Headline history: Canadian police information system links computers across country

Since being established in 1973, the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) has only grown, linking police, and Canadians, across the country.
In an article about the system, published in the News Bulletin on Aug. 12, 1999, it was praised for being used to return elderly and lost individuals to their families, a part of its function of sharing information between police agencies.
Some of this information includes data on all persons who are of “special interest,” including missing