Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, you have to be within physical striking distance of the individual.

Public Safety committee  We have RCMP representation on projects, but we are not part of the RCMP, no.

Public Safety committee  Yes, very much so. I guess the National Association of Medical Examiners recognizes excited delirium syndrome as a cause of death, whereas medical practitioners, psychiatrists, and others have yet to recognize it--and they may not, because when they do a physical examination of somebody in a hospital, they have a whole range of other diagnoses they can use.

Public Safety committee  There's a variety of things, everything from conversation on. When that fails, when the individual is non-responsive or continues to be violent and is a hazard to himself or to others, then you have the option of pepper spray, which is a pain compliance device. If the individual does not react to pain, then you go to others.

Public Safety committee  I have seen some studies looking at that. It is very rare that an ASP or a metal baton is used without the incidence of injury, whereas with a taser it's not as common to have an injury when it's used.

Public Safety committee  The evolving best practices are to get the subject away from the prone position as quickly as practical and also to get EMS on the scene in areas where they are in the excited delirium syndrome situation. Other than that, it's monitoring. I want to come back to your other question on Mr.

Public Safety committee  Use of force reporting is a provincial responsibility.

Public Safety committee  My understanding is that most provinces now are requiring that police services provide reports when forces use them.

Public Safety committee  No, I do not.

Public Safety committee  We agreed that it was an intermediate weapon and therefore it could fit where the police services saw was appropriate. We don't set policy ourselves; we allow the police services to do that.

Public Safety committee  Again, I haven't been tracking the outcomes of Mr. Kennedy's report; we're busily working on our own report.

Public Safety committee  That is correct.

Public Safety committee  We do not. We pay our own travel; we are very careful not to accept funding from companies for things such as travel. Normally we will buy the equipment we are evaluating and testing. Sometimes it is customer or industry supplied. We have not received any equipment from Taser International or any funding from Taser International.

Public Safety committee  We as an organization do not track the quantity of use of force, so I can't give you an accurate response.