Aboriginal Policing
Description: Information on First Nations Policing Policy.
Document Types: Program administration, workshops, federal/provincial inquiries, task forces relating to Aboriginal Policing, research and development projects both on and off reserve, general enquiries and requests to participate in the First Nations Policing Policy, proposals for policing agreements, follow-up monitoring information of the policing services and holistic, integrated initiatives (in collaboration with other departments/agencies and other governments), aimed at improving the lives of Aboriginal people, crime prevention projects.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 20

Community Corrections
Description: Information on community interventions.
Document Types: Probation; alternative sentencing; restitution; restorative justice; management and treatment of sex offenders.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 21

Conditional Release
Description: Information on all aspects of Conditional Release from institutions.
Document Types: Parole decision-making, parole supervision; statutory release; temporary absences; clemency; factors related to success/risk reduction; procedural safeguards; parole officer's role.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 22

Correctional Administration
Description: Information of the administrative functions and activities of the Correctional Services of Canada.
Document Types: Policy, human resources, visitors, reports and statistics, Boards of Inquiry, financial management, co-operation and liaison.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 23

Corrections Policy
Description: Information on correctional policy, including the procedure for determining how and where offenders serve their sentences of incarceration; and projects relating to corrections which have been funded or proposed for funding by the Department.
Document Types: Exchange agreements; inquiries, cost of correctional services; correctional objectives; aboriginal offenders; female offenders; visible minority corrections; Correctional Legislation, treatment of offenders; special incidents.
Access: Project files are arranged by name of project.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 24

Counter-Terrorism and Contingency Planning -National Security Directorate
Description: Information on the development of contingency and preparedness plans in the event of a terrorist incident, including situation responses, either in a resource or lead capacity; implementation of the national counter-terrorism plan and the Operational Readiness Program; development of counter-terrorism policy initiatives.
Document Types: Contingency plans; counter-terrorism program and counter-terrorism policies. National Security Directorate -Situation Room; exercises.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 057

Counterfeit Examiners
Description: information on requirements for Counterfeit Examiners under subsection 461(2) of the Criminal Code.
Document Types: Requirements; designation revocation.
Access: Files arranged by Police Department.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 080

Crime
Description: Information on the nature and study of various types of Crime; and on projects designed to develop policies, procedures and/or national programs for police, the private sector, and communities directed at avoiding the commission of a criminal act or offence.
Document Types: The costs of Crime and the criminal; unemployment and Crime; homicide; sexual offenses; computers and Crime; white-collar Crime; impaired driving; terrorism; psychoactive substance abuse; Police Training Manual; anti-vandalism; Crime Prevention Kit; transnational Crime and organized Crime.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 081

Criminal Justice
Description: Information on the Criminal Justice system, including projects relating to Criminal Justice which have been funded or proposed for funding by the Department.
Document Types: Objectives of the Criminal Justice system; myths on crime and Criminal Justice; sentencing; missing children; various international criminal offenses; capital punishment; public attitudes.
Access: Project files are arranged by name of project.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 025

Emergency Management Operations
Description: Information on Government of Canada operational emergency response capabilities and programs including information pertaining to the National Emergency Response System, the Government Operations Centre and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre.
Document Types: National emergency response plans; consequence management and cyber security exercises; records related to operational activities and associated decision support materials; event planning and post-event analysis; incident warning and analysis products; cyber security operations and outreach activities; critical infrastructure interdependencies and vulnerability assessment methods, tools and studies.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 050

Federal/Provincial/Territorial Emergency Management Relations
Description: Information on the coordination of federal/provincial/territorial emergency management meetings and issues, and on Public Safety (EMNS) regional offices' roles and responsibilities.
Document Types: Federal/provincial/territorial meetings relating to emergency management issues; Public Safety's regional offices coordination; regional offices' roles and responsibilities in emergency management.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 051

Fingerprint Examiner
Description: Information on requirements for designation and revocation of Fingerprint Examiners under subsection 667(5) of the Criminal Code.
Document Types: Requirements, designation, revocation.
Access: Files are arranged by province.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 082

Institutional Corrections
Description: Information on incarceration and on topics arising as a result of a sentence to a prison term, including information on specific programs, research and statistics.
Document Types: Long-term incarceration; classification and typologies; inmates' rights; health care; correctional investigator, dissociation; grievance procedures; riots; hostage taking; suicides; independent chairpersons; life skills; trade and professional education; treatment program; living units; remission, rehabilitation.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 026

Intergovernmental Affairs, Citizen Engagement and Branch Planning
Description: The Directorate provides advice on federal, provincial, territorial priorities for the Department; is responsible for citizen engagement and supports the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security; and supports all branch planning activities.
Document Types: Federal/provincial/territorial, analysis, citizen engagement, branch planning.
Record Number: PSEPC SPB 111

International Directorate
Description: This Directorate coordinates the development and delivery of the Department's international framework and related priorities. The directorate is also responsible for managing the government-wide Security agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
Document Types: Information on border, public safety, security matters, international affairs.
Record Number: PSEPC SPB 112

International Transfer of Offenders
Description: Information on the issues regarding the International Transfer of Offenders, where the person has been convicted and sentenced in a foreign state and requests to serve the remaining portion of the sentence in his/her home country.
Document Types: Policy; treaties; objectives of international transfers; requirements; restrictions.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 27

Law Enforcement Border Strategies
Description: Information on issues related to federal policing, law enforcement and border management.
Document Types: Policing and law enforcement; comprehensive national and portfolio strategies on drugs and organized crime; DNA data bank; National Police Services; witness protection; federal (military) assistance to the RCMP and/or provincial police; child sexual exploitation; prostitution; child labour exploitation; child abduction and missing children; seniors; youth justice regime; children and youth at risk; international trafficking of persons; community policing; victims; fetal alcohol syndrome/effect; youth gangs; police associations; Police Week; Police Memorial; Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties; law enforcement issues such as standards, norms, training; designation under the law enforcement justification provisions; money laundering; marijuana grow operations; anti-smuggling initiative, e.g. tobacco smuggling; integrated proceeds of crime; related Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) issues and information on FPT fora, e.g. the FPT ADM Committee on Policing Issues; commercial and economic crime; high tech crime and cryptography; child exploitation on the Internet; mass marketing fraud; identity theft; capital market fraud; corruption; border initiatives; international law enforcement cooperation; law enforcement and security components for initiatives led by other departments such as immigration and transportation security; Canada-U.S. Cross Border Crime Forum; National Coordinating Committee on Organized Crime (NCC); organized crime policy and coordination; criminal intelligence; high tech crime/internet crime; family violence; violence against women; biology casework analysis agreements; transnational organized crime, international treaties, conventions and agreements and international drug issues.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 086

National Crime Prevention Centre
Description: Information on cost-effective projects funded through grants and contributions programs to the communities across Canada.
Document Types: Priorities groups - children, youth and families at-risk; Aboriginal people and their communities; high crime neighbourhoods; youth gangs; and high risk offenders.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 29

Part VI, Criminal Code - Invasion of Privacy
Description: Information on the policy, procedures and administrative aspects of the use of electronic surveillance for the interception of private communications pursuant to paragraph 188(1)(a) and subsection 186(5) of the Criminal Code. This information is used to assist the Minister in fulfilling his responsibilities under Part VI of the Criminal Code, the provision of operational guidelines to designated agents and peace officers. This program record also contains information from police operational reports from agents designated under paragraph 185(1)(a), which is required to assist the Minister in fulfilling his responsibilities, as defined in section 195 of the Criminal Code, regarding the submission to Parliament of an annual report on the use of electronic surveillance.
Document Types: Requirements, designation, revocation, annual report.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 084

Policing Policy
Description: Information on issues related to the RCMP's federal policing role; RCMP policing policies and functions; RCMP accountability to the executive and to the public including oversight issues relating to the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP and the RCMP External Review Committee; the resources, role, function, services, corporate issues, management, administration and operations of the RCMP including contract policing agreements, personnel policies and practices; international police peacekeeping; Part VI of the Criminal Code; the Canada Firearms Centre; and projects relating to policing which have been funded or proposed for funding by the Department.
Document Types: Policing and policy issues; National Police Services; international witness protection; RCMP protective policing services; civilian oversight/police accountability; Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP (CPC); RCMP External Review Committee (ERC); RCMP labour management; Canadian international police peacekeeping activities; designations for electronic surveillance, counterfeit examiners, fingerprint examiners, and law enforcement justification designations under subsection 25.1(3) of the Criminal Code, Annual Report to Parliament on electronic surveillance designations and associated guidelines, Annual Report to Parliament on the RCMP's use of Law Enforcement Justification Provisions; Ministerial Directives; RCMP Contract Policing arrangements; RCMP Pension Advisory Committee for RCMP Superannuation Act; firearms; Security Cost Framework negotiations and reimbursements. Project files are arranged by name of project.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 085

Portfolio Relations
Description: Portfolio Relations (PR) is responsible for Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs, Access to Information and Privacy, Ministerial Correspondence, the preparation of speeches for the Minister and Senior Officials. PR is also responsible for the coordination of briefing material for ministerial meetings and events, and ministerial requests for information.
Document Types: Parliamentary returns; ministerial correspondence, speeches, access to information requests, privacy requests, briefing material.
Record Number: PSEPC PRPA 110

Public Safety Interoperability
Description: Information on issues relating to information sharing and interoperability between agencies responsible for criminal justice and public safety, and the interoperability of criminal justice information systems.
Document Types: CPSIN-Standards - Canada Public Safety Information Network, Data Standards, Privacy, Performance Measurement Framework, Interoperability, Information Architecture, CPSIN Security Policy, Biometrics, Radio Communications Interoperability and FPT Joint Statement.
Record Number: PSEPC PLEI 083

Science and Technology Policy
Description: Information on the identification of appropriate science and technology solutions that address risks, challenges or create opportunities to enhance Canada's national security, national critical infrastructure, emergency management, or public safety; and for assessing these developments to define and recommend policies and other measures to enhance public safety.
Document Types: Policy development and planning liaison, research, statistics, environmental scanning, higher education and science and technology portfolio management and coordination.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 052

Security and Intelligence Committees
Description: Information on the operations of Security and Intelligence Committees, as well as the provision of administrative and policy support to these committees.
Document Types: Security Advisory Committee; Intelligence Advisory Committee; Inter-departmental Committee on Security and Intelligence; Cabinet Committee on Security and Intelligence; subcommittees and study groups on the administrative security policy and national internal security policy responsibilities of the above committees.
Access: Files are arranged by committee, subcommittee or study group title, and by subject. All files are located in Ottawa.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 053

Security General
Description: Information on departmental security and security programs.
Document Types: training; information technology security; communications security; agreements; evaluations; incidents; clearances; physical security and security technology.
Record Number: PSEPC CM 005

Security Information
Description: The analysis and dissemination of information on potential threats to the internal security of the Government of Canada.
Document Types: Internal security -policy; espionage, terrorism; civil disorder; analysis of security and intelligence information; periodic status reports.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 054

Security Intelligence Transition Group
Description: Information on the operations of the Security Intelligence Transition Group. This group was created in August 1981 to plan for the creation of a security intelligence agency separate from the RCMP and disbanded in July 1984 with the creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
Document Types: McDonald Commission recommendations; advice on pending legislation; the organizational, administrative, and personnel structure of the new security intelligence agency; and public opinion and enquiries. All files are located in Ottawa.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 055

Security Policy
Description: Information on the national security policies of the Government of Canada.
Document Types: Security issues, statements and legislation; administrative Security Policy; and national Security Policy. All files are located in Ottawa.
Record Number: PSEPC EMNS 056

Special Offender Populations
Description: Information on sub-groups of offenders identifiable on the basis of age, gender, race, offence or special need.
Document Types: Policy; females; aboriginal peoples; sex offenders; drug offenders.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP 28

Strategic Policy, Planning and Research
Description: The Directorate is responsible for Strategic Policy, Planning and Research; and the development of a strategic policy and planning framework; all corporate planning documents and departmental research priorities.
Document Types: strategic policy development, planning, research.
Record Number: PSEPC CSP PRPA 113