Okay, thank you.
Joining me today is my colleague Staff Sergeant Jamie Solesme. She is in our border integrity program and a subject matter expert in that regard.
Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me here today to speak on the RCMP's action plan in response to the “Preventing Illegal Entry into Canada” chapter of the Auditor General's report.
I am the director general of federal and international special services within the RCMP's federal policing program, which includes responsibility for overseeing the RCMP's border law enforcement activities, including the integrated border enforcement teams and marine security enforcement teams.
The RCMP is committed to safe communities and that includes preventing and investigating criminal activity along our borders. We work closely with our partners, including the CBSA, to help ensure that criminals do not enter Canada illegally.
In his report, the Auditor General recommended that the RCMP develop and fully implement a framework to measure and monitor the performance of its border law enforcement activities. The RCMP's management response agreed with this recommendation and committed to implement it.
The RCMP's Management Action Plan will include: A new Program Alignment Architecture (PAA) and Performance Measurement Framework (PMF); a new approach to managing operational information; and a new Service Delivery Model and dictionary.
The RCMP will establish a working group with a mandate to review and propose changes to the existing PAA and PMF, with a full implementation deadline of the 2015-16 fiscal year. The revised PAA and PMF will reflect the federal policing senior management team's resource allocation decisions, which are to be based on program requirements, resource availability, financial constraints, performance metrics, threat assessments, operational priorities, and risks.
The RCMP's federal policing program has re-engineered the way it does business in order to streamline how we set operational priorities. This should improve how we manage our border enforcement activities. The changes will allow federal policing to better account for its enforcement activities.
Federal Policing's new approach to operational information management will allow us to better capture the border enforcement activities we are engaged in and will result in more accurate reporting.
Our new service delivery model will better capture the activities federal policing is engaged in, and coupled with a dictionary that defines these activities, inform our performance reporting.
The RCMP is committed to implementing the Auditor General's recommendation and to providing better reporting of our activities related to border enforcement
I thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'd be more than happy to answer your questions.