Note
"DRDC CSS TM 2011-17."
"October 2011."
"This work was done for the Conducted Energy Weapons Strategic Initiative (CEWSI), project number 32bj, a project funded by the Canadian Police Research Centre (CPRC) and managed by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) under the Centre for Security Science (CSS)."
Résumé
One of the objectives of the Conducted Energy Weapons Strategic Initiative (CEWSI) project is to develop a Canadian approval process that could be applied to emerging less lethal technologies. A contract was let with Alcea Technologies to survey a variety of approval processes with the objective of identifying common elements that could be applied to the Canadian less lethal weapons approval process. The contractor identified the stakeholders, roles and responsibilities, governance framework, high level processes and supporting documentation for the Less Lethal Weapons Approval Process used by the United States and the United Kingdom as well as for the following Canadian approval processes: Medical Devices, Telecommunications Devices, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, CSA approval and the use of the Laser-Dazzler by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. This report presents the findings of the contractor’s work, identifies the common elements among the processes and recommends building blocks that should be included in a Canadian less lethal weapons approval process.