The number of inquiries through the centre is escalating on a continual basis. Today the centre is queried approximately 6,500 times a day, and it's going up. The centre provides important information to police officers in the field for investigative purposes, and it also assists them in ensuring they take measures to protect their own safety when they're going into premises where it's known that firearms are located. So it goes on and on.
Through the licensing process the program also carries with it a need for training and preventative measures that people are made aware of as they go through the training process. So it's quite a rigorous undertaking.
The benefits of the centre are enormous. We have examples of where the centre has been beneficial. The less tangible, the preventative maintenance aspect of this, is a little bit more difficult to pin down in very specific terms, but the fact that people can get in there, that members of police agencies right across Canada are querying the centre on an increasing basis day after day is evidence of how important they consider the centre to be.