Message from the Chair, CISC Executive Committee

At the CISC Executive Committee meeting in August 2002, I made a comment that we are truly at a crossroads for the future of CISC. The Strategic Plan 2003 - 2007 that is presented here provides us with direction to move forward. It shows vision and leadership. It provides a framework that we can all work towards.
The four pillars of the Strategic Plan are key building blocks in ensuring a truly national strategic criminal intelligence capability in Canada. They are the foundation for developing in-depth and timely threat assessments of the capabilities, intentions and limitations of individual criminals and criminal organizations. This approach focusses our efforts on the key vulnerabilities of criminals, so law enforcement can penetrate and neutralize organized crime and other serious threats at the earliest stages possible.
This Strategic Plan assists Canada's law-enforcement community in making strategic, intelligence-led decisions. It also builds on the solid network we already have established. With this Strategic Plan, CISC leads the way in combating organized and other serious crime in Canada, using a truly integrated and pro-active approach to producing and sharing criminal intelligence.
I encourage all CISC member agencies to support this Strategic Plan. Your contribution is essential to help us move this plan from a conceptual level to reality.
Giuliano Zaccardelli
Chair, CISC Executive Committee