Mandate

Provide a national leadership role to the Canadian law enforcement community on criminal activity involving technology.

Objectives

1. Help law enforcement agencies across Canada keep up with the ever-changing fast pace of technology and evolving cybercrime threats.
2. Identify key digital policing and cybercrime gaps and challenges.
3. Leverage diverse and well-informed perspectives to recognize and examine current and emerging trends and developments, to connect these perspectives to current and potential research and parallel initiatives, with a view to recognizing opportunities and enabling promising practices in social policy, industry priorities, and technologies that will provide greater safety and security in the cyber world.
4. Enhance front-line officer training to prevent and respond to cybercrime as well as to reduce victimization from cybercrime.

Co-chairs

Chief Scott Tod and Mr. Mark Penney

Sub-committees

• Digital Forensics
• E-Crime Cyber Council
• Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance