Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I'm familiar with the Prince Albert model. I would agree that it is something we certainly would consider, and are considering. I can tell you our deputy chief here in Thunder Bay is a member of our local Crime Prevention Council. It is something he will b

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I'm sure it's not just our organization, but the limitations are the resources to put towards it, and the desire from other agencies. As one of the members suggested, and as you have seen, it is much desired in other communities. As I mentioned, it is some

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, the group is the connection with all the agencies that we feel should be at the table. I used to be on the committee myself when I was the deputy chief. It's that connectivity with the other organizations and discussing the issues we're seeing that are not just polic

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I'm sorry I don't have those figures.

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, that's not something I'd want to be guessing about, so unless I had the numbers in front of me, I don't think it would be a good idea to guess.

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I believe it would certainly help, if nothing else, in building relationships with the aboriginal community. The liaison officers don't do a lot of enforcement. They are truly liaison officers who do a lot of community work. I would take any funding anybod

Public Safety committee  It's the after hours situation in which people—

Public Safety committee  Without funding to the organization to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I don't see it changing. We're a 24/7 operation and that's who gets the calls.

Public Safety committee  Here in Ontario we have a provincial strategy for most types of crimes. There needs to be more of a national strategy on this, because it is not just provincial, municipal, national, it's international, and it's growing exponentially. I met with the OPP head of that unit earlie

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I have two officers who belong to our computer crime unit who are part of the provincial strategy on child exploitation and child luring. I wouldn't say we don't have the resources of the RCMP when required, but they are not part of the task force. Certain

Public Safety committee  That would be a big help because they do have far more resources than we can ever come up with.

Public Safety committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I don't see picking up dirty needles and used needles as a police function. I would never—

Public Safety committee  I would never entertain starting a unit that was solely civilian or otherwise that was responsible as the lead agency for doing that kind of work.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, what we're seeing is that the organization, Superior Points, that runs the needle exchange program here will do that type of work during the day. They're a civilian-based agency.