RE: [gnso-whois-wg] Statement of Interest - Carole Bird

["Carole Bird" <Carole.Bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am Officer in Charge, Program Management Support Services, Technological 
Crime Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

The RCMP is the Canadian national police service and an agency of the Ministry 
of Public Safety Canada.  It operates as a national, federal, provincial and 
municipal policing body providing a total federal policing service to all 
Canadians and policing services under contract to the three territories, eight 
provinces (excluding Ontario and Quebec), more than 200 municipalities, 165 
Aboriginal communities, three international airports and numerous smaller 
airports.  In total we have approx.17,000 police officers within the RCMP. 

My interest in working with this group is to ensure that police have access to 
the Whois data so that when individuals or companies report a crime we have 
sufficient information to determine the jurisdiction of the offence (and 
therefore the appropriate investigative agency) and to begin an investigation.  
Regardless of the nature of the crime: - child sexual abuse, human trafficking, 
national security, commercial crime (including fraud), technological crime, 
copyright/intellectual property offences, identity theft, organized crime, etc, 
 each can be significantly affected by whatever changes are implemented to the 
current whois structure/data.