. If you concentrate on police services of more than 50, I think there are something like 82 or 84 in the country that would meet that test, so that would be a good place to start.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Well, I think the police services would be able to tell the researchers how many of their staff are front-line staff.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Well, Statistics Canada collects a great deal of data relative to policing resources in Canada: costs, criminal measures, crime rates, crime severity indexes, and so on. We may in fact have the data. I guess my point earlier, when I raised the point on data, was that we need to
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
D/Commr Steve Graham
Public Safety committee Do you mean specifically with regard to training?
January 29th, 2013Committee meeting
Deputy Commissioner Steve Graham