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If Halifax Regional Police’s information organization skills were a desk, that desk would be piled high with mismatched papers and zero-context sticky notes. There’d be a bunch of mugs, each with a crusting ring of mold forming at different heights of abandonment, and three cell phones—one encrypted, one broken and one that primarily uses Facebook messenger to communicate with colleagues. A sock, a laptop whirring under a box of unmarked evidence shoved into Ziplock baggies with a miscellaneous USB poking out of it, and probably crumbs.
Lots of crumbs.
A recent report from HRM’s auditor general, Evangeline Colman-Sadd, paints a clear picture that Halifax Regional Police is dropping the ball on managing its information technology security risks, from technological evidence to the way information is classified and stored. This comes five years after an internal audit, brought to public attention through a freedom of information request by The Coast, found HRP was dropping the ball on managing its