The understanding I have is that the average, specific to sidearm training for police officers, equates to roughly 40 hours, or two weeks. The CBSA is contemplating three weeks in order to add this customized element to it. Now, I don't pretend to be an expert by any definition, but this has most, if not all, of the experts to whom I brought this up raising their eyebrows as to how you get into a dimension where you justify an additional week for these officers.
If you ask me, from what I have gathered from the experts, it should be two weeks. The CBSA is hard set on making it a three-week course, and they are in the process of developing that. I have difficulty understanding...because you have to keep in mind that as part of the same decision of the government, they are also going to arm inland investigators, inland regional intelligence officers, as well as inland immigration enforcement officers.
The immigration people are the ones who go and knock on doors to tell people that they're coming to take them away and bring them back to their country. They work under very dangerous situations. They get into even more than the people at the border, exactly the same situations as a police officer. Why you would have to modify the course, knowing people like that are also going to be taking the same course, is also something that I'm still not able to understand.