Doug Shipley at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On May 30th, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 30th, 2023 / 5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Doug Shipley Conservative Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, ON

Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

I'll open up with my first question.

Of the complaints that the CRCC receives, 95% to 98% are currently turned over to the RCMP for investigation. According to the NPF, the process of investigating CRCC complaints takes approximately 60,000 hours a year away from RCMP core duties, and they take issue with the fact that the police are essentially investigating themselves.

Can you tell this committee whether the new PCRC will be truly independent and what actions you will take to stop reducing the number of frontline resources available to the RCMP?

I don't know who exactly wants to take that.

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