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Public Safety committee We have made an internal investment and redeployed a number of resources to enable us to begin to hire more scientists, so that we can go on shift work to increase our ability to deal with the increased demand for data analysis. We are also building a new matrix, so that we can be satisfied to a larger degree that the issues around which analysis gets done first has a more scientific application.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee We were actually in the midst of the Auditor General's report when those observations were made known. We have engaged a number of other labs to come and do peer research of our lab, and there are some other things taking place as well.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee We will be addressing that in further replies to the Auditor General's report.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee I will do that, yes.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee Yes, we do.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee To answer your question, the closing of the units in Quebec were not purely a funding issue. They were an issue around how to get a critical mass of investigators together to do the type of priority work that is done between issues around border integrity and drug enforcement in the province of Quebec and elsewhere.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee We certainly haven't abandoned any measure of the issue around border security. My suggestion is that over the years, with the new focus on integrations, new partnerships, and new ways of doing business with our provincial and municipal partners, we have opportunities to do things in a new way, to achieve the same kinds of efficiencies, if not better than we have in the past, and to give people a level of confidence that we are doing business as far as both organized crime and border integrity is concerned.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee That's a difficult question to answer, generally. We too are concerned about the integrity of the database and the responsibility to make sure that both Canadians and our own police officers are safe as they go about their business in dealing with those kinds of issues. The integrity of the firearms database is a very important issue for us and one that we want to be able to rely on.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee The decision around the amnesty issue was certainly not our issue. Our issue, and our continued issue, is to make sure that the laws in place are enforced and moved forward. What I feel about the amnesty is secondary to the fact that at the end of the day, the amnesty was designed so that we would have some take-up time to put the firearms registry in proper order and move forward with the decision of Parliament.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee I understand that as well, but I will get back to you if I am wrong.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee I'm afraid I don't have that information at my fingertips, but I will supply it to the committee.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee Thank you. I'll be the one to say that there's never enough money to do everything you want to do in policing, and unfortunately it continues to be a growth industry in this country. But for this period of time, we feel that we have the support and funding to address the priorities and the business cases that we put forward.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley A. Busson
Public Safety committee In addition to what the minister said, over the next three years we will be addressing the vacancy pattern, and during that time, of course, seniority increases. We have a very good level of comfort that in the next few years the vacancy pattern will be at zero and the plan to continue with the federal group of experienced police officers will fall into place.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Commissioner Beverley A. Busson
Public Accounts committee Anything that's humanly or legally possible will be done for this presentation.
April 25th, 2007Committee meeting
Commr Beverley Busson