Public Accounts committee  I don't have the statistical information to support that, but having instructed police officers at our academy, I can tell you that as a matter of officer safety, using the risk management model, we always teach them to assume that people may have firearms. So it doesn't lessen t

Public Accounts committee  We don't have the information to make that type of claim today.

Public Accounts committee  The decision made at that time, or the obligation under law, was that the people were to re-register those firearms. We don't have anything currently to link that to the amnesty.

Public Accounts committee  The information we have would be reported as an addendum to the RCMP report, because we're still on separate votes for this current fiscal year.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I believe there are two questions. For one the answer would be that as a matter of policy an individual department can decide the scope of when it would like that check to occur. That's one. In the other case, there are many checks, no matter what the incident, that ar

Public Accounts committee  It's a matter of policy of that particular policing agency, so that may be an agreement. A given policing agency will decide that for a call of domestic violence or assault or what have you, as a matter of policy they will instruct their communications operators to make that chec

Public Accounts committee  The decision has been made in that officer's best interest by his management team, for his safety and for the safety of those involved in that particular intervention.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I can only speak to the events as of June of this year, which is when I took the position of director general as a member of the RCMP. I note that already there had been a framework put into place by the previous administration to ensure that there was an improvement i

Public Accounts committee  Yes. I'm a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I've been director general since June.

Public Accounts committee  It's approximately seven million.

Public Accounts committee  We have not undertaken that study, to come up with an estimate of having government people conduct verifications on the seven million people.