Response to Parliamentary Committees and External Audits
Response to Parliamentary Committees
Government Response to the Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration entitled Strengthening the Protection of Women in our Immigration System
The RCMP contributed to the development of the response to this study. Although not directly implicated in any recommendation, the RCMP did highlight the development of a new web-based course on honour-based violence and early and forced marriages which would be made available to all employees.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/CIMM/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=8237399
Government Response to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Report on Bill C-583, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder)
The RCMP responded to a direct recommendation in the report to provide a focus on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) training. In responding to a call for service, it is important for police officers to manage a client's actions and behaviours, regardless of whether the client has FASD, as that is often unknown and impossible for an officer to diagnose. The response highlighted the existing training that Cadets receive during their initial 24-week training on techniques to manage a client's actions and behaviour that includes de-escalation techniques that can be particularly effective in dealing with a person suffering from mental health issues. The response also included a reference to other training options available to RCMP members related to mental health first aid, awareness and crisis intervention.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/JUST/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=8525976
Response to the Auditor General (including to the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development)
Fall 2015 Report of the Office of the Auditor General Chapter 2 – Controlling Exports at the Border
The objective of the audit was to determine whether the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and its key federal partners had the necessary information, practices and controls at the border to enable CBSA to implement its enforcement priorities, prevent the export of goods that contravene Canada's export laws and facilitate legitimate trade. The RCMP is not referenced in the audit, although it is included as one of CBSA's "key federal partners". The audit concluded that CBSA's key federal partners provided information and assistance to support CBSA in implementing its enforcement priorities and preventing the export of goods that contravene Canada's export laws. They further concluded that, overall, CBSA and its key federal partners had the necessary information, practices and controls to enable CBSA to facilitate legitimate export trade. However, CBSA was sometimes slow to take action on, or to release held or detained goods. No recommendations were addressed specifically to the RCMP.
Fall 2015 Report of the Office of the Auditor General Chapter 4 – Information Technology Shared Services
This audit examined whether Shared Services Canada (SSC) has made progress in implementing key elements of its transformation plan while maintaining the operations of existing services. The RCMP was one of seven SSC partners (out of 43) consulted for this audit. The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) concluded that, for the transformation initiatives that they examined, SSC has made limited progress in implementing key elements of its transformation plan and it has challenges in adequately demonstrating that it is able to meet its objectives of maintaining or improving IT services and generating savings. SSC did not establish clear and concrete expectations for how it would deliver services or measure and report on its performance in maintaining original service levels for its 43 partners. SSC rarely established expectations or provided sufficient information to partners to help them comply with government IT security policies, guidelines and standards. In addition, SSC's reporting against its transformation plan requires improvements because internal reports were not clear or accurate. One of the audit's two case studies involved the RCMP, highlighting how a lack of documented service expectations contributed to an outage of emergency radio services: On March 24, 2014, for a 40-minute period, all first responders in Saskatchewan lost radio voice communications that were managed by SSC. The outage of emergency radio services was linked to a lack of documented service expectations between SSC and the RCMP. No recommendations were addressed to the RCMP.
Response to external audits conducted by the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
There were no external audits conducted by the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages related to the RCMP during 2015-16.
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