The work is ongoing, sir. I have been in the position for five months, and we are working with different policy centres as well as different organizations to ensure these gaps are addressed.
If you recall, on April 25, former Commissioner Beverley Busson stated to this committee that we would have an outreach initiative. One of my main objectives over the last few months has been to ensure that we have an outreach initiative in place for dealing with concerns or complaints that have come forward, perhaps as a result of wrongdoings or even just concerns that people have. This is one of the things that were put in place right after the April 25 committee meeting. Thirty-two people have brought concerns to our office, so I've been very busy working on that.
We also provide ethics education as part of our mandate. We have been working very closely with the RCMP HR learning and development section to ensure that the supervisory development course, the management development course, and the officer development course have an ethical component to them. We have a two-day ethical component.
The supervisory development course was piloted about a year ago, and it is rolling out nationally as we speak. We have a management development course that was piloted in August of this year. As I said before, these are all ongoing projects.
One of the other roles, which is very paramount, is the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act. I now have someone in my office who has taken the lead on this. We are working, as I said before, with different organizations like the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner's office, as well as Treasury Board and the different policy centres within the RCMP, to ensure that our policies reflect the laws and that the members feel they can come forward without fear of reprisal.
These are the things I have been doing in the last five months. There's a lot that is ongoing, as you heard.
We are looking forward to some of the recommendations as a result of Mr. Brown's task force.
We know there is ongoing work to be done. What we need to do now is look at where we are, where we need to be, and then put a strategic plan with initiatives in place to drive and implement those. I don't know exactly what they all are now, because it is ongoing, but these are the things I have done in the last five months since I've taken over.
Thank you.