Audit and Evaluation

Audit of National Criminal Justice Index (NCJI) Project Costs
For the period April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2003
Final Report

Background

National Criminal Justice Index (NCJI) is a component of the development of the Canada Public Safety Information Network (CPSIN), which is a major capital project of the federal government. One of the objectives of this capital project, Canadian Police Information Centre Renewal (CPIC-R), is to replace and augment the capacity of the existing 30 year old CPIC system and to provide a national gateway for all criminal justice partners to access essential crime and offender data. NCJI, as an original portion of CPIC-R, is currently being developed as an information-sharing structure providing linkages between autonomous information systems from different public safety organizations. The NCJI project will operate under the stewardship of the RCMP but will be guided by the participating criminal justice organizations. On direction from Treasury Board, NCJI was removed from CPIC-R this year.

The Treasury Board Secretariat has requested an audit of the NCJI related project costs up to March 31, 2003 and a description of the methodology for allocating costs to the NCJI project. The attribution of costs to NCJI is important since the development of its IT infrastructure is being performed concurrently with the development of other components of CPSIN.

NCJI is an IM/IT project and must report its project costs to Treasury Board in accordance with TBS policies. Under these policies, project costs should include all departmental resources involved in designing, developing and acquiring software; all implementation aspects (e.g. documentation, training, testing and installation), as well as the cost of acquiring information technology hardware.

The Audit of National Criminal Justice Index (NCJI) Project Costs — For the Period April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2003 (PDF) (199 KB) is available in Adobe Acrobat format.

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