Public Safety committee  The police services through the CACP, major city chiefs, which is the top 40 biggest police agencies in the U.S. and Canada, is communicating all the time about best practices. If there was a development of some repository of best practices that could be easily accessed, there co

Public Safety committee  I'd like to make this point. If there is something that would come out about what the federal government could do, it is this. You've heard from every chief or deputy chief I think who has spoken to you about the vast number of people who are in our prisons and jails who have hea

Public Safety committee  You always have an alternative resolution through the court process. If the kid is under 18 years of age, you have different options, but the real, social issue that's associated with that is that he comes home a hero because he has money in his pocket now. The issue is one that

Public Safety committee  That's a great question. You asked one question that I'd like to answer later on if somebody else asks it. What can the federal government do? I'd like to address that one, but you asked a specific one here. First of all, I'd like to tell you—and I'm sure that Deputy Sloly will

Public Safety committee  I think that was under Frum Himelfarb, wasn't it?

Public Safety committee  No. It wasn't the commissioner. She was in charge of training. Yes, it was a good model, and no, they don't do it that way anymore.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question. First, lawful access has to be addressed by this country. It has to be addressed by Parliament. We're so far behind the other countries. This is about safety. This isn't about the police wanting to troll, to go fishing in somebody's e-mails. I get it

Public Safety committee  The first response was one of, “What are you talking about? We're here to put bad guys in jail.” You have to overcome that. But I can tell you this, we adjusted our recruit training so that our officers go to those social agencies to see first-hand what they're dealing with as it

Public Safety committee  One is that the increase in mentally ill people on the street, unmedicated or self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, creates this sense in communities that the streets aren't safe. These aren't criminals and they may not be performing criminal acts, but the social disorder issue

Public Safety committee  Yes, I'd like to say that there are certain jobs, certain functions, that we bring to the table as part of that partnership that no one else can do. That's why it's vital. Teachers would love to be able to intervene early with some of these kids, but they can't. They don't leave

Public Safety committee  We've implemented these teams in the last five years; most of them in the last four years. Some of these have had some early evaluations on them. We're currently partnering with Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary, because the best measurement is a longitudinal s

Public Safety committee  The ultimate goal is that if you target early enough, you'll have an outcome down the road. Right now we're still dealing with 16,000 domestics a year and a quarter of a million dispatch calls, all those things. But with these focused early intervention strategies that partner wi

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry about that. I won't get into the issues around mental illness, then, and the fact that we know that too many—the numbers are up to 78% of those in the justice system—who are in prisons and jails are suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness and are there because the

Public Safety committee  Thanks for having me.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I apologize for not having that translated. I was just notified late last week about attending here, and I was working on a presentation right up until the last moment on the plane last night. I very much appreciate the opportunity to speak about the economi