Mr. Chris Lynam at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On January 28th, 2019. See this statement in context.

January 28th, 2019 / 5:10 p.m.

Acting Director General, National Cybercrime Coordination, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

I will start, and then maybe I will hand it over to Chief Superintendent Flynn, who can talk about the current RCMP resources that are devoted towards cybercrime.

The new unit will achieve its initial operating capability in April 2020 and then ramp up over three to four years from now to achieve full operating capability in 2023, and 2023 is when the full public reporting system would also be in place.

This is a new unit, as you can imagine, for the RCMP. We are hiring and training new people to do that and establishing partnerships with police services across Canada as well as within the private sector and non-governmental sectors. As well, as I mentioned, we're implementing a new IM/IT system to underpin its operations.

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