Public Safety committee  In particular, there are certainly a number of countries, such as the U.K. and the U.S., that we should both look at and draw certain lessons from, whether good or bad, based on the experiences we've seen. There's a lot of experimentation happening in the U.K. with new service mo

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I think approximately 10 or 11 first nations police chiefs attended the summit. In developing the invitation list for the summit, we worked very closely with all provincial and territorial governments as well as the three main national policing associations. In that r

Public Safety committee  Yes, there were. Let me take that question from a couple of angles, if I may. The first is recognizing, of course, the jurisdictional responsibilities for policing in Canada. It's not the role of the federal government to be telling provincial and municipal police services how t

Public Safety committee  There was a session on justice efficiencies. In that, they explored some of the requirements that are imposed on policing. In this realm there's a recognition that it's not the policing community leading change; it's the policing community that wants to be engaged in the process

Public Safety committee  Essentially what we're going to be doing over the next six months is figuring out how we can work jointly and where it makes sense to combine our efforts as both governments and associations working with police services. Development of best practices, cataloguing, coordination of

Public Safety committee  We're going to be talking to the various presenters who were at the summit. We will be exploring with them the possibility of putting their material online.

Public Safety committee  The first of the three pillars we have identified as the basis for the development of the forward agenda is efficiencies within police services themselves. Those are actions most directly within the control of the police service itself. The second pillar is new models of commun

Public Safety committee  We are and we aren't. There are two challenges here. One is sharing of best practices. If you have something that works, tell other people about it, and provide that information so others can learn. The other is a deeper challenge, which is evidence-based research. That validate

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning to everyone. It's good to be back here to talk to you about the important topic of the economics of policing. As noted last time we met, the economics of policing is about the evolution and sustainability of policing at a time of fisc

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I think you're referring to the criminal civilian investigative bodies, such as the ones in B.C., Alberta, and Nova Scotia.

Public Safety committee  It would be very useful for this committee to hear directly from them. I can speak a little bit about, for example, the one in B.C., which was just started a month ago. They went through a public process of soliciting individuals who could head that organization. They found som

Public Safety committee  I think that's a theoretical possibility. The criminal investigation could, for some reason, be suspended. The commissioner might seek to continue to have the complaint investigation suspended, but for that to happen we'd need—

Public Safety committee  Yes. I think there'd be a positive obligation on the part of the commissioner to demonstrate very clearly how the complaint investigation would interfere with the criminal investigation. And if the chair of the commission didn't agree with that, I presume they could continue with

Public Safety committee  Yes. If the RCMP commissioner felt very strongly that the complaint investigation should not proceed, and the chair of the commission felt equally strongly that it should proceed, because the investigation had been going on for 25 years, then the chair would proceed with the co

Public Safety committee  That's not the case now. What is happening is that we're attempting to build a more robust base of information on what exactly is happening to these complaints.