Summary
"At its 2002 Annual General Meeting in Québec City, the CACP Board of Directors
decided to conduct a Police and Technology Conference and Workshop modeled
on the 2000 Cornwall Conference to advance information sharing and
interoperability with technology as a key enabler. This was a strategic
undertaking that recognized the extent to which the criminal justice environment
was pervaded with longstanding information sharing and interoperability issues
and costly initiatives to address them. These include recent provincial and federal
information integration initiatives, CPIC Renewal, the publication of the Criminal
Justice Data Standards by a permanent federal secretariat and the development
of the Canadian Public Safety Information Network model. The urgency felt by
the Association to make progress was underscored by the 911 tragedies, the war
on terrorism and its impact on international relations. The Montreal conference
was, therefore, designed with the following objective:
To explore opportunities for overcoming barriers to effective
interoperability and information sharing amongst police services and
law enforcement agencies"--Background and Purpose.