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Edited Hansard • Number 046A
Monday, January 31, 2005
Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 11, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 59).
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Question No. 51--
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz:
With regard to the following statement made on the Canada Firearms Centre's website update dated October 30, 2004, “3.4 million CFRO queries have been made by police and other law enforcement officials since December 1, 1998”: (a) how many of these queries were successful in finding the information being requested by the police; (b) how many of these queries were made by police personnel; (c) how many queries were made by other law enforcement personnel and who are they; (d) how many queries were made by non-law enforcement personnel such as Canada Firearms Centre employees; (e) how many queries were made by bureaucrats in other federal departments, in other provincial governments and in other regional and municipal governments; (f) how many queries were made as a result of some automatic search feature on the Canadian Police Information Centre's website; and (g) how long did the average successful query take to return results to the police officer making the request?
Hon. Anne McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, the Canadian firearms registry online, CFRO, service provides police officers access to firearms licence and registration information in the Canadian firearms information system, CFIS. This information, among other things, helps the police to intervene and respond to calls effectively to prevent injury and crime, assists in the investigation of firearm-related crimes and helps police forces to identify and return stolen and lost properly to its rightful owner.
(a) The CFRO system provides information to police on the existence or non-existence of a firearms licence and registration certificate for every query made.
(b) Police agencies and a number of investigative and enforcement branches of other federal and provincial departments have access to CFRO only if they have access to Canadian police information centre, CPIC. CPIC is part of national police service NPS, which is administered by th RCMP. NPS provides essential, front-line support services to the law enforcement community in Canada and abroad.
(c) Police agencies and a number of investigative and enforcement branches of other federal and provincial departments have access to CFRO only if they have access to Canadian police information centre, CPIC. CPIC is part of national police service, NPS, which is administered by the RCMP. NPS provides essential, front-line support services to the enforcement community in Canada and abroad.
(d) Canada Firearms Centre, CAFC personnel do not access CFRO in view of the fact that they have direct access to CFIS. CAFC personnel would only access CFRO for testing or troubleshooting purposes.
(e) Police agencies and a number of investigative and enforcement branches of other federal and provincial departments have access to CFRO only if they have access to Canadian police information centre, CPIC. CPIC is part of national police service, NPS, which is administered by the RCMP. NPS provides essential, front-line support services to the law enforcement community in Canada and abroad.
(f) The system cannot determine the circumstances under which a query is made.
(g) The average CFRO server response time to return a person's query is 1.4 seconds. The response time to process the query is for the CFRO server and does not take into consideration other factors that may slow down response time. Slow downs may be caused by system interfaces with various police departments, technical issues.