Alberta had its first DRE course in November of last year. There were 24 candidates. Nine of them were from the Edmonton Police Service, and the rest were from around the province, including the RCMP. The majority of those were from non-major centres.
It's going to be a problem until we have capacity. If we were starting off with the breath testing program, we'd have the same problems. We essentially have to look at where the largest problem is right now, that being the major centres and the highways that are the busiest, before we get to the rural areas. And of course, if the RCMP are policing it, there is always the possibility that we'd put somebody in there and get them trained and then they would get transferred.
So,in the short term, the smaller centres and the three territories in particular will probably not get that many people trained, just because of how we have to prioritize things.