CPIC IT Sub-Committee

The IT Sub-Committee is a successor to the Interface Sub-Committee which had been created in 1972 by the CPIC Advisory Committee (A/C). The IT Sub-Committee was formed by the members of the CPIC A/C during their November 1996 meeting in Ottawa. Members of the A/C were asked to identify representatives for the IT Sub-Committee. A CPI Centre technical representative was also identified. The establishment of the IT Sub-Committee was approved by the CPIC Advisory Committee in January 1997, to ensure appropriate technical input from federal, provincial and municipal law enforcement agencies in the operation of CPIC. It was agreed by the A/C that the IT Sub-Committee could strike its own Chair and that a representative from CPI Centre would sit on it as a liaison between the Sub-Committee and CPI Centre.

Mandate and Responsibilities

The Information Technology Sub-Committee is a sub-committee under the direction of the CPIC Advisory Committee. It is responsible for recommending the IT policies to the CPIC Advisory Committee and setting standards and parameters, including security and network security, inter-connectivity protocol and data sharing standards to the CPIC system for all agencies and to review and recommend information technology standards for the Canadian law enforcement community as it relates to the CPIC system and NPSNet.

Scope

The IT Sub-Committee:

• Develops and recommends policy with respect to connectivity, security, infrastructure and standards related to the CPIC System.
  
  
• Reviews and addresses technological concerns related to all aspects of networked access to NPSNet, LANS, WANS, and / or Mobile Work Stations, Mobile Data Terminals, and mobile Intelligent Terminals;
  
  
• Provides ongoing technical advice around technical options to assist in implementing new business requirements.
  
  
• Recommends to the CPIC Advisory Committee as to the acceptability of a request by an approved Agency to interface to CPIC and also interconnect, e.g., WAN to WAN and LAN to WAN. Such recommendations(s) would include as a minimum: a technical assessment, and a security assessment. The IT Sub-Committee may give interim approval on these requests.