In my experience, and that with the E-Crimes committee, I would say, “Yes, it is inconsistent.”
Part of the strategy and part of the reason we organized the annual general meeting around cybercrime was to make the chiefs and their deputies aware that this was a gap. The whole theme was real victims, real crimes. The response to an incident of what I will call “cybercrime”, for the lack of a better word, has to be with the same level of attention as given to a break and enter into a house.
Traditionally, we would have a break and enter or somebody just stealing stuff off your clothesline. You would have a Mountie or somebody else show up, and you may have people dust for fingerprints, take pictures, and all kinds of stuff. Nowadays, sadly, in many jurisdictions, because of the lack of awareness of what can or cannot be done, we are encountering, “Thanks, I'm not sure what to do about that. Is that really a crime?” or “Stay off the Internet.”
We're working very hard at the first pillar of our strategy, mainstreaming cyber-investigative capabilities, to drive down to the first responder at least the basic awareness of what impact cybercrime does have.