National Action Plan on Open Government Commitment

C04.1.5 - Justice

Commitment:
Justice
Milestone:
Collect and share data, including disaggregated data
Indicator:
C04.1.5 - Collecting and releasing high value data related to various policing activities, workforce composition and more
Lead Organization:
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Deadline:
May 2023 and ongoing
Summit for Democracy:
No

Updates

2023-12
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Delays to the publication of the forth annual report on Police Disclosure of Information where experienced due to internal resource shortages and technical issues. Release is scheduled for January 2024.
  • Public consultation vendors were assessed against a variety of considerations such as: Data ownership, authentication of participants, privacy, security, tool capabilities (data analytics, and visualization), and cost to publicly consult the draft RCMP Transparency Policy.
  • Plans in place to consult Canada’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government on the draft RCMP Transparency Policy.
Evidence:

No documents are available publicly at this time.

Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests, urgent priority shifts)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2023-09
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Advancement of the publication of the forth annual report on Police Disclosure of Information with a planned Fall 2023 release.
  • The RCMP's draft Transparency Policy was reviewed by the RCMP Divisional sectors and Open Government Working Group. Comments were received and integrated changes made.
  • Plans for public consultation of the RCMP Transparency Policy, by March 2024, are being explored.
Evidence:

No documents are available publicly at this time.

Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests, urgent priority shifts)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2023-06
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:

-CIO approval received for the release of the RCMP's first open dataset in partnership with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. Planned release for July 2023. (Released on the Open Government Portal July 11, 2023)
- The RCMP's Release Framework for Open Data and Information was released to the Open Government Portal on June 1, 2023

Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests, urgent priority shifts)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2023-03
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Continued partnership discussions to identify and prepare high value data for release
  • Plans to publish the RCMP's first open dataset by May 2023 in partnership with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
  • Plans to publish the RCMP's Release Framework for Open Data and Information are in place for a June 2023 release
  • Initial planning discussions have taken place for the publication of the forth annual report on Police Disclosure of Information with a planned release of October 2023.
Evidence:

No documents are available publicly at this time.

Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests, urgent priority shifts)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2022-12
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Continued partnership discussions to identify and prepare high value data for release
  • Initiated discussions with the Professional Responsibility Sector and the Depot Division took place to identify transparency opportunities
  • Plans to publish the RCMP's Release Framework for Open Data and Information are in place for a 2023 release
  • The publication of the third annual report on Police Disclosure of Information was post on October 12, 2022
Evidence:
Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g., protests)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2022-09
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Continued partnership discussions to identify and prepare high value data for release
  • Advanced opportunity discussions taken place with the National Technology Onboarding Program and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
  • The publication of the third annual report on Police Disclosure of Information was postponed to October 2022
Evidence:
Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2022-06
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:
  • The third annual report on Police Disclosure of Information is in development and on track for a September 2022 publication
    -Ongoing Open Government awareness presentations have taken place internally to the RCMP to assist in the required culture change
Evidence:
Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)

2022-03
Status:
Limited progress
Evidence of progress:

-Internal partnerships with the RCMP Open Government office are being establish to assist in the identification of potential datasets for release.
- An Open Government awareness presentation has taken place in the majority of the divisional Information Management offices across the RCMP in order to identify divisional datasets for release and to ensure a whole of RCMP coordinated Open Government approach.

Evidence:

No documents are available publicly at this time.

Challenges:

Culture:
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the principles of Open Government
- Ensuring there is an understanding of the RCMPs Open Government office's mandate
- Ensuring the understanding of the implication required from the different sectors.
- Environmental factors (E.g. protests)
Technology:
- Multiple systems to consider (siloed systems provide an additional challenge to accessing data)