The project to deploy armed officers is one that will span approximately ten years in total. At this stage we're into starting our third year, and we have about 720 officers deployed with weapons. The bulk of them are at the border, but some of them are inland officials. These would be officers who would deal with a lot of the cases we're responding to here.
So when people go to a residence to find somebody who may be there, arrest them and remove them, often times there can be some difficulty and occasionally some violence that's associated with that. So we are interested in making sure that as we deploy the weapons over the coming years we have a good blend between front-line officers and inland enforcement officers.
I think I can tell you that we are on time and on budget in terms of the deployment schedule. We are often asked why is it taking so long. Part of the reason is that in the fullness of time we'll arm approximately 4,800 officers, but in order to train them we have to bring them off the front line, send them for significant firearms training, use-of-force training, make sure that they pass the appropriate qualifications, and then get them their weapon and deploy them.
We cannot remove officers from the line in huge numbers, obviously. We are doing that in a very systematic way that responds, we think, to prudent risk management but also ensures that the highest-risk ports and the highest-risk areas of our program get the weapons first.