Performance Reporting — Continued

Goal 1: Adequate, effective, accountable policing and law enforcement throughout British Columbia

Objective	Strategy
Enhance effectiveness of police agencies through technological, structural and operational changes	Focus on critical infrastructure, specialized police services, and strategic planning

Adequate, effective and accountable policing and law enforcement is a key goal for Police Services. This goal is directly linked to the core business area's objective of enhancing the effectiveness of police agencies through technological, structural and operational changes. In turn, achieving this objective is predicated on having critical infrastructure in place to most effectively meet the needs of police agencies throughout the province.

Performance Measure	2001/02 Actual	2002/03 Target	2002/03 Actual
Infrastructure projects initiated	1 project piloted	1 project initiated	1 project initiated  Target met

The initiation of infrastructure projects was identified as an indicator of achievement of the strategy of focusing on critical infrastructure, specialized police services, and strategic planning. The target set for the 2002/03 fiscal year was met with the initiation of the PRIME-BC pilot project.

Piloted in 2002/03 in three police departments (Vancouver, Port Moody and Richmond), PRIME has moved British Columbia toward sharing information across police jurisdictional boundaries through the consolidation of the information management systems used daily by police.

Sharing information across police jurisdictional boundaries is significant because criminal activity is not restricted to such boundaries. PRIME provides for the exchange of investigational and public safety related information across jurisdictional boundaries, within minutes.

As it is implemented throughout the province, PRIME will ensure that all police departments in B.C. have the same information reporting and crime analysis capabilities, and that police at all levels are able to access the information they need in the most efficient and expedient manner to make the best public safety and investigative decisions possible.