Since the very beginning, when the conducted energy weapon was approved, when we first began training, it was the very same message. The conducted energy weapon for the RCMP has never been a replacement to lethal force. So where an officer or multiple officers have to respond to a situation and the result of the current assessment is that the client or clients offer a potential to cause death or grievous bodily harm, the conducted energy weapon is not an option. There's nothing sure about the deployment of a conducted energy weapon, especially when a situation is dynamic. When it's dynamic, quite often the deployment will fail, which puts the officer at risk.
In order to maximize the success of a deployment, we need to cope with a person who is static. As I explained earlier, I assume a probe missed its point of impact or is embedded in loose clothing to the point where there is no circuit completed. There is no effect, so the client can close that distance in a very short period of time with a knife or a baseball bat or a weapon system that can cause death, putting the officer at risk. That's why it's never been the intent of the RCMP to introduce or approve that weapon system as a replacement for lethal force.