Status of Women committee  Everything will be documented, that's right. For example, if a member comes forward and says, “I only want him to not say that ever again, or ask me out again”, it's clearly stopped and the complainant doesn't want it to go any further than that, but it is still documented and tr

Status of Women committee  The statistics are never shredded and disappear. If Constable John Doe says something that is inappropriate, it's pointed out to him. If he does not do it, it stops then, the complainant is happy, that will not be on Constable John Doe's record past two years. But for two years i

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  Oh, for sure. We had very few women then, and that number has increased more and more over the years, to what we have currently.

Status of Women committee  The percentage of our workforce currently is 20-point-something per cent female across the board. It's interesting to note that of the thousands of applicants we get each year, only 11% are female, but we've managed to get our numbers up to over 20% female employees. In fact, ou

Status of Women committee  I think it's all of the above. We're certainly trying to make policing more attractive to all people in society, including people who are maybe fourth or fifth generation Canadians who have come from countries where policing's not attractive, and particularly to women. Women are

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson. Good afternoon to all the committee members. It's my pleasure to appear before you today. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with information about how the Ontario Provincial Police is committed to fostering and sustaining an i

Public Safety committee  Pushing the financial bucket higher isn't the answer. It is a big piece of the issue in the first nation communities, because in many of them now they just don't have anything. In the case of the OPP, for example, we're not going to get more money, so we have to change how we d

Public Safety committee  It's a challenge, without a doubt. It ends up in the hands of lawyers at times, and information privacy people—you hit the nail right on the head—and there are times when we're prohibited from giving as much as we would like to give, whether it be to victims, organizations, or wh

Public Safety committee  It's my pleasure.

Public Safety committee  They receive the same support that our uniformed officers would receive. They're covered by WSIB in Ontario. It's the former workers' compensation, for lack of a better term. They receive any counselling they may need from a psychological perspective. If someone goes through some

Public Safety committee  In Ontario, it was left to a committee of the chiefs of police to work with government to sort out who would get how many positions. Ontario got so many positions from what we call PORF. The OPP ended up with 125 of them due to some shortfalls that we already had. They were all p

Public Safety committee  That's correct, yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that would result in an overall reduction in numbers. For example, we just took over the Perth Police Service two weekends ago. Thirteen officers and one civilian came over. The chief chose to retire and move on. We didn't need the chief. As far as the radio room that they h

Public Safety committee  Pretty well. We give more than one bullet to our deputies now, yes.