Prior to the Bedford decision, we at the police service used to have prostitution sweeps. We would go out and basically, at that particular time, round up all of the sex trade workers, because they were on the streets providing sexual services. Then we would reintroduce our undercover officers and then arrest the johns. As a result of those, we would have john schools where there would be education sessions of I believe about five hours. It's a diversion program for somebody who is not a repeat offender.
With the example that you've given of an initiative that another police service has done, we're planning to undertake doing stuff like that. We're very much more focused at this point in establishing our unit. We anticipate doing somewhat of the same type of venture, but we're running into problems with the actual pictures being posted. You need someone's consent in order to post that picture. As a police service, you can't arbitrarily take a picture off the Internet without someone's consent.
At that particular point, I think we will most likely have a lot of success with regard to arresting the johns. The john school, for lack of a better term, is where we will be sending the males who are arrested, to a pre-charge diversion type of program. I know we're actually giving some lectures—as a matter of fact, tomorrow night. It's been a compiling of certain incidents that's necessitated us to have a john school. I believe it's the first one since the Bedford decision.