Public Safety committee  Voluntary, but I think—

Public Safety committee  Exactly. You'd develop national standards, and the province would declare them as provincial standards, which would be great. Then municipalities would declare them as municipal standards, and that would be good. Really, they're benchmarks rather than standards. It's really sayin

Public Safety committee  That's exactly what the Police Sector Council does, and has been doing for eight years.

Public Safety committee  Yes. Unfortunately, these things happen in program areas.

Public Safety committee  I think it needs to be recreated, absolutely. We've put in place a shell organization with a shell board of directors, again from all the stakeholder groups, and we're looking for funding; we're looking for opportunities to continue the work.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I think the member has hit on exactly the issue. The problem is that the police are required to do a broad continuum of roles, everything from directing traffic in a construction zone—at $93,000 a year—to dealing with cybercrime, with multinational, multi-fraud complex

Public Safety committee  We're clearly talking about modern workforce management practices. There isn't a sector in Canada that doesn't employ competency-based management. This is not something new in policing; it's just not fully implemented in policing across the country. Chiefs of police generally ar

Public Safety committee  The simple answer is yes. The interesting point of the study we did with Interpol was to understand the fact that cybercrime is pan-national and very seldom can be dealt with in a national legislative environment. You're dealing with criminality that works globally, yet every sin

Public Safety committee  Even within Canada, province by province, we are looking at it differently. This really falls to a lack of leadership. If I were pointing fingers, which I never do.... We have to understand what the framework that Public Safety is creating for policing in the country. What is the

Public Safety committee  Yes, of course, we did. I was just trying to focus on one area we had done some research on to show there are some real efficiencies around management as well. If I can just pick up on the point before I answer the question, in the U.K. they have a system where the police call u

Public Safety committee  I fully agree. I would add one point of comparison to push it a little further. We did a survey of 190 countries through Interpol last year and asked them what they were doing about cybercrime. Every one of those countries was separately and uniquely setting up cyber-centres, c

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to pick up on a few points that Rod touched on, and in fact reinforce them in my presentation. My thanks for the invitation. More importantly, I thank all of you for the effort you're putting into looking at a new model of policing and the evolut

Human Resources committee  Well, a simple answer would be that clearly policing is seen much more as a fully able-bodied-person job, but often police people get hurt or injured on the job and can take on the secondary functions, more administrative functions, in policing. It's a whole lot more difficult t

Human Resources committee  I'm executive director of the Police Sector Council. The council is involved in the long-term sustainability of policing. I thought I'd take a little bit of time today to highlight three critical challenges or issues in policing. It would be very hard for me to hit the whole top