National Police Services

National Police Services (NPS), a business line of the RCMP, provides services to over 500 Canadian law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. It is renowned for the quality of its expertise and ability to develop and deploy leading edge technologies, while promoting integrated policing. The consistency, high standards, interoperability and availability of NPS information and services ensure that Canada remains one of the safest countries in the world.

National Police Services is a global leader in the development of leading edge scientific and identification methodologies and tools to fight crime. Programs are provided through key areas which are committed to meeting the needs of our clients. The success of all operations and policing efforts is contingent upon the integrity, sustainability and excellence of these programs and services.

Canada Firearms Centre: was created to oversee the administration of the Firearms Act and the Canadian Firearms Program.

Canadian Police College (CPC): provides advanced and specialized learning and training to Canadian and foreign law enforcement agencies.

Priorities:

• develop and implement partnerships with post-secondary institutions
• enhance the Police Executive Development Program
• increase capacity and breadth in the High Tech Crime Learning Institute

Chief Information Officer Sector (CIO): is responsible for the RCMP's Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT) program including all information necessary to carry out the organization's mandate, as well as the systems used to access, communicate, record, share and manage this information.

Priorities:

• implement the new Police Reporting and Occurrence System (PROS)
• provide secure communications channels through the National Radio Program
• develop the National Integrated Interagency Information System (NIII) to support broader information sharing among all law enforcement partners
• implement Real Time Identification (RTID) Project to completely re-engineer criminal record and fingerprint identification processes with turnaround times within days

Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC): comprises nine provincial bureaus which ensure the timely exchange of criminal intelligence among CISC member agencies, in support of the national effort to detect, reduce and prevent organized and other serious crime affecting Canada.

Priorities:

• develop a strategic early warning capacity enabling over-the-horizon forecasts for proactive policy development
• implement a standardized integrated National Collection Strategy
• explore interoperability between the Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System(ACIIS) and the National Criminal Database (NCDB)

Forensic Laboratory Services (FLS): conduct scientific analyses of crime scene evidence, present forensic evidence in court, and research and develop new and advanced forensic methodologies.

Priorities:

• increase DNA processing capacity through the implementation of Biology High-Throughput processing
• provide enhanced ballistics related support through the Canadian Integrated Ballistic Identification Network (CIBIN)
• provide enhanced toxicology services through the Drug Recognition Expert Program

Information and Identification Services (I&IS): develops and implements nationally networked police information systems and technologies in support of investigations and criminal identification. These include the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC), Forensic Identification Services, and the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team (NWEST), which supports front line police agencies in gathering evidence to successfully prosecute persons involved in the illegal movement and criminal use of firearms.

Priorities:

• expand NWEST to include the National Tracing Centre to provide a full range of firearms tracing expertise
• continue to play a lead role in the development of biometric standards
• transform current paper-based fingerprint and criminal records systems to a seamless electronic process

National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC): is responsible for the coordination, collaboration and intelligence-gathering to combat the global online sexual exploitation of children.

Priorities:

• assist law enforcement agencies in the investigation of missing children through the efforts of National Missing Children Services (NMCS)
• implement the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) and the Canadian Image Database for Exploited Children (CIDEC)

Technical Operations (TO): provides specialized technical support services, and researches and develops technical investigative tools. It also provides physical and information technology security services, explosives research and development, and criminal behavioural investigative analysis.

Priorities:

• implement the National Sex Offender Registry
• participate in the Canadian Cryptographic Modernization Program
• provide Violent Crime Linkage Analysis (ViCLAS) to 10 European countries and two American states