One of the things the committee needs to understand is the level of frustration that police officers experience. You're talking about officers with extensive investigative background in our homicide units. There are many cases when they know who committed the crime, but they are not able to charge the person because they do not have people coming forward. This has been expressed to us time and time again. They know who it was, they can't prove it, and they don't have the reasonable grounds to bring it before the courts. If something is in place to create trust in the system, we will be able to put more of these people behind bars.
On May 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.