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Public Safety committee Do you mean specifically with regard to training?
January 29th, 2013Committee meeting
Deputy Commissioner Steve Graham
Public Safety committee There is an impact on recruiting inasmuch as the numbers coming in the front door are not as high as they were, but those are driven more by demographics, service demand, and so on. As you know, the emphasis has been on cost reduction with regard to administrative efficiencies
January 29th, 2013Committee 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 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