Public Safety committee  If we were requested to do that, certainly we could take the information from the police services, tabulate it, and provide such a report.

Public Safety committee  Excited delirium is a set of symptoms that can be severe agitation, sweating, violent behaviour, and the inability to process signals and respond to commands and questions from a police officer or anyone else. We consider it a medical emergency, and I think one of the greatest successes since our last report was the police community and the emergency medical services community starting to work together and treating this as an emergency, and we're starting to see lives saved.

Public Safety committee  In our report, when we looked at it, we didn't make any stipulation based on the peer review one way or the other on excited delirium. It is seen as an effective tool in rapidly subduing somebody in that state. So we didn't comment against it.

Public Safety committee  The Canadian Police Research Centre is a federal government organization. We receive all of our funding from the federal government.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Steve Palmer. I've been with the Canadian Police Research Centre for 10 years. I started as director in 1998 and took over the position of executive director in 2004. For 29 years now, CPRC has been providing leadership in the search for real-life solutions to a wide range of threats to the safety and security of communities and of the first responders who serve them.