Action Item 5. Expand cybercrime investigative training opportunities for Canadian law enforcement Links to operational framework: P3; O9; E1 Sucess Indicators - Develop and implement new cybercrime investigative courses for law enforcement. - Expand basic and advanced cybercrime investigative skills across Canada. Planned Timeline Ramp-up: 2015-17. Full implementation: 2017 and ongoing. Description: Criminal investigators and intelligence analysts require basic and advanced training in new and emerging technologies to keep pace with cybercrime. To address this requirement, the RCMP will improve its law enforcement training for cybercrime-related matters by providing new cybercrime investigative and intelligence training opportunities for the RCMP and its provincial and municipal law enforcement partners. The RCMP provides law enforcement training on cybercrime investigative and intelligencegathering techniques through the Canadian Police College, Technological Crime Learning Institute (TCLI). The TCLI is the only institute in Canada that offers a comprehensive cybercrime training program for law enforcement on various cybercrime investigative techniques. Through the TCLI, the RCMP will develop and implement new courses on digital and mobile device analysis, and Internet-based open source and online covert investigative techniques, areas in high demand from Canadian law enforcement agencies. 6. Examine ways to more effectively recruit cybercrime investigators and other individuals with technical skills to combat cybercrime. Links to operational framework: P2; P3; O4; O5; O9; E1 - Develop a strategy to more effectively recruit cybercrime investigators, intelligence analysts and other individuals with technical skills to combat cybercrime. - Consider cyber recruitment strategies by other government organizations. Ongoing. Description: Cybercrime investigations are often complex, long-running and require individuals with highly specialized and technical skills, such as advanced proficiencies in computer science and network engineering, and other technical domain areas. To address this requirement, the RCMP will examine its existing recruitment strategies for police officers and civilians, and will consider new recruitment tactics to better attract and retain individuals with technical domain expertise in cyber technologies. Recruitment strategies may include examining international recruitment models and other ways to reform cyber recruitment measures, such as considering: the United States, Department of Homeland Security, Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative; the United Kingdom’s Joint Cyber Reserve; developing targeted recruitment campaigns aimed at academic institutions that specialize in computing or similar technological fields; promoting immediate cybercrime investigative training opportunities for new RCMP Cadets; or taking part in broader recruitment initiatives within the government’s cyber community. 14 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cybercrime Strategy