Status of Women committee  When the military police or the National Investigation Service receives a complaint or any kind of an allegation, they determine whether the complaint or the information meets the threshold required to trigger a police investigation. That may not be the case.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. As chief of police, I think it is very important for members of the Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence to know how to contact us and how to relay information. That is why many of our contacts are provided on the web. That information

Status of Women committee  It does not, as indicated in my opening statement a few moments ago. I'm independent from the chain of command. We do investigate. It's a process. We investigate regardless of rank or status. All investigations are conducted the same way.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. This was launched in 2018. We called it the sexual assault review program. It was as a result of articles that I believe came out in The Globe and Mail that unfounded sexual assault cases were regularly not coded properly by police services. We looke

Status of Women committee  I'm not an expert in those coding offences, but I'll try to speak broadly. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics has a system of coding offences. Following the unfounded cases reviewed by many police services, the CCJS reviewed how offences are coded. When police report sta

Status of Women committee  There was some general error, I think, from a misunderstanding at the time about what “unfounded” meant. That's what led to some cases being coded “unfounded”, but they were not really unfounded.

Status of Women committee  It's hard for me to get into specifics on the 23, but what it meant, when the external review came in, was that there were aspects, because of the coding, that needed further review. We learned some valuable lessons, and we received some good advice from the external review tea

Status of Women committee  If I understand your question, it's “can someone can refer an allegation or a concern to the military police?” Of course. Anybody can make a complaint or refer an allegation to the military police. At that point, it is assessed. If the matter requires investigation, we will gathe

Status of Women committee  Any allegations or complaints referred to the military police are investigated in a comprehensive and deliberate way. It's a process. In the process of gathering facts and analyzing the evidence, there's a determination at the end of the investigative process, for example, if cha

Status of Women committee  For those complaints referred to us, to the military police, it's assessed by the military police if an allegation warrants a police investigation. A matter could be referred to the military police that would be better investigated or looked at by the chain of command, for exampl

Status of Women committee  When the investigations are comprehensive—it's a process, as I explained before—all investigations and all cases go through a rigorous vetting and quality control process, and quality control is assured that way.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. The complaint is made. It's assigned to an investigator. The investigator goes through his investigative process. There is regular interaction with the different supervisory levels. Then there is a rigorous process within the CFNIS to review every asp

Status of Women committee  The CFNIS is completely independent from the chain of command. Also, as the provost marshal, it was clear in 2011, when the CDS amended the command and control structure of the military police and adjusted the authorities, responsibilities and accountabilities of the provost ma

Status of Women committee  It will range from master corporals to sergeants to warrant officers. You can also have MWOs, and there are also some officers within the structure.

Status of Women committee  There is no specific protocol. It depends on the investigative expertise and the experience in certain investigations, ranging in the whole gamut of investigations that the CFNIS investigates.