Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The RCMP today is an organization of some 31,000 employees. About two-thirds of those employees are police officers--in round figures, 20,000. About one-third, or 10,000, are civilians, either civilian members of the RCMP or public servants. We provide services across the country from about 800 locations, about 750 detachments.
We do international policing, federal policing, and provincial and territorial policing, and we also provide services to all police forces in Canada, services such as, for example, CPIC, the criminal records database, the DNA database, the fingerprint database. We run a college here in Ottawa for advanced training and development.
We are a very large, very modern police force, really in every jurisdiction and in some 26 countries around the world in consulates, embassies, and high commissions, and we also participate in international peacekeeping efforts in places today, including Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Afghanistan, and Haiti.