Public Safety committee  Thank you for the reminder. Shame on me for forgetting that. Absolutely, the broad outside external review, or oversight role, that the Philadelphia model entails is exactly another portion of our way forward. We can become navel-gazers and too introspective in terms of how we h

Public Safety committee  About 10.

Public Safety committee  She told me not to wear it on my head.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, the series of reports on unfounded cases by Ms. Doolittle was very impactful for our organization, as with many policing organizations around the country. In advance of that report being released, we started the review. With regard to the retrospective review of hist

Public Safety committee  I'll take the first stab at it and turn it to my colleague James to clarify or to correct things or to say if I'm wrong. I think it goes back to some of the minister's initial comments, Mr. MacKenzie, around the sharing of information and the nature of the sharing of informatio

Justice committee  Thank you for your question. I'll limit my comments to my organization. I know that other police chiefs are being quite vocal about that. I will definitely say that additional time would be helpful, as I've mentioned. That would permit us to be able to train more officers, give

Justice committee  I don't know what the cumulative attrition is, Mr. Cooper, but I'd say that it's about 20% per year, for a few reasons. One is the training requirements and transfers within the RCMP. I'm not speaking about the entire program, but I can tell you that my officers have a high attri

Justice committee  I would say that additional time would permit us to train more officers, and this will always be our goal. I will also say, though, that with respect to the placement of DREs, particularly from my organization, given our geographic scope, we're trying to ensure that there's as mu

Justice committee  It can vary. There's a 10-day classroom component, and then there's a period where the trainees are tested. It can vary in timing, but the cost is around $8,000 to $10,000 per candidate. Each session that goes through typically has 20 candidates.

Justice committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on the issue of impaired driving, particularly in the context of the legalization and regulation of cannabis in Canada. We all know the carnage that impaired driving causes on our streets and highways. In 2015, of al