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Halifax Regional Police and Board of Police Commissioners respond to HRM Auditor General’s comments on HRP IT Audit
Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and the Board of Police Commissioners (BoPC) are issuing a response to the HRM Auditor General’s comments to BoPC on the review of KPMG’s Audit of HRP’s Information Technology undertaken in 2016.
HRP and BoPC welcome the comments, scrutiny and engagement of the Auditor General’s office on behalf of HRM citizens and take this aspect of our work very seriously. Leveraging a broad range of technologies reasonably and responsibly in support of safer and more secure communities is a key strategic priority for HRP. HRP would like to ensure citizens that we have necessary controls and practices in place today to protect citizens, however we recognize that modern policing has undergone and will continue to go through significant technological changes, of which cyber-security is a critical component of HRM’s policing service delivery. That is why we are acting thoroughly and proactively and are committed to making the necessary progress.