Public Safety committee  No. I think it's a combination. We definitely don't receive all the available information on, for example, the charges, convictions and so on.

Public Safety committee  We aren't able to do that because we don't have the necessary tools. Not all the CPIC information concerning criminal records is up to date. There's a certain delay.

Public Safety committee  Exactly.

Public Safety committee  No, I would say instead that we apply processes in order to comply with the laws. There is one concerning DNA samples and another that we apply in order to open criminal records and add information to them. These are two different processes. Even though we have a form for our fin

Public Safety committee  Those processes are based on the law, but they have been developed by the RCMP over the years.

Public Safety committee  No, I wouldn't say—

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't say there's a duplication or that it's odd. We do a kind of double check to ensure that what we have really corresponds to the actual situation. The worst thing that can happen is for us to establish a correspondence starting with the DNA data bank and then to consult

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, and I think it's very important also to say that while the RCMP are the stewards of CPIC, and we manage CPIC, we manage it on behalf of the police community. There is shared governance and a shared decision-making process that takes place.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, and we will not enter anything that doesn't meet the highest rigours in quality. As we're moving forward with RTID and the automation for police services, when this is done we'll be able to submit fingerprints from criminal charges electronically. One of the things th

Public Safety committee  I'm coming up to 30.

Public Safety committee  Listen, you're never going to get any police service saying that it couldn't use more. It's a fact that we have to prioritize, and it goes back to Mr. Holland's question right at the very beginning concerning national police services. We realize that there are funding challenges

Public Safety committee  Certainly it will go a long way to resolving some of those issues.

Public Safety committee  It's composed of representation from many police services across the country and also other public safety agencies.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. In fact, when CPIC renewal was completed, starting in the late nineties and going forward, the CPIC advisory committee was actually even bolstered to make sure that there was appropriate representation. What was delivered was very much as a result of the work that the

Public Safety committee  I think that report may have also referred to the automated fingerprint identification system, and as part of RTID that has been replaced by new generation technology, which has made great strides.