Mr. Chair, I believe there are two questions. For one the answer would be that as a matter of policy an individual department can decide the scope of when it would like that check to occur. That's one. In the other case, there are many checks, no matter what the incident, that are conducted on behalf of that police officer, for which he gives inherent trust to that communications operator, who will make a series of checks for his personal safety or for that of the public. A series of checks is conducted on every incident; in most cases the police officer doesn't ask for that entire series. Those are policy issues and operational issues that are joined up by that department.
On September 26th, 2006. See this statement in context.