Public Safety committee  With respect to CPIC, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify, this doesn't run over the Internet. It runs on a secure national police services network that the RCMP provides.

Public Safety committee  And the date of that particular OAG report, again?

Public Safety committee  A lot has happened with CPIC since then. CPIC has been the subject of a major crown project called CPIC renewal, which has since been completed. It essentially took the system, which has been online since 1972, and gave it a complete replatforming. There are certainly no issues with the availability or the response times of CPIC for police services across the country.

Public Safety committee  What you're describing is occurring. I can't give you specifics, but I personally have been involved in conversations and have been approached and asked about whether small groups of police services in a geographical area could perhaps jointly invest in RTID technology.

Public Safety committee  It would depend on what we're talking about in terms of CPIC. If you're talking about a criminal record, that's an ancillary database that CPIC communicates with, so that would be my colleague's area. If it's something that a police agency has entered onto CPIC—for instance a warrant for arrest, a probation order, an outstanding charge awaiting disposition—those records originate with the agency that contributes that information to the system.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  In the context of the U.S. or...?

Public Safety committee  It would depend on the disclosure provisions of the section of the act. There are viewing periods for various dispositions within the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and once they come into force, then the answer would be no.

Public Safety committee  The U.S. border guards have category one CPIC access, which is the equivalent to what Canadian police have, yes.

Public Safety committee  We established an exchange with the U.S. in the eighties.They have a similar system there. It's called NCIC. We have access to NCIC here; they have access to CPIC there.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that is correct; they do.