Public Safety Committee on April 19th, 2007

Evidence of meeting #38 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was person.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Review of the Witness Protection Program
Committee Business

Members speaking

Garry Breitkreuz
Sue Barnes
Serge Ménard
Joe Comartin
Rick Norlock
Maria Mourani
Gord Brown
Dave MacKenzie

Before the committee

Commissioner Raf Souccar  Assistant Commissioner, Federal and International Operations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Superintendent Derek R. Ogden  Director General, Drugs and Organized Crime, Federal and International Operations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
David Bird  Counsel, RCMP Legal Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
William Bartlett  Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice Canada

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz

Go ahead.

12:45 p.m.

NDP

Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON

On the other forces that do the supervision, does the RCMP provide any direction to them, any training, any supervision, to make sure the security of the protectee is ensured to the maximum possible?

12:45 p.m.

C/Supt Derek R. Ogden

No, we don't supervise them, but we do work very closely. We allow them to come on our course if they are interested in coming on our course. We have varying degrees of cooperation.

12:45 p.m.

NDP

Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON

I'll pursue that some more later.

Thank you.

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz

Seeing as there are no more questions, I'd like to thank our witnesses very much for coming here today. It's been a very informative session. We may be seeing you again.

[Proceedings continue in camera]