Thank you.
I have just a quick question for either Acting Commissioner LaFosse or Inspector Lightfoot.
One problem we run into as politicians and as police officers when we deal with service to the people in our communities is the expectation that the officer, when he or she comes into work, is out on the road doing their job. Has your police force or any other force that you're aware of determined the amount of time spent in an office getting all of these statistics that everyone wants? Because the person who provides those statistics isn't some unknown person. It's the man or woman who wears the uniform. They actually provide the service.
Now, one complaint is that we don't see their carcass out on the road doing their job, doing the front-line policing that we expect. That is one of the issues we deal with, especially in municipal politics.
We're running out of time here, so I'll try to cut this down: have you actually done a study saying that 30 years ago a person providing police services spent x amount of hours on administrative work as compared with now? I personally can give you experiences of where police officers spend over half their time in the office providing answers to people like us just because some bad thing happened. They have literally thousands and multi-millions of dollars' worth of administrative work and are not out on the street catching bad guys.
Sorry about the diatribe, but quite frankly, it has to be put in its proper context.