PIP & PSP

Each individual Police Partner Agency (PPA) determines what information their agency will publish to the PIP. This information will then be available for query by authorized users through the Police information Portal (PIP) and Public Safety Portal (PSP). All RCMP officers and PROS PPA’s can access PIP directly from their Records Management System (PROS).

Police Information Portal
The Police Information Portal (PIP) is an information sharing tool used by Canadian Police Agencies and managed by the RCMP. The PIP is a national index of persons and vehicles containing information submitted by Police Partner Agencies across Canada. The PIP provides users with the ability to query an index of published data from participating Police Partner Agencies in a single consolidated search, including:

• The Police Reporting and Occurrence System (PROS)
• The Police Information Retrieval System (PIRS) (BC occurrences only)
• The Police Records Information Management Environment (PRIME)
• Police Regional Information and Data Entry (PRIDE)
• Ontario Police Technology Information Cooperative (OPTIC)
• Index général (Québec)
• 170 other agencies

Search query results provide users with the ability to obtain additional information through accessible “hyperlinks” ("Get Details" button on PROS) or to request a report directly from the originating Police Partner Agency. Since each Police Partner Agency determines what information is published to the PIP, all PIP users must verify information and obtain authorization before using any information on PIP provided by Police Partner Agencies.

When querying persons and vehicles using the PIP, query results will typically provide users with information relating to:

• General Occurrences
• Street Checks
• Traffic Tickets
• Mug shots

Police Services Currently Publishing to PIP:
A current listing of who is publishing to the PIP is available by request.

Public Safety Portal
The Public Safety Portal (PSP) provides Public Safety Agencies such as FINTRAC and the Parole Board of Canada with the ability to simultaneously search Police information based on their legislated mandate and legal authority. PSP filters information from the PIP ensuring that the Public Safety Agencies are provided only with information that they are legally entitled to access. These filters are called Governance Based Access Controls (GBAC).