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Fact Sheet
Mission Championing integrated intelligence-led law enforcement, CISC provides knowledge and understanding of the threat and harm of organized and serious crime through application of the intelligence process. Vision CISC unites Canada’s criminal intelligence community to more effectively and efficiently assess the threat of organized and other serious crime, with the goal of developing strategies to make Canadian communities safer. Values ∙ Innovation |
Overview
CISC was formally created in 1970 to respond to the need for a national criminal intelligence body to combat organized crime. Since that time CISC’s main purpose has been to facilitate the timely production and exchange of criminal information and intelligence within the Canadian law enforcement community.
CISC supports the effort to reduce the harm caused by organized crime through the delivery of strategic intelligence products and services and by providing leadership and expertise to its member agencies.
Today, CISC is comprised of more than 380 member agencies representing the federal, provincial, and municipal levels of law enforcement.
Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System (ACIIS)
ACIIS is the Canadian law enforcement community's national database for criminal information and intelligence on organized and serious crime. ACIIS enables law enforcement agencies at all levels to collaborate in the collection, analysis and exchange of intelligence in support of the national effort to reduce the harm caused by organized crime.
CISC Central Bureau maintains and manages ACIIS on behalf of, and in consultation with, CISC member agencies. The ACIIS Governance Committee is mandated with ensuring ACIIS meets the current and future needs of the law enforcement community.
Governance
CISC is governed by the CISC National Executive Committee. Chaired by the Commissioner of the RCMP, the committee consists of 22 leaders from Canada’s law enforcement community.
Structure
CISC consists of Central Bureau in Ottawa, led by the CISC Director General, and ten Provincial Bureaus. The Director General is also Secretary to the CISC National Executive Committee, and coordinates nation-wide implementation of Committee resolutions.
Clients
In addition to working with senior law enforcement management at a national and provincial level, CISC makes significant contributions to governments’ knowledge of and response to organized and serious crime in Canada. CISC is a member of both the National and Regional Co-ordinating Committees’ National Agenda to Combat Organized Crime, operated by the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers responsible for Justice. As a member, CISC is called upon to advise all levels of government.
Intelligence Collection
CISC coordinates the integrated National Collection Strategy to collect information and intelligence on organized crime groups and emerging trends for the production of integrated provincial and national threat assessments on organized and serious crime in Canada.
Analytical Services
CISC’s criminal intelligence analysts across the country produce integrated provincial and national threat assessments on organized and serious crime in Canada. These and other assessments assist Canada’s law enforcement leaders in making strategic decisions regarding organized crime enforcement priorities and strategies. CISC also produces strategic early warning assessments to enhance current policing practices with a proactive approach to crime control and prevention.
In addition, CISC produces a variety of intelligence reports for government and the public, such as the National Criminal Intelligence Estimate and the Annual Report on Organized Crime in Canada.
Program Resources Services
CISC delivers criminal intelligence courses, which are held throughout the year in several locations across the country. These courses offer training to CISC member agency personnel in various criminal intelligence functions. CISC also participates in joint intelligence training with law enforcement partners. In addition, CISC organizes national workshops on major organized crime issues, including the annual National Collection Plan Workshop and the Integrated Threat Assessment Workshops.
Secondment Program
Through the CISC Secondment Program, personnel from CISC’s member agencies are deployed for 2-5 years in the bureaus. Bringing their expertise and knowledge to CISC, seconded personnel work as intelligence officers, intelligence analysts, or members of the Central Bureau management team. They return with enhanced intelligence skills, knowledge and contacts, as well as a better understanding of the need for, and a renewed commitment to, sharing criminal intelligence and information.
