Public Safety committee  It's been my experience that those who make the decision to be co-opted into providing for public safety are leaving one life and making a definitive decision to leave that life, and there are huge costs around that. They know better than anybody else the impact that leaving that

Public Safety committee  My response will be not very helpful. We have provisions within our organization on using youth as paid informant sources or agents. The likelihood of their being brought into at a level where they would fall within the witness protection program is rare, unless they are the chil

Public Safety committee  I was really pleasantly surprised in preparing for this meeting and doing some research in that area. These are folks who are already well-trained and seasoned police officers, with two weeks of dedicated training in this discipline, twelve months in the field doing this, and t

Public Safety committee  Our practitioners, those who are engaged full-time.... Those are some of the relationships and some of the memorandums of understanding we have as an organization with other regulatory bodies. As Tom has mentioned, it's kept at a high level and as discrete or secretive as it pos

Public Safety committee  If you look at the authorities that are within the act, there's the authority for emergency protection. That'll be enhanced with this new legislation to broaden that time period. That will usually come during a fast-moving, fast-breaking investigation. There are other investigat

Public Safety committee  Normally in our organization it's a police officer who, over a period of time, has gleaned a wide range of experiences, likely in the federal policing realm where there's an abundance of opportunity for covert and undercover activities. It's an experienced police officer whose tr

Public Safety committee  A secondary residence—I'd prefer to use the term covert accommodation—could be used, whether it's a hotel room that's purchased under a covert identity or whether it's an apartment that's rented under a covert identity. It's a covert place to meet, removed from the police, where

Public Safety committee  If you look hard enough, you'll know who's assigned the responsibility in a source witness protection program. We all have substantive jobs. If you look hard enough, you can mine that out. That being said, it's my experience that many members of the RCMP, if they were asked who

Public Safety committee  I didn't make that comment, but I can provide some clarity around that comment. They are leading a separate life inasmuch as they don't expose their work life to their civilian life. There's no crossover. They're not the local police officer who coaches hockey and everybody kno

Public Safety committee  If you track the member, you can almost find who you're looking for. When I have discussions with those who are employed in this discipline, the first thing to mind is organized crime holding their wife and family at gunpoint and asking them over phone, “Where's Johnny?” It is

Public Safety committee  It's new secure identification. However you would identify yourself now would be securely changed in a comprehensive way. And Tom mentioned it. In this world of Facebook, there's so much out there in the public domain that the job is becoming harder for those in this program to

Public Safety committee  In our national headquarters we have a policy centre function, where they set the policies that are accountable under the legislation. Then out in the field, we have our practitioners in every division in every province, and those practitioners are assisted by actual investigator

Public Safety committee  That would be done by sworn police officers, but they are assisted, whether a provincial or a federal entity, by other departments. For registered motor vehicles, we don't have access to create a driver's licence. That's where the extended disclosure protection comes in. That per

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I can echo Tom's comments. When you look at transnational crime syndicates, you see that the game has been upped, including the protection that our members and all police officers need. That has always existed. I'll just reflect on a quick story. I was talking to my wife about ap