Description: At all levels of government, the RCMP and other Canadian police forces address cybercrime within the boundaries of Canada’s legal environment, which includes a combination of jurisprudence, legislation, public policies, and other legal and policy instruments. While the RCMP Cybercrime Strategy focuses on strengthening the RCMP’s posture against cybercrime within today’s legal environment, it is clear that Canada’s legal and public policy regime will need to keep pace with the evolution of technology to permit the effective investigation of cybercrime, both domestically and internationally. The RCMP will continue to support Canada’s modernization of criminal offences and investigative tools to better address crime in a digital age. The RCMP will also engage Canada’s criminal justice community and identify requirements for educating prosecutors on cybercrime investigations and the novel legal aspects of cybercrime. Action Item 15. Continue to work with the broader Canadian law enforcement community to devise a ‘national’ picture of - and response to - cybercrime. Links to operational framework: P2; O6; E4 Sucess Indicators Planned Timeline Ongoing. - Provide a leadership role in developing a framework for a ‘national’ law enforcement strategy to combat cybercrime. - Identify actions that could be taken by all Canadian police forces to more effectively address cybercrime. Description: Cybercrime represents a shared and common threat to all levels of policing in Canada, and requires collaboration between the RCMP and its Canadian law enforcement partners. To address this requirement, the RCMP and its Canadian law enforcement partners, through the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Electronic Crime Committee, and other fora, continue to discuss and develop coordinated, national law enforcement approaches to combat cybercrime. Consistent with this approach, the RCMP will use the RCMP Cybercrime Strategy as a basis to lead the development of broader national law enforcement strategies against cybercrime, including measures to develop a broader account of cybercrime based on aggregated police data, and to identify and improve shared, multi-jurisdictional law enforcement operations, collaboration and deconfliction measures against cybercrime. The RCMP will also engage other key stakeholders, such as the National Police Services National Advisory Committee and the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group, Cyber Crime Working Group, to fully examine operational requirements for a national law enforcement strategy to combat cybercrime. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cybercrime Strategy 19