Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I would say the work that we did on the taser last time...because we used a committee that came up and did peer review research that included scientists, medical practitioners, and others. In that case, it wasn't published in an established journal. We had our own peer revie

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The review, the comments, and the recommendations that we made in the report went through a review committee of scientists and researchers, so they did have that independent oversight, a peer review, if you wish to call it that.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, you're right. It would take a consistent agreement negotiated at the Solicitor General level, I suspect, among all provinces, to get the information and establish the reporting systems, etc., to bring it all in on a consistent basis. They are used, but it's not the principal

Public Safety committee  As an organization, we have no legislative authority, no.

Public Safety committee  That's the information that is probably already captured by police services. Again, I'm not sure whose jurisdiction it falls into, whether it's federal or provincial, in tracking statistics. But it's certainly not the Police Research Centre's position or responsibility to demand

Public Safety committee  We do not have those statistics identifying what the injury rate was prior to the use of tasers and what it currently is. It is one of the areas we are seeking information on to see whether we can capture that information in time for our report in August.

Public Safety committee  That's one area we're going to be looking at in our study as well. Again, there are a few older studies out there and a couple of newer ones that do address this, not necessarily broadly but by individual police services.

Public Safety committee  In the 2005 study, we did not do any human or animal testing ourselves. We reviewed literature.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  They're certainly tracking those statistics.

Public Safety committee  Quite honestly, I believe they would.

Public Safety committee  There may be some, but I'm not aware of any. Studies I've seen have looked at the mechanical electrical characteristics of the device in cold weather.