National Action Plan on Open Government Commitment

• Coordination with Business Lines is underway for the fifth annual Discolsure of Police Information Reports.
• Possible avenues are being explored for open data opportunities in addition to the Disclosure of Police Information Reports.
• Contract awarded for a public consultation vendor in order to advance plans to publicly consult Canadians on the RCMP's draft Transparency Policy Fall 2024.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)

• Coordination with Business Lines has begun to launch the work for the fifth annual Disclosure of Police Information Reports.
• Possible avenues are being explored for open data opportunities in addition to the Disclosure of Police Information Reports.
• Final procurement approval pending to aware a contract for a public consultation vendor in order to advance plans to publicly consult Canadians on the RCMP's draft Transparency Policy.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)

• The forth annual Disclosure of Police Information Reports published
• Public Consultation Vendor chosen - license pending Security and Privacy assessments

https://rcmp.ca/en/corporate-information/publications-and-manuals#s14

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)

• 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.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)

• 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.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)

-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

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2023/canadian-fraud-centres-fraud-reporting-datasets-mark-first-rcmp-addition-open-government
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/6a09c998-cddb-4a22-beff-4dca67ab892f
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8e56f67a-4d16-4b53-8e0b-e020f6931f65

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)

• 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.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)

• 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

• The Police Disclosure of Information report can be found here: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/transparenc/police-info-policieres/index-eng.htm

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)

• 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

• The Police Disclosure of Information report can be found here: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/transparenc/police-info-policieres/index-eng.htm

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)

• 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

• The Police Disclosure of Information 2022 report is not yet available publicly
• The previous Police Disclosure of Information report can be found here: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/transparenc/police-info-policieres/index-eng.htm

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)

-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.

No documents are available publicly at this time.

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)