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General Provisions
Article 1 — Name
The name of the intelligence organization shall be: ‘Criminal Intelligence Service Canada’, herein referred to as CISC.
Article 2 — Mandate
The mandate of CISC is to be a strategically-focused organization which ensures the timely production and exchange of criminal information and intelligence among CISC member agencies and to be a national ‘centre of excellence’, in support of the national effort to detect, reduce, disrupt and prevent organized and serious crime affecting Canada.
Article 3 — Definitions
1. Director General, CISC
- is the chief executive officer, appointed by the National Executive Committee, as outlined in Article 6.
2. Deputy Director General
- is a member of the Central Bureau management, appointed by the Director General, CISC.
3. Director, Provincial Bureau
- is the senior executive officer responsible for the operation of a Provincial Bureau as outlined in Article 8.
4. Information
- is unprocessed data of every description which may be used in the production of intelligence.
5. Intelligence
- is the end product of information that has been subjected to the intelligence process and reveals the scope and dimension of organized or serious crime, and its direct or indirect participants.
6. Meaningful participation
- means CISC members, in support of the Mandate of CISC:
a. attend their respective National and/or Provincial Executive Committee meetings;
b. attend Supervisory Committee meetings;
c. submit detailed and timely intelligence reports;
d. participate in their Provincial Bureau training functions;
e. contribute to CISC’s national criminal intelligence database;
f. participate in the collection and timely sharing of criminal information and intelligence.
7. National Executive Committee
- is comprised of the senior executive of CISC member agencies as outlined in Article 15.1.
8. Organized crime or criminal organization
- as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada, means a group, however organized, that:
a. is composed of three or more persons in or outside Canada, and
b. has as one of its main purposes or main activities the facilitation or commission of one or more serious offences that, if committed, would likely result in the direct or indirect receipt of a material benefit, including a financial benefit, by the group or by any of the persons who constitute the group.
c. It does not include a group of persons that forms randomly for the immediate commission of a single offence.
9. Provincial Executive Committee
- is the senior executive at the provincial level as outlined in Article 9.
10. Quorum
- is fifty percent (50%) of the total membership of the National Executive Committee plus one (1) member.
11. Serious offence or crime
- as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada, means an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament for which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for five (5) years or more, or another offence that is prescribed by regulation.
12. Supervisory Committee
- is comprised of the Provincial Bureau Directors and the Central Bureau Deputy Directors General, and is chaired by the Director General, CISC, as outlined in Article 23.
