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About CISC
As the voice of the Canadian criminal intelligence community, the fundamental purpose of CISC is to facilitate the timely and effective production and exchange of criminal intelligence, while providing leadership and expertise to CISC member agencies in their efforts to detect, reduce and prevent organized and serious crime affecting Canada.
CISC consists of a Central Bureau in Ottawa that liaises with and collects information and intelligence from ten provincial bureaus that serve all of Canada’s provinces and territories. The provincial bureaus operate independently while maintaining common standards in the delivery of their products and services.
Membership
CISC membership includes more than 380 law enforcement agencies across the country. These agencies supply criminal intelligence to their respective provincial bureaus for further analysis and dissemination. The provincial bureaus in turn provide their findings to Central Bureau for analysis at a national level and the creation of strategic criminal intelligence products and services.
ACIIS
CISC’s member agencies collaborate in the exchange of criminal intelligence by contributing to the Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System (ACIIS), an on-line database. ACIIS is the Canadian law enforcement community’s national repository for criminal intelligence and information on organized and serious crime and is only accessible to the law enforcement community. Central Bureau is the custodian of ACIIS, which it manages on behalf of, and in consultation with, all CISC member agencies.
Governance
CISC is governed by the CISC National Executive Committee, which is comprised of 23 leaders from Canada’s law enforcement community and chaired by the Commissioner of the RCMP. This Committee meets twice annually to review the operation of CISC and to decide on communal goals. The Director General of CISC, who heads Central Bureau, is secretary to the National Executive Committee and coordinates the efforts of all provincial bureaus in providing criminal intelligence products and services. The Directors of the Provincial Bureaus meet quarterly with the Director General of CISC to discuss organized crime issues and forward recommendations and resolutions to the Executive Committee.
Staff
The staff of Central Bureau consists of RCMP employees and secondments from other law enforcement agencies. Secondments at Central Bureau currently include: Canada Border Services Agency, Department of National Defence, Ontario Provincial Police, Ottawa Police Service, Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal and the Sûreté du Québec. CISC’s Central Bureau receives administrative and financial support from the RCMP through its National Police Services, which provides essential front-line support services to the law enforcement community in Canada and abroad.
