Thank you, Minister.
The force responded as the minister said. At the first instance we pulled in the one-year files. We did a review of all of our files. We had all our divisions actually reach into every one of the files that we had marked as “unfounded” to make sure the investigations were done properly; to make sure that when we did have one of the victims come forward, that we treated them with respect. Based on that, we were able to analyze that some of them were just reported as “unfounded”. But where we thought there were gaps—and this is from Ottawa, too, where we had an overview of this—we actually asked that they be looked at again and reopened. We reached back out to the victim to make sure that we actually had done the full investigation—several of those investigations are still ongoing on those files—to make sure that we did treat the individuals with respect.
We're also incorporating some training around that and how we approach our cases and how we approach our victims so that we can understand that it's a traumatic event for anybody. We approach them with the respect and courtesy that they need as they come forward.