Recommendations Awaiting Implementation

While addressing cases involving the conduct of individual RCMP members, the Commission also aggressively seeks to identify systemic problems that frequently are catalysts for complaints about individual members' conduct.

The Commission launched a historic number of Chair-initiated complaints in 2007-2008, creating a comprehensive factual picture of police activities and enabling the Commission to examine RCMP practices on a detachment, division and national basis.

This approach will allow the Commission to better inform the RCMP Commissioner, the Minister and the Canadian public of the true nature and scope of problems that have tended to be viewed as isolated events.

To foster greater public debate on these important issues, the Commission will continue to publish on its website all reports containing its adverse findings and its recommendations to address these findings.

Examples of the Commission's recommendations that remain outstanding include:

• Final Report on Chair-Initiated Complaint into the Shooting Death of Ian Bush – November 28, 2007
• RCMP Use of the Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW), Final Report Including Recommendations for Immediate Implementation, June 2008
• Report into Disclosure by the RCMP of its Investigation Regarding the Taxation of Income Trusts – March 31, 2008