News Release
Commissionaires Selected by RCMP to Help With Enhanced Fingerprint Identification Service
January 19, 2006, Ottawa, ON - Canada’s police forces and public security community will soon benefit from new technology that is currently being developed by the RCMP. As a leader in providing fingerprinting services across Canada, the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires has engaged with the RCMP to implement an enhanced fingerprint identification service.
The Commissionaires Canada will participate in the RCMP’s Real Time Identification (RTID) pilot project, which begins this June and is scheduled for full implementation in late fall 2006. The RTID Project is a new fingerprint record repository service that will allow the RCMP to provide immediate criminal record updates, and comprehensive information to our country’s police and security services.
Commissionaires Ottawa will serve as the pilot project Lead Division on behalf of the entire Commissionaires Canada network of offices.
Paul Guindon, CEO of Commissionaires Ottawa, says, “The fingerprint identification services that we provide to police and security agencies have become increasingly important in this post-9/11 world. As this pilot project will demonstrate, the new technology will ensure we can provide fingerprint records quickly and with more detailed information.”
Mr. Guindon adds, “Commissionaires are very pleased to be part of this significant RCMP project.”
With annual sales exceeding $310 million and a workforce of over 18,000 security professionals, the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires is Canada’s largest, best trained and most experienced full-service security organization. Across the country, over 30 Commissionaires Canada locations – managed by seventeen regional divisions – provide Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) background checks, child identification services, mobile/on-site identification services, as well as fingerprint services for foreign visa, citizenship and security form applications.
For over 80 years, commissionaires have been providing a wide range of security support and services to governments, businesses and institutions from Newfoundland to British Columbia. In addition to a wide range of security guard and fingerprint identification services, commissionaires are also called on to provide monitoring and mobile alarm response, training and administrative services, as well as anti-counterfeiting technologies and auditing services.
Full information on the Commissionaires’ membership and services can be found on their website at www.commissionaires.ca.
For further information, or to arrange an interview with CEO Paul Guindon, call:
Cheryl Fifer,
Director of Business Development, Marketing and Sales
Commissionaires Ottawa
T 613 231 6462 E 407
cfifer@commissionaires-ottawa.on.ca
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