It's okay, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for being here.
I'll try not to be overly redundant in some of these questions. I think all of you understand who has been briefed at the leader level and what they understand. The issue is how that is disseminated downward to the policeman on the ground. This is something where each individual has a different level of understanding, for whatever reason, and not all briefings are necessarily the same.
Do you have an SOP? I know it's in a book, but people don't always read that. Do you have a simple SOP? What we used to do in the army is provide soldiers with a card for rules of engagement, and things like that. This would be besides the little book with pictures of MPs, which is great.
To the chair's point, in this case the cop didn't care. He just stated that. The question is whether he was augmenting people on the Hill and whether he was familiar with the procedures on the Hill. That kind of thing needs to be addressed. Anybody who is being posted into some of these roles, even for a short time, could at least be given a little card indicating the SOPs or rules of engagement, that kind of thing, in order to address a situation very quickly—rule one, two, three, four, five, and so on.
The other issue is that the attitude of the individual involved also needs to be checked. Probably from the leader level down, there needs to be a little bit of counselling for that particular officer. He's on the Hill. He's in a different environment. He may not necessarily be in the community he was accustomed to.
We've had a lot of these visits. Right now we're talking about two incidents, but are there more incidents? How many visits do we have, major visits of VIPs and world leaders?