Ethics Committee

Mandate:

To promote appropriate ethical behaviour in the Canadian law enforcement community.

Strategic Priorities/Objectives:

1. To promote ethical and professional leadership amongst the CACP membership.
2. To provide or identify learning opportunities for police organizations that enhances ethical decision-making in member organizations.
3. To provide CACP members with information about learning opportunities available through other organizations.
4. To identify and provide information on best practices in ethical decision-making.
5. To provide a link to other entities that support ethical organizational development.
6. To provide advice on ethical issues to the Board of Directors of the CACP.

Significant Accomplishments 2016/2017:

• Continued working with Dr. Stephen Maguire on phase 2 of the Professionalism in Policing survey.  Results are planned for release in late 2017/early 2018.
• Worked with Justice Tulloch regarding recommendations in his report on civilian oversight, specifically regarding the creation of a College/Code of Ethics for police officers including certification/accreditation.
• Studied the UK Experience in professionalism and the development of a national framework for agency-wide code of ethics with a focus on continued professional development; a national code of ethics; continuous learning for officers in the study of ethics, and day-to-day ethics programs.
• Reviewed learning and promoted the York Regional Police and their implementation of an agency-wide ethics model.

Initiatives Planned 2017/2018:

• Complete literature review from the Professionalism in Policing Study
• Provide policy/evidence-based research to Chiefs on topics relating to professionalism (e.g. duty to report policy and core policing organizational values
• Collaborate with the Global Studies 2017 program to identify data that may assist in building a measure of public trust.
• Complete a second survey on Professionalism in Policing in 2018
• Identify evidence-based documents within the research of the CACP Ethics Committee to be forwarded to the CACP Research Foundation.