Evidence of meeting #88 for Public Safety and National Security in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was community.
A recording is available from Parliament.
10:40 a.m.
NDP
The Vice-Chair NDP Randall Garrison
Thank you. That's the end of your time.
We'll have time for one more partial round of questions.
Mr. Carmichael, welcome to the committee.
June 6th, 2013 / 10:40 a.m.
Conservative
John Carmichael Conservative Don Valley West, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Chief Palson.
This is a two-part question in our limited time.
Could you speak to best practices within your community that are involved on the national scale from your perspective? Can you give us some examples of best practices?
The second part is: how do you share them? You spoke a few minutes ago to our colleague about technology. Do you have some information, services, or practices, around how to share best practices amongst the different members of your association?
10:40 a.m.
Vice-President, First Nations Chiefs of Police Association
As far as best practices are concerned, from our perspective we're quite proud of some of the cadet programs and youth programs that we've established. Again, each community is different so we let them massage it in as we work with it. In one program it's called the cadet program and in another community they prefer to call it a youth corps program. There are different age groups and they do things slightly differently but it's all about providing the young people with some structure. Our service provides the foundation for that program. Then we bring in the other community partners and work together with them. For instance, health and education is a big partner in that because we use the schools.
As far as transmitting best practices is concerned, we've just regenerated our association a little bit. We have more of a part-time executive assistant who is very good with disseminating information and gets whatever needs to get out to the members electronically on a daily basis. We've rejigged that and re-energized that mechanism with our members, keeping in mind we're not a large organization compared to some.
10:45 a.m.
NDP
The Vice-Chair NDP Randall Garrison
Thank you for appearing today, Chief Palson. It's been very useful testimony for the committee.
Thanks to all the committee members.
I know we're all wishing Mr. Sorenson well and looking forward to the time when he'll be able to return.
The committee stands adjourned.