Public Safety committee  The actual work a police officer is engaged in over the years hasn't necessarily changed to any great extent. Some of the tools and what we're doing have changed. The way I describe it in my own organization is, the raw material for policing is still the same: it's information. T

Public Safety committee  We are missing some of these crimes because they are not being captured consistently across Canada.

Public Safety committee  No. There are set grids that are established through collective agreements and they are consistent.

Public Safety committee  Yes. It's really the cadence of moving forward and being progressive. What Dale McFee did in Prince Albert was leading-edge, and it was necessary for Prince Albert, given what they were dealing with on the ground there. We build on that, and in the true spirit of community polic

Public Safety committee  We have it with respect to our family violence project, and now we are incorporating some of the recidivist offender profiles that have been developed as a result of some technology through programming, what we've learned from Saskatchewan, and at the same time building on what w

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  I think what's happening is that we're all doing parts of it. One of the initiatives we're undertaking in our organization is to try to put some framework to it, try to create almost a visioning model or document, a communication tool. Again, it speaks to the capacity building th

Public Safety committee  I was hoping the professor would answer first. Do you want to go, Chris, or do you want me to?

Public Safety committee  I think your question is very poignant because right now this is what police leaders struggle with: How many police officers do I need, and do I have too many or too few? Again, because I'm proud of the work we've done, and not because I'm trying to suggest we're further ahead t

Public Safety committee  Sure. Where we would go to a social disorder call for service is a situation in which somebody living with mental illness is walking down the street in the middle of summer, shirt off, waving their arms, and scaring people in the downtown area. No crime has been committed. We'r

Public Safety committee  Yes. What we have right now in some jurisdictions.... Using New Brunswick as an example, there is a municipality in New Brunswick where they've created a bylaw to avoid having, perhaps, young people who are in university ending up with a criminal record because they ended up figh

Public Safety committee  It's a criminal offence. Or, for example, in British Columbia provincial law enables an officer to suspend a driver's licence at the side of the road after a person blows “fail” on a roadside device. Instead of charging them with a criminal offence of impaired driving, they're

Public Safety committee  Right now we're exploring the manner in which we collect some of the data. As an example, whenever an incident in a community occurs and there are elements of crime to it, it gets coded. It's a code. It's called a UCR, uniform crime reporting. If there is more than one criminal

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, the translation wasn't working, but I caught some of what you were asking.

Public Safety committee  I would agree with Professor Murphy. I understand and agree with his vision of where and how that research could get developed and the connection that needs to occur right across Canada to ensure that all police leaders have access to it. One of the areas that I think is very i