Justice committee  It is a little hard to quantify. Mr. Pardy was not wrong when he said that, in a way, preventing crime is 100% of our work. I think it was you who said that prevention is of great value in criminal matters. It is just like a disease, when you can prevent it, you do. In every poli

Justice committee  Mr. Jacob, like other police forces in Canada, we have liaison officers in schools and community resource officers carrying out awareness campaigns against cyberbullying. As my colleague from the Ontario provincial police pointed out, last week was national police week. In rece

Justice committee  Thank you. I wanted to add to what the assistant commissioner mentioned about the geographic boundaries. We have to get out of the mindset that this can occur in the same town, in the same province, for that matter. As I spoke before about the whole notion of digital natives as

Justice committee  Well, you can well appreciate that presently the file is before the courts, number one, and number two that there will be a review that has been mandated by the province. I can't talk in specific terms with regards to that file, but I will try to answer your question by mentionin

Justice committee  It would to a certain measure, but I think what it would allow us to do is that once we identified specific information and were able to determine where that information was housed, for example, as indicated before, we'd have that 21-day period if it's a local provider to be able

Justice committee  It could be, but once again, if we don't have that information, especially with the thresholds being reasonable grounds to suspect, then we may never have that information. I think as legislators you have to make that decision as to what is the best threshold and timing in there.

Justice committee  Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Wilks, through the chair. The question for us here is one of time. It's about being able to ensure that, once we have identified where or what that information is, we can be able to properly obtain that information before it gets deleted, first, and

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair, and ladies and gentlemen of the committee. My name is Jean-Michel Blais and I am the Chief of Police, Halifax Regional Police Service. Unfortunately, I was not able to join you today in Ottawa, because my schedule is quite full and

Public Safety committee  Certainly, there is no problem. I have my notes, actually, which are a bit more complete than what I said. I'll have them sent to you.

Public Safety committee  I have the same comments. We're predominantly urban as opposed to rural.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Norlock. Unfortunately, I don't have the article with me here, but in The Globe and Mail in 2011, there was an article talking about the life of a young man who had gone from an abusive home through various stages of prevention care. He ended killing som

Public Safety committee  With regard to the national repository, we have the Canadian Police College. That should be used perhaps a bit more, even though it is used considerably. There's a lot of exchange going on with regard to information not only intra-nationally but internationally as well.

Public Safety committee  Zero per cent. We found that the majority of our guns are locally resourced and sourced, and are weapons that have been stolen from legitimate gun owners. With the elimination of the long-gun registry it has hampered some of our work.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Actually I would have preferred if Chief Chu spoke first because I know he has been looking at some of those things. Nonetheless, we've been caught up with the whole notion of technology and RMS, the records management system. We use a system called Versa

Public Safety committee  Great. Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. I want to thank you for this opportunity to present a few highlights on the current state of policing in Canada, particularly in the Halifax Regional Municipality. I will be presenting in En