My last question is on the notion of circumscribing the definition of the police officer empowered, in this case, to use section 184.4, so as to limit the definition to supervisors. I don't know this part of the criminal justice system and how it works. In actual fact, you are saying a supervisor would have to become involved anyway under pretty much any circumstance.
Is it possible that in a very small number of cases this requirement could slow things down? Some have suggested that in using section 184.4, there should be a little more paperwork for the purposes of record-keeping and therefore to be able to see after the fact whether everything was properly done or was justifiable.
The court suggested, if I'm not mistaken, that it wasn't a good idea to force too much record-keeping on the police officer while he or she is implementing section 184.4, because that just slows things down, and the purpose of the section is to act quickly in exigent circumstances.
I'm wondering whether it's possible that in some cases, restricting the definition to “supervisor” could be problematic and could slow things down.
I don't know how the police work, in actual fact. I imagine all police officers, not only supervisors, are trained in wiretapping techniques. Anyway, I thought maybe you could comment on this.