Ultimately, if your investigation is successful, you're going to bring charges against the individual. At that point, I suppose, as part of disclosure, the defence could ask, did you make such a report? I understand there's a description of the conduct of the police officer in the course of the investigation, and it appears he's engaged in an offence or has done something that triggers section 25.2.
So if it's not there, then I suppose it's possible, as Shawn was saying earlier, to ask the court to stay proceedings for an abuse of process. Again, it'll always be a question of the court weighing the conduct against the whole of the circumstances.
This is one thing that is stressed very much in the course of training. And I quite agree with you that it--