Program directory · Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Sensitive and Specialized Investigative Services
- Department
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Program code
- BXH05 (RCMP)
- Core responsibility
- National Specialized Services
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This Program provides direct operational support, research and subject matter expertise to the national and international law enforcement community as it pertains to crimes of interpersonal violence and missing persons. Operational support activities focus on online child sexual exploitation, missing persons and unidentified remains, truth verification, as well as transnational and high-risk child sex offences. The Program also provides oversight/management of the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR), the Missing Children/Persons Unidentified Remains (MC/PUR) database and the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS).
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitive and Specialized Investigative Services | This program | 2019-20 – 2028-29 | $103M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Indicators added: Percentage increase of Canadian victims of online child sexual exploitation identified and uploaded to INTERPOL’s International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Indicators dropped: Request for Investigative packages are completed and sent to the law enforcement agency of jurisdiction within 2 weeks of receipt | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Renamed from “Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children” to “Sensitive and Specialized Investigative Services”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
| 2021-22 | Spending $19.4M, against $12.5M in 2020-21 (+56%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ≥ 10% | 2022 | 21% | Met |
| 2022-23 | 10% increase annually | 2023 | 25% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 10% | 2024 | 16% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 10% | 2025 | 21% The percentage has increased since last year as a result of increased resources in the National Child Exploitation Crime Centre (NCECC) Victim Identification team. This statistic reflects the number of victims identified in Canada and uploaded to the International Child Exploitation (ICSE) database that were reported to the NCECC or that the NCECC could view in ICSE. This also reflects the effort… | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 80% | 2020 | — The issue in capturing the actual data resides with the deployment of the Operational Child Exploitation Analysis Network (OCEAN). Until it is fully operational nation wide, the numbers are unavailable. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 80% | 2021 | 0% Not Available The issue in capturing the actual data resides with the deployment of the Operational Child Exploitation Analysis Network (OCEAN). Until it is fully operational nation wide, the numbers are unavailable. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 10% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $13.8M | $13.8M |
| 2020-21 | $14.3M | $12.5M |
| 2021-22 | $15.6M | $19.4M |
| 2022-23 | $18M | $19.6M |
| 2023-24 | $17.9M | $17.9M |
| 2024-25 | $19.6M | $19.7M |
| 2025-26 | $23.9M | — |
| 2026-27 | $24M | — |
| 2027-28 | $24M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $21.3M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 74 | 74 |
| 2020-21 | 80 | 78 |
| 2021-22 | 100 | 87 |
| 2022-23 | 106 | 94 |
| 2023-24 | 114 | 100 |
| 2024-25 | 114 | 107 |
| 2025-26 | 118 | — |
| 2026-27 | 125 | — |
| 2027-28 | 128* | — |
| 2028-29 | 106* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $13,776,741 | $14,170,359 | $15,452,778 | |||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $14,334,643 | $15,615,458 | $16,338,988 | |||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $15,552,002 | $16,276,046 | $16,196,893 | |||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $18,011,569 | $17,334,690 | $17,254,588 | |||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $17,934,973 | $17,817,595 | $17,890,525 | |||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $19,639,465 | $19,953,406 | $20,214,478 | |||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $23,920,074 | $24,228,048 | $24,317,531 | |||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $24,040,277 | $24,030,362 | $21,317,794 | |||||||
| Actual | $13,752,452 | $12,477,284 | $19,424,041 | $19,600,807 | $17,936,327 | $19,656,505 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
