This practice has been well under way in many police forces. In the RCMP it started probably five or six years ago. A good example is that my good colleague, Mr. Adam Palmer, was the chief of police in Vancouver for 10 years. He is well respected in Canadian law enforcement, as well as in international law enforcement. I'm happy to have him in charge of this whole new recruiting transformation.
As I said, we offer certain opportunities that other police forces, because of their size and because of the mandate, are not exposed to. This in itself is attractive to some of the people. Again, in the last couple of years we're averaging anywhere from between about 100 to 150 coming to join the RCMP. Adam can get into the details of what takes place once they come in. There is a training process. We've expanded this to peace officers. Peace officers would be sheriffs, marshals, conservation officers, fisheries officers and CBSA officers. We want to bring a breadth of diversity and experience into the organization.