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 recent years, we have seen a change in what people in shopping malls and in schools are telling us during those events. They are no longer just talking about drug crimes, but also crimes associated with cyberbullying, “sexting”, and so on.
In the internal training that our police officers receive, we focus our involvement on the trauma, in order to prevent victims from being traumatized again.
We have a major presence on social media like Facebook and Twitter. We have reduced our presence on traditional websites so that we can be more present on Twitter and Facebook. I know that a number of police forces in Canada are doing the same.
In a sense, we are very lucky. At provincial level, we have the CyberSCAN unit that conducts investigations that have so-called penal, but not criminal, consequences. The province is responsible for that unit.
That is the situation here in Halifax.