Public Accounts committee  Yes, we obviously have multiple planning sections depending on what we're dealing with, but when we go into equipment, there's a robust plan as to what's next in line for equipment. Then we do a lot of testing of that equipment. We have to do a lot of consultation with our contra

Public Accounts committee  We could not deploy 100% to every single member. With 20,000 members, we could not deploy 20,000 hard body armour nor the carbines at 100% of the need because of the amount that it took. We had to do it in segments. Maybe I could get Mr. Watters to explain that process because,

Public Accounts committee  An active shooter situation can happen anywhere. To say that we knew what was going to happen in Moncton.... We didn't know that was going to happen in Moncton. We tried to ensure that when we did the deployment we could get as much of that type of equipment out to as many people

Public Accounts committee  With the carbine, it's a single source. It wouldn't have changed. Once we determined which carbine we were purchasing, it wouldn't change anything, because we could only buy it from one source. We could only afford so many at a time, so we could only purchase as much as we could

Public Accounts committee  Yes, absolutely. Again, some of it was based on the geography. I'll use Manitoba as an example. There are 23 detachments that are all very far north, and seven of them are fly-in only. It takes a little longer for them to have backup in a big incident because we don't drive to th

Public Accounts committee  First, everything that gets reviewed always gets improved. If we were to say that something was perfect, then I think our organization would be naive. Even today, if we were to re-review.... Given the evolution of policing and how the dynamics change so often, we always have to b

Public Accounts committee  Our eventual goal is to ensure that they are issued to—assigned, we say—each member. That's our goal. Right now, we ensure that they're in the vehicles so that they have access to that equipment when they go out on calls. Unfortunately, we have a lot of attrition, too, so it sort

Public Accounts committee  We have three long guns: shot guns, rifles and carbines. We're actually doing a study on whether we need all three. Each one serves a different purpose, depending on the type of policing and the rural environments. Do we have enough of each? We are studying that, but for the time

Public Accounts committee  They would report to deputy commissioner Brian Brennan as part of community and indigenous policing. Brian is in charge of the critical incident program, as well as reviewing any type of equipment, looking at new equipment and testing. For example, we're in the midst of evergreen

Public Accounts committee  I haven't received any reports of missing carbines. A lot of the side arms, for example, will go into our armour shop and they'll be accounted for there. They may not be accounted for outside of that environment. I haven't received any reports of a—

Public Accounts committee  It's yearly.

Public Accounts committee  Our goal is 100%.

Public Accounts committee  I don't have those numbers with me. For us to actually get to 100% is almost impossible, only because, with transfers, members might be certified in the month of September, because that's when their area does the recertification. In April, they might get transferred and miss wh

Public Accounts committee  Well, we work on our robust training plan to ensure that certifications are done within their year. The same goes for our side-arm training. Our initial commitment, when we first got the carbines, was to ensure that we had, I think, 65% of the membership trained on carbine. We've

Public Accounts committee  First off, safety is of the highest priority for the leadership of the RCMP. We've done many initiatives in the tactical training area with immediate action rapid deployment training. Every member has to recertify on all their intervention options, and we have added to that train