Public Safety committee  The specialized team, the emergency response team, was in the background. There were armed members in their uniforms, overwatching that incident.

Public Safety committee  You raise an excellent point. There is a project we are looking at. We used to have a special constable program, for example, whereby people from the community could get modified training and go back to their community. We sort of got away from it, because they said it was a tier

Public Safety committee  You raise another excellent point, in the sense that our business intelligence is not strong in that area. We have what's called the police resourcing methodology. It is so labour-intensive to figure out how many police officers we need in a given area. In a place like Vancouve

Public Safety committee  No, you're absolutely right. We need that level of oversight.

Public Safety committee  At the detachment level, as far as I know, they have their annual performance plan, which includes the unit-level quality assurance process. They review each activity to see whether there are risks that need to be addressed, and it's supposed to feed up into the management review

Public Safety committee  I'm going to look into that. I commit to that. I know when I was district officer in three different districts, we had that nailed down. As much as we didn't like it, we had it.

Public Safety committee  First, thank you for your appreciation for our members, because it means a lot. They're working hard each day in the communities they serve. Yes, there's absolutely systemic racism. I can give you a couple of examples that we've found over the years. For example, we have a phy

Public Safety committee  We have some questions, for example, in our aptitude test. You know what? I might refer this to Gail, because that is Gail's specialty in the HR world. A lot of it has been brought out in our recruiting process.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. We work very hard to ensure that we increase the diversity at all levels. We're doing better, but it's not good enough. We need to do it better, and we need to bring people up and develop them from within the employees we already have, because if we don't.... When it

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. We have started a special recruitment process in Nunavut for Inuit people. We've identified people interested in the RCMP and we are working with them. Right now we have seven. It's a pilot project. Seven people were recently identified, in January,

Public Safety committee  I can't speak specifically to whether they've been harassed in their own community, but—and I think somebody mentioned it earlier—it's all about people trusting their police. If they don't trust the police, it doesn't matter if you get people from that community; they're still th

Public Safety committee  In the RCMP when COVID-19 hit, we made some very difficult decisions within our organization, and those have probably contributed along with what's happened recently to the morale. We cancelled all leave. We cancelled all training. People had to quarantine before they could go up

Public Safety committee  I think under our modernization efforts, as I said, no stone will be left unturned, and one of them is a review of contract policing. I do have to say, having now been in this position and having been exposed to police agencies from around the world, that our motto, as much as

Public Safety committee  Actually, it's 99.9%.

Public Safety committee  That's a great question. Thank you for that. They have to be prepared for everything, but your point is well taken. In 2016, we introduced de-escalation and crisis intervention for that very reason. Our calls related to mental health are growing exponentially. We were looking at