Ms. Kathy Thompson at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On September 27th, 2017. See this statement in context.

September 27th, 2017 / 4:45 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Community Safety and Countering Crime Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Kathy Thompson

By year five. The five-year funding was announced on September 8, so within five years we will augment that number to approximately 750 to 800.

I think the number you may have been thinking about is the number for what we call SFSTs, standard field sobriety tests. We're so used to acronyms in the federal government. We currently have approximately 3,400 SFSTs, and you heard the number who are in the RCMP, which represents about 15% of front-line officers, and we will grow that number to about 50% by year five.

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